Hey Dummy! Smoking pot makes you Stupid!!

[VaticanAssassin]

If you are a kid at any rate.... Can not find anything on the science behind this but it would not surprise me. I think we all have met the guy that smokes everyday, and after awhile even when they are not high they seem high. We called them burnouts.

It also says more kids in high school smoke pot more often than cigarettes now... A nation of dummies is getting dumber.

Oh well, all things in moderation is what I always say.....


Pot Makes Kids Stupid: An extensive and broad study out of New Zealand finds that frequent marijuana use in people under 18 results in a measurable loss of IQ, the BBC reports.

Researchers followed 1,000 people from childhood to 38, so they were able to track changes in them before they started using cannabis, if they did.

The study took into account other factors such as education and drug and alcohol use, and found that those who smoked pot at least four times a week before the age of 18 suffered an average 8-point IQ loss. The IQ points did not fully return if the subjects stopped or reduced smoking.

The conclusion? Experts feel that marijuana smoking is relatively safe for adult brains, but it's dangerous for brains that are still developing.

Val Curran of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and University College London told the BBC: "What it shows is if you are a really heavy stoner there are going to be consequences, which I think most people would accept." via the BBC

 

[kbate]

My own theory is that making new threads to repeat something already said in a Vetteman Thread is what makes you stupid.

Sure sure, impeach my limited data and the narrow scope of the study.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

My own theory is that making new threads to repeat something already said in a Vetteman Thread is what makes you stupid.

Sure sure, impeach my limited data and the narrow scope of the study.

My own theory is that people who repeat something they already said are stupider than people that repeat something someone else has already said when they were not around....

Sure sure...

 

[run_silent]

My own theory is that making new threads to repeat something already said in a Vetteman Thread is what makes you stupid.

Sure sure, impeach my limited data and the narrow scope of the study.

Are those your real breasts in the pic?

Yes, I'm impolite and evil.

 

[killallhippies]

oh well. if true i'm still in the gifted range. big fucking deal.

 

[Lancecastor]

Too much anything will warp the teenage mind...just look around the GB to see the results.

Pot is pretty much the most benign recreational substance available to anyone, teens included, so it's relative.

A few points off some kid's IQ is a much better alternative to the things they do after drinking a quart of booze.

 

[Joeybagadonuts]

If you are a kid at any rate.... Can not find anything on the science behind this but it would not surprise me. I think we all have met the guy that smokes everyday, and after awhile even when they are not high they seem high. We called them burnouts.

It also says more kids in high school smoke pot more often than cigarettes now... A nation of dummies is getting dumber.

Oh well, all things in moderation is what I always say.....


Pot Makes Kids Stupid: An extensive and broad study out of New Zealand finds that frequent marijuana use in people under 18 results in a measurable loss of IQ, the BBC reports.

Researchers followed 1,000 people from childhood to 38, so they were able to track changes in them before they started using cannabis, if they did.

The study took into account other factors such as education and drug and alcohol use, and found that those who smoked pot at least four times a week before the age of 18 suffered an average 8-point IQ loss. The IQ points did not fully return if the subjects stopped or reduced smoking.

The conclusion? Experts feel that marijuana smoking is relatively safe for adult brains, but it's dangerous for brains that are still developing.

Val Curran of the British Association for Psychopharmacology and University College London told the BBC: "What it shows is if you are a really heavy stoner there are going to be consequences, which I think most people would accept." via the BBC

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to stop smoking weed and start drinking alcohol.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I have a cold/allergies??

Mom!!

 

[Busybody]

My own theory is that making new threads to repeat something already said in a Vetteman Thread is what makes you stupid.

Sure sure, impeach my limited data and the narrow scope of the study.

*views post*

A stunningly brilliant post

Filled with wit and pathos

Replete with evocative emotion

*puffs on more shit*

Cough coghh

Did someone say STEW PID?

You can calls me STEW

 

[BotanyBoy]

I'm sold...

 

[Wings]

I'm sold...

Please try not to interject logic in to a VatAss thread.

*nods*

 

[sweepthefloor]

I never liked the feeling.

I don't think it is as bad for the brain as alcohol. I have not seen any person in an ICU bed near death from smoking pot.

 

[semen4her]

Experts feel that marijuana smoking is relatively safe for adult brains, but it's dangerous for brains that are still developing

Well duh.

Weed also helps to keep murder rates low because it's a lot of work to murder, dispose of body, dispose of evidence, dispose of witnesses.

Never again. I'll just smoke weed.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Please try not to interject logic in to a VatAss thread.

*nods*

Go fluff something.... Or fluff something then read what I wrote and try to comprehend.

