As far as teens smoking it and having the growth of their minds altered, well that is an ongoing study. Some people I have witnessed benefit from smoking weed, some get slower and lethargic and lazy. It all depends on the individual, however, like most nonsensical scientific diatribe, we all seem to get lumped into the ONE category.
People are all different in the way the makeup of their bodies respond to marijuana. I, personally, do not like the initial feeling of getting high, but I feel great shortly afterwards. Some people never know when to stop or moderate with marijuana use, thus abusing something that could be of benefit to them.
Once again, I feel this article has been manipulated by the big pharmaceutical industries and besides why are the pharma companies trying to create a synthetic form of marijuana and market it. Is it because there are more benefits to the use of MJ than not? If they can market a patent on this plant then I guess there are billions of dollars to be had now isn't there.
All this rhetoric about motor skills being slowed down and so forth. I have witnessed people becoming heightened in their awareness, so once again the individual has been wrongly categorized by pseudo science. It all depends on the dose, besides shouldn't we be concerned of the millions of people driving in their vehicles everyday that have just taken their pharma medications and are completely impaired at the wheel of their 4000lb vehicle??!!! Yes, really now, wake up. More people are impaired by prescription drugs than alcohol and marijuana combined. But I guess most people would not comprehend this primarily because most people live in a comatose-brainwashed state of mind since the introduction of chemtrail pollutants and microwave radiation and whatever else the controlling forces of this messed up planet would throw at us.
Also, when you grow marijuana under synthetic light and unnatural soil and with chemical bug sprays, it is not the natural plant anymore and yes, you may call it a drug since the original intent of the plant has been altered. So who is to blame for this then? The ones who want to control MJ!! If it was a free plant, and notice I did not say LEGALIZED!! , all would be well on this planet. Man has not learned to leave things alone, especially the creators laws. Until then, my name is Kevin.
Marijuana and Schizophrenia
One day, a year or two before his death, I tried a small amount of his "medication", pot he said was from Thailand, only the 2nd time in my life to do so. It made me so extremely paranoid for the few hours it was in my system, I almost went to the ER. It makes me shudder to think how many teenagers are smoking it daily thinking it's harmless. Until you've watched a loved one falling apart before your very eyes, you don't really know.
Slowed Brain Function
People who smoke pot and drive are no different than those who drink and drive, or take prescription medication and drive - all have impaired thinking and "slowed brain functioning"!!
Anyone who believes the fantasy that pot is harmless is living in their own fantasy world.
Perhaps people need to work as a death investigator and see what the "harmless" pot does to people. Driving while only smoking pot has killed the driver as well as those innocent other people either in the same vehicle as the "slowed brain functioning" pot smoker, or an innocent sober driver in another vehicle. Pot is a depressant and I cannot count the number of suicides that have occurred with the only thing in the person's system was THC!!!
I don't care what another person does to their own minds and bodies, however, let's quit the pretending that pot is harmless and cures so many ailments. If they want to promote it as a medicine, then regulate it as such.
I personally have seen way too many people affected by pot. Just as some people are more hyper on alcohol, so are some people on pot. Another lie is that all people who ingest pot are mellow. That is as wrong as saying all people who drink are hyper and crazy.
It always amazes me how people also claim that pot is not addicting. I want to know why then do they spend so much time getting their next fix of pot? If they spent as much time trying to get a job as they do to score some weed they might just lead a happier life and not be so depressed!!
I also personally know several individuals who smoked/ingested pot for many years only to be later diagnosed with BiPolar Disorders. Again, like the issues explained in this article continual use of marijuana might just get the user a serious mental disorder by altering their brain functions with what they think is "harmless"!!
Slowed Brain Function
Too much water can be damaging to ones health. What the study neglects to do is determine how much is too much. There is risk in almost everything. As far as marijuana use, we're talking about a broad spectrum of use by people.
When we're talking about addiction, different substances have different addiction profiles. Someone can be addicted to heroin or smoke cigarettes but still lead a normal life.
btw I don't use marijuana.
Research
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctTFWzrfN4o
and SPECT scan images of drugs like marijuana on the brain: http://www.amenclinics.com/index.php/the-science/spect-gallery/item/alcohol-and-drug-abuse?category_id=129#alchA1
Marijuana and the Teenage Brain
Marijuana and Mental Health Issues
My son was diagnosed with Schizoeffective when he was 20 years old. The illness runs in the family as his father had it also. We have learned to control it via a combination of diet, supplements, meds AND cannabis.
Without all three he quickly goes downhill. It has taken us 10 years to get to where we are now. I don't know about the teenage use and the connection with the illness I just know it runs in the family. But I do know without it now he has issues. We have had him tested several times for temporal lobe epilepsy as it can have the same symptoms as schizophrenia and it has been proven cannabis use can help improve it but so far they have not been able to find any signs of it with my son.
Whether it was genetics or cannabis use that caused this illness for my son I don't know but I do know now without it his brain does not function normally.
I would strongly suggest that if anyone has a teenager and if there is any history of mental illness in your family, share this information with your teenager. Mental illness is very devastating and robs you of your future.
Slowed Brain Function
