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The Effects of Marijuana on the Body – Should We?

marijuanna_plantThere is a growing movement in Barbados to free up the weed. BU sees compelling arguments for and against. There is the economic argument to support decriminalizing/legalizing marijuana will go along way to relieving congestion in the court system. Then there are the touted medical benefits -many of us have seen the miraculous recovery on CBS documentaries and other  media. The following is reproduced from Healthline Website to stoke discussion. Should we?

The Effects of Marijuana on the Body

Marijuana comes from the Cannabis plant. The flowers, seeds, leaves, and stems of the plant must be shredded and dried before they can be used. Most people who use marijuana smoke it, but it can be mixed into food, brewed into tea, or even used in a vaporizer. One of the ingredients in marijuana is a mind-altering chemical called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

When you inhale marijuana smoke into your lungs, it is quickly released into your bloodstream on its way to your brain and other organs. It takes a little longer to be absorbed when you eat or drink it.

The effects of marijuana on the body are immediate. Longer-term effects may depend on how you take it, how much you take, and how often you use it. Since its use has long been illegal in the United States, large-scale studies have been difficult to manage.

See more at: http://www.healthline.com/health/addiction/marijuana/effects-on-body#sthash.gqIziLzA.dpuf

93 responses to “The Effects of Marijuana on the Body – Should We?”

  1. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Most doctors recommend you drink the tea because of the effects associated with smoking, which is not good for anyone.

  2. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    We love to follow USA,so why not legalise it and allow commercial production to start here in the abandoned cane fields,which they are already using by the way.

    Every one from the minister back down is clamering for more farmers when we already have a set of knowledgeable individual practising the science of growing this plant succesfully against the odds.

    People have to take responsibility for themselves,the same way some die of alcohol which is legal some will die of drugs.It is legal in the Netherlands and has been for years,last I knew the population had not decreased nor was it a country of zombies.Always remember all drugs were legal 120 years ago.

    The benefits will be that the Police and BDF,will no longer waste time on them unfortunately the price will go down which will in turn mash up our black economy which is the only reason Bim survived the wrecking ball of this govt.

  3. Tom Rieke Avatar
    Tom Rieke

    The local price might go down, and the government could make sure that it stays reasonable. But the best approach is to legalize the plant and the product, and establish it as the best ganga in the western hemisphere. Bajan ganga could become a premium commodity, available on the world market at a premium price. That will rescue the farmers, who should also, of course, be required to continue growing vegetables and fruit for the nation. The result: improved currency reserves, a healthier economy, and a healthier country.

  4. freedom Avatar
    freedom

    TAXES,Taxes wont have to raise vat or drive expats and investors out. readily available on any beach in bim,regulate, get rid of the crims.crack down onhard drugs c,h, speed

  5. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Next thing we will be told that’s good for Bimshire or Little England, is casino gambling.
    Imagine the heady mix of alcohol,ganja, casinos and the DLP!

  6. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    Any political which genuinely cares about the number of youth made into criminals by a bad law will make decriminalization of marijuana with attendant laws a priority.

    Oh how drunkards drive cars and kill people while drinking to a drunken stupor is accepted.

    How much does alcohol related ailments cost the QEH?

    What is the total number of days lost to Barbados due to alcoholism?

    Lets us have the statistics on marijuana also of the above questions so a fair comparison can be done!

  7. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    The 1000 lbs recently intercepted by the police can fetch more than a million dollars if we can just stop being sheeple for once.

    CBD the pharmaceutical extract can be a major export of Barbados thru some smart partnership with Pfizer.

    Perhaps, a marijuana microfibre under the Ganja brand just as Sea Island cotton is world renowned.

    Why are we just contented to follow and never take the road less travelled?

  8. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Kammie Holder January 21, 2016 at 9:29 PM #

    I am lost/confused …..are you for or against legalising ganja and other drugs?

  9. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Kannie and Vincent, as well as Well Well.
    More Zombies, less healthy middle aged; if they live that long, More chronic illnesses related to lung disease, and fare more important, who will be making the dealers richer? Our own black children brothers sisters and friends. Few white people, because they will be encouraging the same black people to make themselves poorer. I will not go into the medical aspects of marijuana usage, but I would advise government to increase the amount of money supplied to the Psychiatrict hospital because the numbers committed there will rise exponentially.

