There probably wasn't much more he could say about it, except to possibly warn her of dangers from it's use, and if he personally didn't find any danger in the "self medicating", then he really couldn't speak out against it. . .
I think so, and I don't think the doctor wanted to openly tell my aunt to continue to do something illegal either.
In California you can get a medical marijuana card. A friend that lives in Marietta has one. He says the store to get it is pretty cool. You can get it in all different forms like in candy or pills. They also have different kinds and different strengths.
Also unlike other drugs and alcohol, the duration of the effect of marijuana is about two hours with no lag or ill effects afterwards. Taking drugs such as Prozac can have a profound effect when the patient stops taking the drug.
Yes I have cronic cluster migranes. My doctor asked me if I smoked maijuana and I told him that I did at times. He asked me if it helped. I told him that it did for awhile but once it was out of my system it was worse. I had to keep smoking until the episode of the migrane was over.
I had severe nausea once when I was in my early twenties and decided to self medicate with marijuana, a known anti-nauseant. This could have caused serious harm, and possibly even killed me. As the severe nausea was a result of acute food poisoning. Suppressing the nausea counteracts the bodies natural process of vomiting to rid the body of the toxins. The food poisoning was from a Burger King double cheeseburger. I know this because of the way I was assaulted biologically within an hour of ingesting the burger. Just an example of self medicating gone wrong. What happened was a stop in the 15 minute vomit cycles I was experiencing followed by a sudden rise in fever. Luckily the realization of the mistake I was making dawned on me before I continued to smoke. I have heard of similar escalations of illness due to marijuana smoking in cases wherein people had acute alcohol poisoning. Durrrrr.....
The last time I smoked pot... (like the 5th time ever and like 3 or more years ago) it made me puke... I think i just smoked too much too fast and it was too strong. I never really got into it like some people I know.
Yep. It can do that. Especially if you aren't tolerant to it and/or you smoke too much and/or it is a very strong strain. That is why I laugh at the idiots that claim marijuana doesn't effect driving skills. I'm all for marijuana, but at least people should be realistic and honest when supporting it.
It's definitely an intoxicant. If it were made legal, they'd have to put the same types of laws on it as the ones that are on Alcohol.
Yeah because I don't do it daily and really not that often, I can only handle like a half a puff. If I do more I get paranoid. It amazing how much daily users can smoke.
I could never understand the morons (usually teenagers) bragging about how much they can and have smoked...all I can think is.. damn fool, you done wasted your money. But NOOOO, it's so cool that little Suzie can smoke all night long... wow.. yeah... impressive.. Sorry little Suzie, I hate to break the news to you, but if your smoking a damn 8th a night or more, your tolerance is too high. Someone who is actually using it to medicate themselves knows damn well a couple hits and you should be good for the whole damn night. And the ones who are doing it all the time, make it very apparent... I'm sorry but weed DOES make you stupid. You can take almost any given self proclaimed pot head teen and see how much dumber they are even when NOT high. I had no problems with the teens I had working for me that were stoners though. My rule was basically, I really don't give a damn what they are doing with their personal lives, but if I smell it on them, or see bloodshot eyes just once... ADIOS. Of course, this usually meant that I could expect several of them calling in "SICK", which more then likely meant a weed hangover, or they had plans to party some more and didn't feel like coming in. But when they did work, they all did a real good job. . .
Nuh uh it don't be not makes me stupids. Actually, if you smoke heavily it will make you act stupid, temporarily. There is no evidence that heavy pot smoking makes you permanently "dumb". Overdosing on dopamines will make you dopey for as long as one continues to over-smoke. I have a good friend that is incredibly intelligent, however he smokes very heavily, everyday. In school he was in the top 5 percentile in the state of Indiana. He is still very intelligent. We will watch Jeopardy and he just spits answers like he's reading from a cheat sheet. Although his short term memory is stunted to say the least. He forgets things that he says. He forgets things that I say. Ask him to grab a pencil, he walks 15 feet, stops, turns around "Hee hee uhhh what did I get up for"? The big difference between a drunk and a pothead is that a pot head knows he/she is acting dumb, and a drunk doesn't realize it.
