Sleeping Problems

[Pali]

Drinking a glass of red wine a day is good for the heart. Not sure about a beer.

And Tantangel, getting high doesn't stop me from thinking about my problems, nor from dealing with them. Some it makes easier to deal with, because you're not focusing on feeling bad about them. Anxiety occurs occasionally, depending on the situation and the person... I myself almost never get paranoid on pot.

"PEOPLE DIE EVERY DAY BECAUSE OF MARAJUANA, NOT BECAUSE IT IS BAD FOR THE BODY, BUT BAD FOR YOUR BRAIN!" --- I have NEVER seen a single study that supports this claim, and you'd be amazed how many studies I'd looked at. If you have an actual source to support this claim, I'd be amazed. Most studies of marijuana interaction with the brain show a lack of negative effects beyond short-term memory loss while high.

[Dobson]

If you have an actual source to support this claim' date=' I'd be amazed. Most studies of marijuana interaction with the brain show a lack of negative effects beyond short-term memory loss while high.[/quote']

Let me tell you something Pali, I can PM you any details you want aside from contact information on the victims, but I personally have a fatality accident nearly every hour of the day in the Greater Houston Area. The majority are caused by DUI. Being under the influence of Marajuana is not as bad as alcohol but it impairs your motor skills and reaction time, I don't have to show you a study. One a one mile stretch in Houston on US 59, 22 people were killed in one month, what caused every single one of them? DUI's, that's what. I would say a good 1/4 of them were cokeheads, 1/2 were beer and spirits, and the last was simple drugs like Marajuana.

[Pali]

I'm well aware that marijuana use impairs motor skills and reaction time. Not to the extent that alcohol does, but it definitely does. However, when testing someone for marijuana after an accident, the problem is that marijuana tests cannot tell whether the person smoked an hour before or a week before, because it stays in your system that long. I could go three days without smoking, get in an accident, and test positive for marijuana. That doesn't mean I was high while driving.

[Dobson]

That doesn't mean I was high while driving.

Obviously you don't know what a blood test is, as opposed to a urinalysis. One tests for trace, the other tests for a level of THC. But I am not going to get into it, only going to go down hill.

[Mindflayer]

**** this noise. Pie Man, get a sleep study.

[Deptore]

The largest study ever done linking road accidents with drugs and alcohol has found drivers with cannabis in their blood were no more at risk than those who were drug-free. In fact, the findings by a pharmacology team from the University of Adelaide and Transport SA showed drivers who had smoked marijuana were marginally less likely to have an accident than those who were drug-free.

A study spokesman, Dr Jason White, said the difference was not great enough to be statistically significant but could be explained by anecdotal evidence that marijuana smokers were more cautious and drove more slowly because of altered time perception. The study of 2,500 accidents, which matched the blood alcohol levels of injured drivers with details from police reports, found drug-free drivers caused the accidents in 53.5 per cent of cases.

Injured drivers with a blood-alcohol concentration of more than 0.05 per cent were culpable in nearly 90 per cent of accidents they were involved in. Drivers with cannabis in their blood were less likely to cause an accident, with a culpability rate of 50.6 per cent. The study has policy implications for those who argue drug detection should be a new focus for road safety. Dr White said the study showed the importance of concentrating efforts on alcohol rather than other drugs.

I've many other links to studies that have proven the same thing if you'd like to read them.

[Pali]

Ah, that was the study I saw.

EDIT: And Dobson, perhaps you are unaware that marijuana can stay in the blood for up to three days, LONG after the effects have worn off.

[Tantangel]

*cough*Topic anyone? Anyone else have any home remedies? Otherwise please, please make a new thread.

[a-guitarist]

....or perhaps prescribed psychiatric medications' date=' heck...from experience i have found that the last does more damage than any of the others because people abuse them under the ruse of medical help.[/quote']

Testify to that, my friend. I have permanent cognitive damage because of the "experts" "knowing best".

a-g

[Guest emp_newb]

Look, the bottom line is you cannot say marijuana is a harmful substance when alcohol is legal, when is the last time you heard about a guy getting High and beating his wife? Or getting High and drifting into oncoming traffic? Or getting high and starting a fight with strangers, or getting high and getting liver cancer. all this hype about marijuana being a bad thing is horse crap, cigarrettes have far more carcinogenic material than marijuana. For christ sake in California you can grow personal smoke with a permit, and you know why? Because they can tax the damn permit. As soon as they figure out how to tax smoke, it will be legal.

[brsingr]

4) Marijuana does not cause cancer (and if you smoke it you are actually slightly less likely to get cancer)

Actually, pot has 4 times as much of the chemicals that cause cancer, but only the smoke. however, if taken orally, or through a vaporizer, it is far better for you than tobacco or alchohol.

What i dont get is this: THC capsules are legal for medical reasons, THC comes from weed, why not just give them weed orally?

[HBwillie]

i imagine smoking anything would be harmful after a while.

[brsingr]

however, w/ tobacco, you chew/eat it or put it in a vaporizer, you still experience negative influences. w/ pot, not so much

[Pali]

Actually, pot has 4 times as much of the chemicals that cause cancer, but only the smoke. however, if taken orally, or through a vaporizer, it is far better for you than tobacco or alchohol.

What i dont get is this: THC capsules are legal for medical reasons, THC comes from weed, why not just give them weed orally?

The difference is quantity of smoke regularly imbibed. I smoke almost every day, both pot and cigarettes, and I can guarantee you that I smoke way more than four times as much tobacco as I do pot. Also, there are days where I go without pot... but not days where I go without cigs. Which sounds more harmful?

[brsingr]

I meant that that tobacco is more harmful, but to be careful how you use pot. buy a vaporizer! healthier, better highs, and longer highs, because what would be one joint can be used like 5 times until completely vaporized, and none of the chemicals are being wasted by the stream of smoke - whether you're using it or not, the joint's still burning!