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In reply to the discussion: Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes [View all]workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)43. Anti pot story brought to you by alcohol companies, bars and other legal death dealers
Using marijuana a few times a week is enough to physically alter critical brain structures, according to a new study published Tuesday in The Journal of Neuroscience.
"Just casual use appears to create changes in the brain in areas you don't want to change,"
Well thank God we still got alcohol and cigarettes to fall back on.
Oh wait..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/drunken-driving-statistics/2013/12/30/1259bcb2-6ca1-11e3-aecc-85cb037b7236_story.html
Drunk driving deaths
2011: 9,865
2012: 10,322
Increase: 4.6 percent
(Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Number of drivers who say they may have been over the .08 legal limit in the past year: one in five
(Source: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety)
Number of people killed in drunk driving crashes in New Years 2013: 140
Number expected to be killed this New Years: 156
(Sources: Mothers Against Drunk Driving & National Safety Council)
http://www.ncadd.org/index.php/in-the-news/155-25-million-alcohol-related-deaths-worldwide-annually
2.5 Million Alcohol-Related Deaths Worldwide- Annually
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/alcohol-causes-20000-cancer-deaths-in-the-us-annually/
Alcohol causes 20,000 cancer deaths in the U.S. annually
http://www.cancer.org/aboutus/globalhealth/globaltobaccocontrol/the-global-tobacco-epidemic
Did you know that, around the world...?
One billion people smoke cigarettes.
Half of cigarette users will die because they smoke.
Six million people die every year because of tobacco. This figure includes five million smokers, but also about 600,000 non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke.
Meanwhile NO ONE EVER DIED FROM SMOKING POT! It is also a miracle cure for some diseases and a major help in others that keeps people from becoming pill junkies on dangerous legal narcotics. So lets review...Big Pharmacy, Big Tobacco, Big Booze are all against pot plus the prison industry who wants to fill beds and of course police who want to lock up poor minority kids for the most part. I mean hell its way easier busting peaceful harmless kids for pot than going after real dangerous criminals eh?
"Just casual use appears to create changes in the brain in areas you don't want to change,"
Well thank God we still got alcohol and cigarettes to fall back on.
Oh wait..
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/drunken-driving-statistics/2013/12/30/1259bcb2-6ca1-11e3-aecc-85cb037b7236_story.html
Drunk driving deaths
2011: 9,865
2012: 10,322
Increase: 4.6 percent
(Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Number of drivers who say they may have been over the .08 legal limit in the past year: one in five
(Source: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety)
Number of people killed in drunk driving crashes in New Years 2013: 140
Number expected to be killed this New Years: 156
(Sources: Mothers Against Drunk Driving & National Safety Council)
http://www.ncadd.org/index.php/in-the-news/155-25-million-alcohol-related-deaths-worldwide-annually
2.5 Million Alcohol-Related Deaths Worldwide- Annually
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/alcohol-causes-20000-cancer-deaths-in-the-us-annually/
Alcohol causes 20,000 cancer deaths in the U.S. annually
http://www.cancer.org/aboutus/globalhealth/globaltobaccocontrol/the-global-tobacco-epidemic
Did you know that, around the world...?
One billion people smoke cigarettes.
Half of cigarette users will die because they smoke.
Six million people die every year because of tobacco. This figure includes five million smokers, but also about 600,000 non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke.
Meanwhile NO ONE EVER DIED FROM SMOKING POT! It is also a miracle cure for some diseases and a major help in others that keeps people from becoming pill junkies on dangerous legal narcotics. So lets review...Big Pharmacy, Big Tobacco, Big Booze are all against pot plus the prison industry who wants to fill beds and of course police who want to lock up poor minority kids for the most part. I mean hell its way easier busting peaceful harmless kids for pot than going after real dangerous criminals eh?
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What does legality have anything to do with one drug being more destructive than another .... ?
MindMover
Apr 2014
#73
I rec'd your OP not because I agree with the study, but because I agree with this:
scarletwoman
Apr 2014
#10
Actually, no. I quit several times for years because of kids, jobs, schedules, etc.
mountain grammy
Apr 2014
#67
Unless it's that cheap $10/oz crap we used to buy across the border. Then maybe not.
jtuck004
Apr 2014
#19
I remember all the Reader's Digest articles citing a constant stream of studies showing all sorts of
byronius
Apr 2014
#41
Anti pot story brought to you by alcohol companies, bars and other legal death dealers
workinclasszero
Apr 2014
#43
Don't forget the petroleum,cotton and logging industries.They made sure it became illegal in the 1st
judesedit
Apr 2014
#62
I'm sure it's possible that this is true. But it seems minor compared to the side effects of...
DesertDiamond
Apr 2014
#48
That's bs. Pot smokers miss less work, are more productive & get more promotions according to other
judesedit
Apr 2014
#61
I'm surprised that a mainstream outlet actually published Gerdeman's point,
BlancheSplanchnik
Apr 2014
#83
This is just blatant misinformation/exaggeration and is what the prohibitionists want ...
MindMover
Apr 2014
#127