I posted a couple studies early in the conversation that did prove a connection to slower learning and poor performance with long time pot smokers even when not stoned. I am sure there are exceptions, but the average is what were talking about. Knowing it or not mens little if their still acting stupid. In fact, knowing your acting stupid and still doing it is a tad worse if you ask me.
My personal experience is that there is only a noticeable detrimental learning effect, in relation to marijuana, when teens and young adults use pot. This is due to the interference in cognitive learning and memory retention. Fact is that many regular pot smokers are very intelligent. Professors and the like. Marijuana also contributes greatly to the arts. I disagree. Some people are just stupid, this includes some pot smokers. People that make the choice to smoke pot all the time are generally stupid and often make stupid decisions concerning all sorts of matters. Stupid people do stupid things. Smart people can not only function at a high level when smoking, but benefit from it. At the end of the day, after the tussle of work and all that goes with it, I enjoy and benefit greatly from spending a few hours gettin stupid. Quite therapeutic if you ask me. To give some focus to this discussion, why, exactly, do you think that marijuana should be illegal? Why do you think we should imprison pot smokers? Why should we wage war on a plant that makes people feel better?
Gotta disagree dude. Stay off of weed for a long... and I mean long time, and your head starts to clear more then ever. I have no objections what so ever of it being legalized, but I'm not gonna call it the one and only all powerful great substance that I can glorify. Weed slows down the stimulation in the place scientists are trying to regulate for us as we speak: Scientists discover way to reverse loss of memory - Science, News - Independent.co.uk A vital function and one that is vibrant in a teen/young adult. I contend marijuana should not be used during those important years because of the memory and learning potential that needs to be stored. After college though..... bring on the bong and lets get down to life !! That switch that weed turns off in our brains does eventually turn on again by abstaining. . .
Well we combine your own words here to the many studies saying pot impares learning and we have reason for concern right? I am sure changing your state of mind with any substance (I would think acid to be best) could help creativity in the arts, to a certain degree at least. As far as being stupid, a lot of very smart and successful people have fallen for the use of drugs. I remember one NASA engineer that I spoke with at a shooting competition held at Florida State Prison. He was an inmate who was one of the guys keeping up the grounds. At the firing range. He was in for cocain related charges, so even smart people do stupid things like get involved with drugs. Some people are just smart too and a very smart person can also stand some dumming down from drugs and function, all that tells me is they may be able to do much more if they were not crippling themselves. An addict will always make excuses for his drug abuse, even tell himself his abuse is beneficial to him in some way. Some people find it therapeutic to beat their wives at the end of a difficult day as well, it does not mean it is the right thing to do. I have already covered this in this thread but in short, let's look at it this way. You admitted you will not allow your "friends" to be around your daughter because they cannot be trusted. If even you, the most responsible pot smoker I have ever heard of (if your being honest) cannot find beter friends than that to smoke with, then clearly the majority of pot smopkers are very bad people. You also admit it is the youth that is most affected by the negative learning effects of pot and being as out youth is already far behind most other modern societies in education, I see no reason to put more barriers to learning out there as an acceptable thing. The cost to society of the one legal recreational drug we have (Booze) is so large it is impossible to even put a dollar about to it. The domino effect of ruined lives is without reasonable comparison to any other problem. Even with drugs being illegal, people are still overcomming their fear of the law to throw their lives away so if we remove that barrier, it will simply get worse. Most of the reason excess drinking is such a problem in society is because it is accepted as okay. The second you give pot, cocain, or any other recreational drug the same status of accepted, you will see the same or worse abuse with them. There have been clear successes in fighting the war on drugs to our children, and just like anything else that is worth doing, this will be a long tough battle. Our children showing clear reduced use shows a generational improvement, even if we cannot have much improvement at the shorter terms. Lastly, I have real problems with people having mental disorders and not getting the proper treatment. Treating the symptoms of depression, is not curing the depression. Mental problems are every bit, or more, important as other medical needs. You would not try to remove your own gall bladder would you? No, because even if your a trained doctor, treating yourself removes your objectivity. Treating your own mental illness is impossible because your looking at yourself through the eyes of depression or other problems and your vision will not be clear.