 

[Wings]

Go fluff something.... Or fluff something then read what I wrote and try to comprehend.

You really need to work on your insults.

 

[RjThoughts]

I'm sold...

Did he start as a teenager? I doubt it, since those around me that smoked from the age of 13 or so never attended college!

 

[killallhippies]

actually, come to think of it, i'm sure this really means anything for me. i smoked before i turned 18, but only briefly before i went straight edge for a few years. i didn't start smoking regularly until i was 19 or 20 and even then i always had periods where i smoked only very rarely mixed in with periods of heavy use.

so fuck you.

 

[oggbashan]

Some of the caveats in the research.

1. It doesn't apply to the much stronger skunk, only to the 'normal' cannabis that was available in New Zealand at the time. Skunk might be worse. We don't know.

2. Of the 1,000 people, only 40 confessed to smoking cannabis continually from an early age and therefore suffered a drop in IQ. Were the 40 the only honest ones?

3. There is a significant statistical margin of error in IQ tests. Were the results within that margin of error?

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Did he start as a teenager? I doubt it, since those around me that smoked from the age of 13 or so never attended college!

I smoke occasionally, most my friends do. My best friend can not go 18 holes with out hitting a "can of aim". Pot in moderation seems fine. It also makes sense that it is not good for a developing brain. Like I said, everyone knows a stereotypical burnout who has been waking and baking since high school. If you do not think excessive pot as a young adult makes you stupid than you probably are missing at least 8 IQ points....

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Some of the caveats in the research.

1. It doesn't apply to the much stronger skunk, only to the 'normal' cannabis that was available in New Zealand at the time. Skunk might be worse. We don't know.

2. Of the 1,000 people, only 40 confessed to smoking cannabis continually from an early age and therefore suffered a drop in IQ. Were the 40 the only honest ones?

3. There is a significant statistical margin of error in IQ tests. Were the results within that margin of error?

Agreed. I think the research is weak at best. My overall conclusion is based in real life observations and years of supplementing my allowance as a kid by selling.

 

[killallhippies]

most burnouts i've known did a good deal more than just smoke weed.

 

[jeninflorida]

Life is hard, and if smoking pot works for some people, let them smoke pot. however, maybe we need to be smart about this and ramp up production of brownies and Twinkies first.

we didn't win the war on booze, so WTF do these people think we can win the war on drugs?

legalize it, tax it, 86 the drug cartel's and DEA (and think about all the money we would save by shutting down the DEA

 

[oggbashan]

Agreed. I think the research is weak at best. My overall conclusion is based in real life observations and years of supplementing my allowance as a kid by selling.

Locally, cheap alcohol is the drug of choice for younger teenagers.

I don't know how it affects their IQ but local hospitals are seriously worried about the early onset of severe liver problems i.e. to people in their 20s.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Did he start as a teenager?

Don't know...don't care. The point is that some of the greatest people in history we know and love today as the best thinkers, scientist, doctors, philosophers, religious icons, artist, musicians etc. of all time!!!! From Segan, Hendrix and Ben Franklin to Jesus Christ himself.....

But the bottom line, it's my choice...and the gov. can't come up with ONE fucking reason why they should be able to take that choice from me aside from the fact that they are cronies....and their mob boss's fear they will lose a lot of money should they allow us an unimpeded choice.

I doubt it, since those around me that smoked from the age of 13 or so never attended college!

Losers are losers because they are losers not because of cannabis. If it were not pot it would be booze, gambling, porn, sex or any other addiction that would facilitate their escape from reality. I know/see potheads from EVERY walk of life. From surgeons and lawyers to homeless fucks who don't have a pot to piss in. The fact that people try and associate it with looserdom or being dangerous based on this study is silly.....

 

[RjThoughts]

I smoke occasionally, most my friends do. My best friend can not go 18 holes with out hitting a "can of aim". Pot in moderation seems fine. It also makes sense that it is not good for a developing brain. Like I said, everyone knows a stereotypical burnout who has been waking and baking since high school. If you do not think excessive pot as a young adult makes you stupid than you probably are missing at least 8 IQ points....

I never smoked, because, well, ANY smoke near me set off an asthmatic-like coughing fit.

I suffer from osteoarthritis, ya know, old high school injuries not properly diagnosed that come back to haunt you as you turn 40. Many have told me that a hit or two a day will make the pain go away. Um, yeah, but then once I'm on the foot not feeling the pain, I could do more damage to it.

Does marajuana promote joint - hahaha - recovery? No. Exercise seems to do it.

I know, not bashing you or those in this thread that do toke, just a rant about those idiots that have NOT felt the pain yet believe the internet bullshit.