  10. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    The marijuana debate is now old. As always , we are the last to arrive at the party. In a country where the consumption of alcohol is almost a religion( I, myself a regular consumer), we refuse to ignore the uniformed, negative propaganda about a plant that most serious researchers have concluded has tremendous health benefits. Well the: okra, breadfruit, pomegranate, sweet potato, tamarind , ackee, coconut and coconut water, and mango have now been firmly established as excellent sources for good health. In the meantime, we have land wasting ,that could have been bringing in millions of dollars in foreign exchange, if we had developed our agriculture beyond sugar cane. Where there is no vision the people STARVE, become UNHEALTHY and then PERISH. On my last trip to St. Andrew, I was stunned to see mangoes on the ground;a few years ago in Trinidad, I saw pomegranates suffering the same fate. Time long past to free up de herb.

  11. Ready done Avatar
    Ready done

    The problem with weed in Barbados is the people that DONT smoke. The market is saturated to the point that weed is more avaible that a newspaper. But if you don’t smoke you will never know. If weed is send people mad then the half of Barbados that watch foot ball would be mad. The most important question I have is who is going to take care of all these push a men when they get old? I don’t think that pay NIS. But the truth is the juridical system in Barbados makes to much money from weed being illegal. And if weed was legal the police would have to shift their attention from the boys on the block to blue and white collar crime.

  12. ac Avatar
    ac

    THE SHORT TERM EFFECTS OF MARIJUANA

    Sensory distortion
    Panic
    Anxiety
    Poor coordination of movement
    Lowered reaction time
    After an initial “up,” the user feels sleepy or depressed
    Increased heartbeat (and risk of heart attack)

    All similar to the effects of alcohol a drug which was made legal and for the worst has now shown to be one of the number one killers in society

    LONG-term effects of marijuana

    Reduced resistance to common illnesses (colds, bronchitis, etc.)

    Suppression of the immune system
    Growth disorders
    Increase of abnormally structured cells in the body
    Reduction of male sex hormones
    Rapid destruction of lung fibers and lesions (injuries) to the brain could be permanent
    Reduced sexual capacity
    Study difficulties: reduced ability to learn and retain information
    Apathy, drowsiness, lack of motivation
    Personality and mood changes
    Inability to understand things clearly

    As the body ages these high risk factors increase and decrease the body ability to perform at an optimum level

  13. David Avatar
    David

    It comes back to social norms. We accept alcohol don’t we? The bigger issue is that other countries are prepared to adopt a different approach, Barbados because of our conservative nature is prepared to wait. Our research shows there is no preponderance of evidence that marijuana is significantly harmful than alcohol. Are we prepared to remove the emotionalism and list the pros and cons? Many of our leaders in Barbados and overseas have taken a puff or two of weed.

  14. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/76951/meth-illegal-drug-barbados

    Alvin…..you really want to see zombies, check this article out.

    Someone with lots of money and good overseas contacts is importing crystal meth into Barbados, the police on the island would be hesitant to dig up these people’s home and arrest them. No poor or middle class person would have access to that type of money for importing this deadly drug.

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/76951/meth-illegal-drug-barbados

    In you infinite wisdom in demonizing weed, tell us how dangerous crystal meth is vs marijuana or the contactd to pay for getting it into the island…that is where you will see the real decaying zombies Alvin…..

  15. ac Avatar
    ac

    Take it easy David those other countries i suspect you are speaking of dominant international countries who are still lagging and debating the benefits and negatives of marijuana on society
    Also note worthy these countries have given limited support on marijuana specifically for medicinal purposes which speaks to the mind set for these forward thinking countries whereby they see and forecast a down effect that would socially and economically impact their country negatively long term ,
    The question being ::Can these small island nations bear the social and economic long term cost which will be a derivative of having another legal drug especially knowing and seeing the negative impact on individual lives
    Why not face reality instead of being followers of our own fate why not be cautious in or thinking and be slow in our guidance towards a repeat of another legalities to failure

  16. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    I am not debating marijuana with you Alvin, I said it all in my first post….doctors more qualified than you tell people the safest way to use marijuana and there has been no complaints, you could advise the government all you want, they are just like you….I know one old lady years ago who smoked marijuana, in my opinion not the safest way, until she was 103 years old, so explain that medical miracle Alvin.