I agree that any sort of teen drug use is wholly negative. When I started using drugs at 14 my life took a sudden noticeable downturn. And it definitely wasn't a coincidence. What I don't believe is that casual pot smoking has a serious effect on the memory or cognitive abilities of adults. Minor at best. I stopped smoking pot for the better part of 2 months and I can't say I noticed any improvement in memory. Nothing positive or negative came of it. Only that I wasn't partaking in something that I enjoy because some old wrinkly balls son of a bitch's on Capitol Hill say I can't. While I'm stoned, yes I feel slower and less quick witted. But I don't smoke under some guise that I might be extra intelligent or increasingly smart. I smoke to relax. I smoke to chill and slow down. Being that I'm a high strung individual with a mad crazy metabolism, I feel a stark benefit from smoking.
So you agree we need to protect children from pot? The same guys say cocain is bad and things like murder is wrong. Pot does effect memory and motivation in the average person. Those who use pot tend to be unsavery people (even you admit your pot friends cannot be trusted around your child). There is no redeeming quality for recreational drugs to society. And this is the point, your slowed down and you use pot in lower quantities than the average pot head. The effect is greater in the average user. Many studies show the slowed mental state can last many months after use is stopped. Again, we are already behing in education compared to all other modern nations. We are in line to a point and suddenly out kids stop being motivated to educate themselves, why add to this problem?
No, we don't. Society has no business regulating my pot use. You are aware that many people dont care to strive for their ultimate success in life. Which often results in a laborious stressful existence behind a desk and away from their family and friends. In short, sometimes settling for less the maximum "success" in life results in an increased happiness and far less stress. Making for a far more enjoyable existence. *Scratches head..."HUH"? Remember, when I gauge the "righteousness" of any personal activity I do so on a barometer that measures how much said activity effects others. No I didn't. I said that my friends like to carry pot on their person and I am not going to create conditions for their appearance at my home. I don't hang with my friends when my daughter is around mainly because I devote 100% attention to my kid when I have her. Maybe if the laws of this land weren't so crooked as to make me out to be a villain because some guy near me has a plant rolled up in a cigarette in his pocket and he's near my kid, I wouldn't restrain the two worlds from meeting. In reality, it is no more harmful than a friend coming over with a beer in his pocket. But my crooked society says that pot is evil and I am as well if I allow it to be anywhere near my kid. A stereotype based on lies. Propaganda is the only reason you have to believe such foolish things. There are alot of things that kids shouldn't do. Making these things illegal does nothing to protect our kids. Kids shouldn't drive cars. Kids shouldn't smoke cigarettes. Kids shouldn't drink. Kids shouldn't f*ck. All of the aforementioned things are bad for kids to do, yet entirely legal for adults. So tell me again why marijuana deserves some specialized classification? If I got high enough, yes I would. I made my point earlier in this thread. That most cases of depression aren't a manifestation of a real symptomatic disease. Rather, just a case of the blues. For many people, smoking pot cures the blues. Which is good for the soul.
Yes. We should also protect children from beer, sex, cigarettes and driving cars. Throwing adults in prison doesn't save children from everything. It is often not the best answer. I'll make this absolutely clear. It is not that I don't trust my friends around my child because they are pot smokers. I won't risk having the pigs bust my friends around my kid. Thusly making me look like a sh*t stain for having "drug addicts" around my child. My friends are good, hard working people with children of their own. They are not reckless criminals. It is the reckless laws that I am protecting my child from. The only real damaging thing she would be confronted with is the backlash of the crooked laws.
