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A comment on U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain.

Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by Medicalidiot on Thursday August 29, 2019 @07:34PM (#20834718)
THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) activates cannabinol receptors in one's brain whenever they smoke cannabis. These receptors are responsible to stimulating hunger (why you get munchies) but they also stimulate something called long term depression, which is the process by which your brain forgets memories. The effects take years to decades for anything significant enough to precipitate.

Now, I'm not against smoking cannabis just like I'm not against drinking alcohol. I'm for people understanding the risk factors and being fully informed before they make a decision.

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Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by MiroF on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:34AM (#20836168)
Source? I would love to be fully informed but I don't think the science is nearly as settled as you are making it out to be
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Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by Medicalidiot on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:11PM (#20839940)
I was going off my undergraduate neuroscience course when I asked my professor who has his doctorate in neurophysiology about long term cannabis use. Looking at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabis#...) you're right that it's fairly inconclusive and there may be some cofounding variables at play which are preventing us from assigning a firm sequela. Active cannabis users will have memory deficits.
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Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by rewgs on Thursday August 29, 2019 @08:20PM (#20834910)
> The effects take years to decades for anything significant enough to precipitate.

This sentence is weird to me. Can you rephrase?

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Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by craftyguy on Thursday August 29, 2019 @09:11PM (#20835165)
They are trying to say that THC can cause depression, but it can take many years. I'm just clarifying (and not downvoting, like the rest of 'hacker' 'news'.. lol) and do not necessarily agree/disagree with OP
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Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by will123195 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @09:26PM (#20835236)
long-term "depression" (LTD) is an activity-dependent reduction in the efficacy of neuronal synapses
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Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by deelowe on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:55PM (#20835614)
That doesn't sound like what they were trying to say.
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Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the De... by craftyguy on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:39AM (#20836183)
.. then please do elaborate/explain away.... FFS your comment is not at all helpful.
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