  17. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Ready Done…you are quite correct, the authorities would be hesitant to shift their focus from arresting the boys on the block to arresting the real criminals with titles the ceos who are the real criminals and have access to all the funds needed to import drugs, guns, the new crystal meth, the money laundering and the oversea contacts to bring them all in and export them to other islands and countris, no small, poor person can do that, the police overlook these people for obvious reasons….and of course they make tons of money locking up poor people for crap.

  18. David Avatar
    David

    Thus same conversation was had during the days of prohibition.

  19. ac Avatar
    ac

    And if anything learned it is the socio economic fall out that have taken a financial cost on society in health related issues and cost of innoncent lives after the lifting of a ban on alcohol

  20. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    Why is it we hardly hear of persons caught with cocaine the drug of the wealthy.

    UWI has done extensive research on the pharmaceutical potential and extracts of marijuana, however its not shared with the public.

    CBD extract can bring in millions, we need to look at the good of the plant and not only the zombies it can produce.

  21. Bernard Codrington. Avatar
    Bernard Codrington.

    I wonder which nameless medical scientists are these who stated that there are no negative consequences for the social use of marijuana? This is yet another case of misinformation being spread through this medium.

  22. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Well Well:
    We start out discussing Marijuana, and you bring in the importation of Crystal meth. I don’t care if other countries decide to provide their own citizens with deadly drugs. It does not mean we must do the same. You mention the lady who smoked weed and lived to 103 years, what about all those centenarians who have never smoked weed and have lived just as long. Your arguments are just like the smoke, blowing in the wind. I already asked, who will purchase the drugs? Our own “boys on the block”, our own CEOs, our own children, our own people. In other words we will make the conscious decision to put our own selves back into slavery, the slavery to drugs. There is no logic reason why people HAVE ri smoke; neither cigarettes nor weed. We choose to because we want to be “part if the crowd”. Being a slave to drugs, is thew worse kind of slavery because we would be doing so voluntarily.However you paint it is is SLAVERY. Why do it?

  23. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Kammie,
    YOU may not have heard or read but persons caught with Cocsine have been given extensive sentences, and had their property confiscated. If you take a dive in carlisle bay you will see the wreck of an inter island ship on which cocaine was discovered, it was confiscated; as the law allows, and sunk in the harbour to create a wreck for divers. Check.
    Why do we; or at least some of us, find or try to make excuses for what is wrong. Don’t we have enough examples of people who have been harmed by marijuana? As the song asks; “How many more/”

  24. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Alvin…..as usual you can only see what your masters tell you, am sure exporting marijuana for medical purposes is now paying your pension in Canada, but you are too dumb to even articulate this, so why bother.

    Cocaine been around longer than you, misused it’s dangerous, however, most of your medications contains the derivatives.

  25. ac Avatar
    ac

    The so called medical scientist only interest is in self preservation linked to financial sucess and not in the long term decay of anti social effects conducive to a break down of society behaviour

  26. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Well Well,

    All I have to offer is my personal experience with two mild-mannered Rastafarians whom I was supervising. One morning I issued instruction to one of them in my usual polite way and was shocked when I was met with such belligerence and tongue-lashing that all I could do was gape like a fish. The other fellows told me that I shouldn’t take it personally since he had just come from smoking a joint on his break. Normallly he would have smoked it before leaving home. This was one of the most respectful of all the guys who erupted in a most uncharacteristic way. He later apologized even after he was fired.

    A few months later the next most respectful fellow reacted in the same manner to my polite instructions. Again the fellows informed me that he had just come from smoking a joint on his break. Normally he would have smoked it before leaving home.

    These were both Rastafarians who ONLY SMOKED MARIJUANA.

    I am certain that certain extracts of marijuana have some health benefits if treated and used in the right way but its widespread and unfettered use I would not recommend.

