What do you think of Marijuana?

[Kasz216]

Gnizmo said:

Kasz216 said:

 

Unless. You know the person beforehand and actually saw how ambitious they were in the first place and weren't actually treating them in a clinical way. That's the thing though. This isn't a clinical issue it's a good old neurochemost issue.

The frontal lobe controls motivation and a number of other things, marijuana causes damage to the frontol lobe making it less active.

Regardless, It effects people who injest it. The "high" is partially what does it. That's what effects your frontal lobe in the first place.

The damage isn't quite as bad as you seem to be making it out to be. Smoking a few joints is not the same as jamming a screw driver into your skull. It takes a long period of excessive use for the damage to become apparent. Most recreational users will not see any large permanent mental damage because they are not ingesting enough to cause any brain damage.

 

It really depends how you define a few.  It also depends on the individual person which is what makes such undertakings dangerous.

Even light usage can lead to blood flow problems which while not permanent can persist for up to a month after quitting for people who smoke as little as 3-4 joints a week.

Which is actually what i'd put below casual use.  To me casual user would be someone who smokes about 5 joints a week.  There is about 60 joints in an ounce 

I know when my friends started they went through about a eigth of an ounce a piece a week.  Which would be about 7 and a half joints worth.  Of course that's one of the problems with making something illegal.  It goes outside of the public view so very few people are educated on what amount of something is actually safe.