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Posted by Renegade on Feb-08-2005 08:00:

Idea Apparently Smoking "350 Joints a Week" Will Adversely Affect Your Memory...

Just a heads up, guys:

quote:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marijuana users have faster blood flow in their brains, even after a month of not smoking, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

The findings suggest they have narrowed arteries, similar to patients with high blood pressure and dementia, and could help explain reports that heavy marijuana users have trouble on memory tests, said the researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore.

Ronald Herning and Jean Lud Cadet tested 54 marijuana users, who smoked anywhere between two and 350 joints a week, and 18 non-smokers.

They used Doppler sonograms to measure blood flow in volunteers' brains at the beginning of the study and a month later, after everyone agreed to abstain from marijuana for the four weeks.

The smokers had faster blood flow, both at the start and after a month of abstinence, Herning and Cadet reported in the journal Neurology.

The smokers also had a higher pulsatility index score, or PI, which measures the amount of resistance to blood flow. The researchers believe the higher PI is caused by narrower blood vessels.

"The marijuana users had PI values that were somewhat higher than those of people with chronic high blood pressure and diabetes," Herning said in a statement.

"However, their values were lower than those of people with dementia. This suggests that marijuana use leads to abnormalities in the small blood vessels in the brain."

They found that blood flow improved in people who smoked up to 70 marijuana cigarettes a week -- people they defined as moderate users -- after a month of avoiding cannabis.

Heavy users, who smoked up to 350 joints a week, saw no change in blood flow even after a month, the researchers said.


Researchers at Toronto's McGill University have reported that chronic consumers of cannabis lose molecules called CB1 receptors in the brain's arteries.

This reduces blood flow to the brain, causing attention deficits, memory loss, and impaired learning ability.


http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/new...ARIJUANA-DC.XML

For the record, that's lighting up every 30 minutes for an entire week without sleeping. You "moderate users" who only smoke ten joints a day look like you're in the clear though...


Posted by metalfacedoom on Feb-08-2005 08:04:

those guys are cooler than jesus christ himself


Posted by Boomer187 on Feb-08-2005 08:05:

i konw people who smoke more than that. They'll kill 10 joints in an hour.


Posted by metalfacedoom on Feb-08-2005 08:07:

quote:
Originally posted by Boomer187
i konw people who smoke more than that. They'll kill 10 joints in an hour.


serious, i know a chick who can semen from her own asshole


Posted by bas on Feb-08-2005 08:29:

Rasta

is THAT what MF means? i didn't know that. anyway wtf??!?! 70 joints a week is "moderate", thats crazy. i smoke a bowl like once or twice every few days...that's moderate. 70 joints in a week is a fucking pothead


Posted by KilldaDJ on Feb-08-2005 15:56:

quote:
Originally posted by Boomer187
i konw people who smoke more than that. They'll kill 10 joints in an hour.


if only i had that much drugs to smoke...


Posted by Acton on Feb-08-2005 16:12:

quote:
Originally posted by Boomer187
i konw people who smoke more than that. They'll kill 10 joints in an hour.


i actually saw superwomen once





ten joints an hour, thats a joint every 6 mins........so this 'person' can smoke a whole joint and then roll up another one in 6mins, then do this continuosly for an hour. i need to meet this 'person'.


Posted by Mr. Pink on Feb-08-2005 16:24:

Rasta

sorry but im a pothead.

i admit it

and i used to be even more of a pothead, i was high for 2yrs straight! lol

but never did i ever smoke 10 joints in an hour.
thats retarded.

why get higher when you're already BLAZING!!!!!!!!!


seems pointless to me.

after that many J's, yer not getting higher, just leveling off and smokin just to smoke.

oh vell.


Posted by Boomer187 on Feb-08-2005 16:52:

quote:
Originally posted by Acton
i actually saw superwomen once





ten joints an hour, thats a joint every 6 mins........so this 'person' can smoke a whole joint and then roll up another one in 6mins, then do this continuosly for an hour. i need to meet this 'person'.



actually my brother was like that for a while. and they usually get in a group of a few people and pass a lot around for a long period o time.


Also you have to think of how the experimenter actually recorded how mnay joints a week these people smoked. I know for a fact that if the survey was published from my high school I would have been marked down for smoking crack more than 30 times a day.


Posted by KilldaDJ on Feb-08-2005 17:09:

hmm, that is alot of joints...

i'll happily smoke abt 5-6 joints before im totally mashed

and i load my joints so im smoking weed not baccy...

but that is alot of joints...