    I too am concerned that the only people getting locked up in Barbados are the foot soldiers. Where are the officers and generals? The foot soldiers know that to tell would only end in their death and the continued amassing of wealth of the commanders who I would guess are some of the prominent people in society and therefore beyond the clutches of the law. Why don’t these young people realize that they are being exploited worse than if they worked in a cane field? Selling themselves into slavery, I say.

  27. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Donna, that is why it’s advised that the drug not be smoked, the suppliers saturate it with formaldehyde in an attempt to preserve the potency. Growers are now monitered to keep certain properties that can be harmful, out of the plant, before reaping……..misuse can cause problems. I don’t even think it should be used fir rcreation, but that is a matter of choice, I don’t use it, but have seen many people do for years, without abusing it, with no adverse effects.

    Contrary to the crap some spout, though containing healing properties, it’s not a religion and should not be smoked religiously, causing hallucinations….abuse of anything is dangerous.

  28. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Donna….the authorities know only too well that it’s the minorities bringing all the drugs, guns, now meth into the island, they have the money, resources and contacts….did one from Belleville not get caught with marijuana and a gun last year, given bail and was dead in some accident just before Christmas.

    They know exactly who is doing it but refuse to do anything…….maybe Alvin should ask the politicians why nothing is being done, since he is in a position to advise them…..the commissioner of police keeps complaining while they keep tying his hands.

  29. David Avatar
    David

    We will always have abuse of any drug. What we need to do is prepare a national cost benefit cost analysis to inform intelligent conversation.

  30. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    David January 22, 2016 at 11:19 AM #

    As I had said before it has been legalised in a number of places for decades,all that has to be done is some research in areas of interest for us like crime,effect on the police force,where did the black marketeers go,increase in health clinics,trade figures,etc,etc

  31. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    http://www.medicaldaily.com/marijuana-vs-alcohol-effects-psychoactive-drugs-have-physical-and-mental-health-332094

  32. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Fantastic information Hants.

  33. ac Avatar
    ac

    “Abuse of every drug” what kind of a compelling argument is that? Certainly not one that supports a wholesome necessity for legalisation of the drug Marijuana.
    The evidence is already there to show that the economic benefits does not out weigh the negative social impact
    Govts role is not only to make financial gains by any means necessary but to act as a buffer against those financial gains that present or act contrary against the moral fibre of siciety.

  34. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    So AC….why is the government doing nothing about the corruption destroying the island, why aren’t the bribers and bribees not locked up…..to save the fibre of society from more decay…don’t they care about that.

  35. Kammie Holder Avatar
    Kammie Holder

    “Marijuana and alcohol are often pitted up against each other in an effort to determine which one is the healthier vice. Marijuana smokers are usually quick to cite smokers incur fewer deaths than drinkers, which is to say there are currently no reported deaths from simply smoking weed. The Huffington Post cited “a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times the amount of THC in a joint in order to be at risk of dying.”

    This isn’t the case for alcohol. The World Health Organization (WHO) found 3.3 million deaths in 2012 were attributed to alcohol consumption. And recently, a comparative assessment published in Scientific Reports found alcohol to be 114 times more deadly than marijuana.

    That marijuana doesn’t lead to as many deaths as alcohol does doesn’t mean it’s without any serious side effects. At the end of the day, both are considered to be psychoactive drugs that affect mental processes and cognition when taken or administered, WHO reported.”

    http://www.medicaldaily.com/marijuana-vs-alcohol-effects-psychoactive-drugs-have-physical-and-mental-health-332094

    aBOVE LINK THANKS TO hANTS

  36. ac Avatar
    ac

    My issue with Marijuana is not opposing to the “feel good euphoria ” which the drug supposedly can affect on an individual mind but the long term effect of an overall social displacement which can be catastrophic to individual lives and govts having to intervene by distribution of necessary funding which could have been allocated to other social programs
    It would be of interest to know if or when marijuana is legalized how many are willing to pay the price of the social decay that impact society when drugs of this nature is easily available to society

  37. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Well Well ,Vincent and Kammie,
    For your information (cut and pasted)

    Two people face multiple charges for drug trafficking and possession after Toronto police raided a Danforth Avenue marijuana cafe and vape lounge.

    Christopher and Erin Goodwin, owners of the Good Weeds Vapor Lounge on Danforth near Donlands Avenue, were arrested Thursday evening at the cafe. Their business, one of the first of its kind in Canada, sold marijuana, cannabis resins and extracts, which could be used in vaporizers at the cafe.

    The lounge, which opened on Christmas Eve, is part of the Good Weeds chain, which has numerous locations in B.C. and another Toronto location on College Street.

    Jaime McConnell was one of about 15 to 20 customers in the cafe on Thursday when, he said, “six drug squad and about six uniforms walked in the front door.”

    Good Weeds Lounge / Facebook
    Good Weeds Lounge / FacebookA Facebook posting showing dabs — or a concentrated marijuana extract that can be smoked or vaped — at the Good Weeds Lounge on Danforth.
    The police executed a search warrant, questioned customers and handcuffed the Goodwins and McConnell, all of whom were behind the bar. They took the Goodwins into custody, but released McConnell without charge.

    Cst. Caroline de Kloet said the search warrant was the result of “a community complaint that led officers to this location.”

    McConnell said he believes the raid was prompted by a video posted online on Jan. 12 by Vice News Canada, which identified the lounge as a “totally illegal” marijuana dispensary.

    Chris Goodwin told Vice “we elected a Liberal government that’s moving toward legalizing recreational cannabis, and we take that announcement to mean that it’s here now.”

    Both Goodwins are charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking marijuana, possession for the purpose of trafficking cannabis resin and possession of the proceeds of crime. Erin Goodwin also faces a charge of possession of marijuana.

    Don Briere, co-owner of the Good Weeds Lounge, says the raid of the store is “outrageous” considering the government announced they would be legalizing marijuana.

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    Google MapsTheir business, one of the first of its kind in Canada, sells marijuana, cannabis resins and extracts, which can be used in vaporizers at the cafe on the Danforth.
    “We the people voted in a government that said the cannabis wars are over,” he said.

    Briere believes that the police are using “willful blindness and negligence,” in raiding the shop and enforcing laws which he says are based on complete lies and misconceptions.

    “Why are you doing this?” he asked, “The laws are changing.”

    Briere said the Goodwins have been released from police custody.

    “They’re out and they’re totally annoyed and miffed about this”

    Briere said the shop will re-open as soon as possible.

    “They’re going to come out swinging,” said Briere, “they’re going to be talking about criminal misuse of resources and I’m going to back them up on that.”
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    You see Well Well, proceeds from Marijuana do NOT pay my pension. The drug still is not legal in Canada. Why do we have to make it legal? Why do you think people should profit from the destruction of other people’s brains? What is the percentage of our population that would NEED to use medical marijuana, and for what purposes? There are enough medications on the market for all kinds of illnesses that can be cured without resort to marijuana. I am not going to argue with you much on this subject, because we had lengthy discussions on it in 2013 and 2014. Why do you people keep bringing it up? Just so that you can boast “we defeated the establishment? If it against the law, why not accept it and obey the law? It is against the law to steal. Just because a small number of people like to steal, should we say and advocate relaxation of the law on stealing? Give me a logical answer.

  38. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    Strongly oppose to legalizing marijuana. After ruining thousand of lives and families; after fulling the prisons and turning prisons into private businesses, ‘society’ now wants to cash in by making marijuana legal.

  39. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Alvin, ya got the whole thing wrong, you can cut and paste all the court cases you can find, it won’t change anything….Canada has a thriving export market for marijuana destined for medical purposes. So does Jamaica, so does the US, so does….you have no clue what generates your pension money, what are you Canadian Finance Minister.

  40. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    I have never seen a person stumbling around and behaving aggressively after smoking weed but I have seen a lot of men become aggressive and “igrunt” after a few drinks.

    I am yet to be convinced that weed is as dangerous as alcohol.

    Weed generally makes you sleepy and ravenously hungry. At least that is what it did to my friends.