Posted by Zenchowdah on Feb-08-2005 17:13:

quote:
Originally posted by metalfacedoom
serious, i know a chick who can semen from her own asshole


wtf?


Posted by Zild on Feb-08-2005 17:14:

I want to meet someone that smokes 70 joints a day. Maybe 70 joints of some nasty ass bud but 1 joint of the stick dankness is all you need maybe even for 2 days. I consider myself a huge pothead and I only smoke a few bowls a day. 70 joints a day is ridiculous 350 is completely unreal. Everyone knows smoking bud slows your brain down a little but I think the difference is negligible. I still make good grades at university even though I'm stoned all the time. Some people just can't function normally when they're high though.


Posted by CyberneticAngel on Mar-07-2005 02:33:

Re: Re: Apparently Smoking "350 Joints a Week" Will Adversely Affect Your Memory...

quote:
Originally posted by josh4
that study is flawed. there is no way someone who smokes 350 joints a week would be able to abstain voluntarily for four weeks. you'd have to lock them in a room or something




+1

I only smoke a little but I get pissy if I go more than a couple of days


Posted by Eric Siefer on Mar-07-2005 02:54:

They have to be smoking schwagg too. Or their really rich, and smoke dank, and have a VERY high tolerance.

I wonder what the conversion rate from schwagg to dank.


Posted by OurManFlint on Mar-07-2005 03:01:

350 joints a week. They gotta be some rich fuckin people.


Posted by dallastar on Mar-07-2005 03:07:

i wish i had the stamina to smoke 350 J's!~

But I don't

I can only smoke 4 a day - 2 at night at least! one b4 the shower when i get home from work and one afterwards! I smoke 1 b4 work too - to get me through the day in a relaxed manner....

OMG it's 10pm - I have so much to do here at work!
so 4 time 7 is 28 a week! I am weak!


Posted by Krypton on Mar-07-2005 04:04:

i stayed the night at this lesbian couples house one time, and one of the lesbians was the most continuously high person ive ever seen. she did the bong hits though. one when she woke up, one after breakfast, a hit just for the hell of it, a hit before she went to work, a hit when she came back, and then it was saturday night, and everyone was coming over, and she had this bong in her lap the entire fucking time. or passed it around, but it always came back to her. i took two hits off that shit and i was blazed. but, she just had this blank, expressionless face with red eyes. i ran out of breath laughing at her.


Posted by twisted on Mar-07-2005 04:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr. Pink
i was high for 2yrs straight! lol


dear god!!!!111 somebody one-up this man!


Posted by Fast Turtle on Mar-07-2005 04:23:

Re: Re: Apparently Smoking "350 Joints a Week" Will Adversely Affect Your Memory...

quote:
Originally posted by josh4
that study is flawed. there is no way someone who smokes 350 joints a week would be able to abstain voluntarily for four weeks. you'd have to lock them in a room or something


Rehab, maybe?


Posted by {b.s.e.} on Mar-07-2005 04:37:

quote:
Originally posted by Zild
I want to meet someone that smokes 70 joints a day. Maybe 70 joints of some nasty ass bud but 1 joint of the stick dankness is all you need maybe even for 2 days. I consider myself a huge pothead and I only smoke a few bowls a day. 70 joints a day is ridiculous 350 is completely unreal. Everyone knows smoking bud slows your brain down a little but I think the difference is negligible. I still make good grades at university even though I'm stoned all the time. Some people just can't function normally when they're high though.


hehe, 350+70=420


Posted by AlphaStarred on Mar-07-2005 05:28:

the devil take it! why haven't you informed me sooner?!


Posted by Kooshtie on Mar-07-2005 06:11:

if you dont treat nugz the same way u would treat alcohol...then ur a freaking burnout in need of help.....ask urself this would u drink everyday? Nah usually its with friends in social situations....same goes for pot, ive smoked for 6 years and its not as "unharmful" as everyone says...sure its perfectly safe..but im talkin mental and psychological effects after abusing for a certain amount of time...it gets crazy down the line trust me...dont smoke more than u should, i love the plant but for real, there is other things to get done.


Posted by muzzybear on Mar-07-2005 10:47:

Huh?

What?

I forget.


Posted by Carney on Mar-07-2005 21:32:

you wouldnt be able to smoke Canadian weed like that


Posted by CyberneticAngel on Mar-07-2005 21:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Carney
you wouldnt be able to smoke Canadian weed like that



Some of the best I ever had was from British Columbia


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