  41. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Some uh wunna canabajans mixing up weed as medicine and weed for recreational purposes.

    http://medicalmarijuana.ca/

  42. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Alvin Cummins January 22, 2016 at 6:52 PM
    “If it against the law, why not accept it and obey the law? It is against the law to steal. Just because a small number of people like to steal, should we say and advocate relaxation of the law on stealing? Give me a logical answer.”

    And your point is, Alvin? It was once ‘within’ the law to keep slaves like you. It was once against the law for people of your race and colour to participate in many aspects of the social and economic life of Barbados and other countries controlled by whites whether in the majority or minority.

    The use of marijuana in whichever form (except for industrial and medicinal purposes) only became an “Illegal” activity within the last 80 years mainly to protect both the once dominant tobacco and the reformed bootleggers (licensed alcoholic beverages producers and distributors) industries.

    Unsophisticated Third World governments like Barbados will find it rather difficult if not impossible to impose any so-called sin tax on the use of marijuana as they easily can on processed (refined) tobacco and alcohol.

    My friend A C, that is the only reason governments are unwillingly to “legalize” the use of marijuana. Would the State- and by extension politicians and bureaucrats- benefit from such a move?
    What would there be in it for them other than having to reduce the number of law enforcement officers and associated judicial and prison resources? Some of these ‘saved’ resources would have to be allocated to the remedial treatment of those psychologically inclined to abuse any activity whether illegal or illegal. Why do you have Alcoholic Anonymous, Gamblers Anonymous, the many “Quit Smoking” groups and organizations or even Sex Anonymous?

    Why would you in your ignorant arrogant supercilious attitude believe that the average Bajan who currently does not drink or smoke will all of a sudden, on the decriminalization of the use of marijuana’ engage in the widespread consumption of marijuana on any large scale to pose a major health problem to the dwindling resources of the country? Would you and your ilk do it? So why would ordinary people do it, other than those suckers inclined in the first place?

    Why aren’t there a greater number of alcoholics and ‘hooked’ tobacco smokers in Barbados to be a considered a major health hazard like diabetes, hypertension, AIDS and the many viruses that will soon be reaching epidemic proportions?

    Why should a normal otherwise law-abiding person who wishes to grow marijuana plants in his garden to use as a culinary herb and herbal infusion i.e. tea (just like any of your God-created herbs and plants) be demonized and made into a criminal because special interests groups want to protect their profits while bribing the politicians and bureaucrats to keep those silly outdated prejudicial laws against marijuana on the Statute book?

  43. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Hants January 22, 2016 at 11:17 PM
    Weed generally makes you sleepy and ravenously hungry. At least that is what it did to my friends…..”

    You need to finish your sentence, Hants. ‘At least that is what it did to my friends AND TO ME’.
    Sleep and hunger are urges which one must experience personally to understand their full effects. We are all human and speaking from personal experience is the most convincing and is the best testimony of the truth.

  44. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @millertheanunnaki,

    I only smoked weed twice and I did not like it.

    I preferred to drink Scotch…..responsibly.lol

  45. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    Reading in the Nation, the article states that a Verdun House spokesperson as saying that recent addicts have been taking Crystal Meth.

    It is IMERATIVE, that authorities shut this drug / drug source down immediately and crush down on those importing / manufacturing (more likely manufacturing it here as it can be done in a home lab) it.

    Five years in jail for being a manufacturer or trader in the drug sounds like a good sentence.

    This drug DESTROYS people.

  46. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Hants…did you inhale…my daughter said while at university, she tried it and did not feel anything, wondered if it was really a drug. I guess it affects different people in different ways.

    BTW…I posted a Canada Health link for Alvin’s benefit re medical marijuana just last week, I specifically stated, in my opinion, weed should not be smoked, but him and AC are all revved up, energized and vibrating to deceive anyone dumb enough to believe their nonsense…regurgitating their masters agenda, most of whom am sure smokes the damn weed.

  47. Alvin Cummins Avatar
    Alvin Cummins

    @Hants, Well ‘Well, and Miller.
    I do not smoke anything, and I drink alcohol very sparingly,
    Having worked in the medical field for over fifty-eight years; many years spent dissecting tissue from corpses for laboratory analysis;chemical, microscopic, and macroscopic, I can testify to the effects of alcohol use; short term and long term, smoking; tobacco and marijuana, on various tissues of the body, but more particularly, the tissues of the liver, the heart, the lungs and the brain. I can educate you on the microscopic and macroscopic effects of these drugs on the body, that lead to the many illnesses they cause, and the resultant deaths.
    For example. Long term and incessant use of alcohol, results in gradual loss of the cells of the liver, impairing their ability to detoxify the poison of alcohol. As a consequence it results in cirrhosis of the liver. Any one who buys or feels liver knows how supple that tissue is. A cirrhotic liver is not only hard, and crunches when it can be cut, but instead of being red is pale white or grey and is almost solid.
    The lungs of a tobacco smoker instead of being supple and red, is almost black from the carbon particles trapped in the tissue. It can no longer perform its function of oxygen transfer. COPD renders the patient unable to breathe.Marijuana affects the lungs in the same way. The brain tissue of marijuana smokers at the microscopic easily shows the effect of the THC on the brain tissues at the microscopic level.
    The human body is finely balanced with each organ performing specific functions and depending on each other to perform its own particular function. Thus the liver performs like a chemical plant, detoxifying the poisons we put into our bodies. If that function is disturbed it has an effect on the entire system. the kidneys do not detoxify like the liver, but it filters some of the bad things.Anything that does not belong in the body is bad for its functions. Marijuana, is bad for the body, Alcohol is bad for the body, but the effect of alcohol can be countered by giving the liver a chance to do it’s job of detoxification. Liver cells can grow back and resume their function if given the chance.This is why some drinkers can drink alcohol for a lifetime without lasting damage to the liver. Thus an alcoholic can recover. Marijuana destroys brain cells, which do not grow back. The cumulative result is thus much more detrimental.
    Well Well always accuses me,constantly, of writing rubbish, and I am often tempted to keep my knowledge and experience to myself, but my conscience does not allow me to read what is written; unlike Well Well, I read everything, and come to my conclusions when I have finished, and do nothing about it. To my way of thinking that is the only way we can understand what the writers’ motivation is. I thus have to counter the contributions that I deem to be misleading, whether others agree with my contribution or not.As a consequence I find myself on these blogs all the time.I have to try and teach others what I have learned over the years.
    Unfortunately, having learned, I cannot unlearn.

  48. David Avatar
    David

    @Alvin

    Your last comment makes sense, let us see if rebuttals are devoid of emotion and attach your position.

  49. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    So Alvin…how would you define ACs brain. Anyway as we can all agree abusing anything is dangerous, I could swear it is the overuse of cocaine permanently kills brain cells, will check it out later. I am sure you know what renowned researches say about the effects of one thing today, within 2 years they reverse their conclusions based on more refined and defined research, so whatever you may have learned about individual substances 50 years ago will certainly not apply today and sticking to something outdated can be just as dangerous. The researches and scientists of yesteryear did not have the technology and tools of those of today, they have gotten better at extracting toxic properties…heck….they can actually remove potential anything from a foetus before it’s birth. So removing dangerous properties from a plant is nothing….Alvin you are watching unstoppable evolution right before your eyes…live with it.

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    “SCIENCE

    FEBRUARY 5, 2015
    MARIJUANA DOES NOT KILL BRAIN CELLS? NEW 2015 STUDY DISPROVES 2014 CLAIMS

    MARYAM LOUISE

    Is an egg frying in a pan a good representation of your brain on drugs? Evidently not! University of Louisville sports fans, stay tuned because the neuroscience department at that school just cleared all pot smokers of their paranoia concerning losing brain cells by smoking marijuana.

    If someone tells you that you are killing brain cells by smoking marijuana, you can now tell them with science that they are wrong. A new study published in late January 2015 proves that marijuana does not kill brain cells. This serious research may come as a surprise to some considering most marijuana headlines have to do with older people that drive around in a van with weed in it for almost a decade.”

    Alvin…..see for yourself, your information is outdated, based on studies 50 years ago, you need to be brought into the 21st century instead of spreading disinformation. You can google university information.

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