Cannabis creates mental illness

[tiswas]

I read this in the best newspaper of UK, The Daily Mail, and it is all true.
HA HA schrooms and cannabis today, tommorrow the local asylum.

[punjabibeard]

more likely the heavy metals in the tap water used to cultivate the dope is the leading cause of teh schizoidz :cool:
either that or smelly dredlocks honkeys are foolishly planting pre devoloped governmental strains :o

[bennett211085]

Yes cannabis has rotted my brain and turned me into a scitzophrenic serial killer.

[punjabibeard]

you talk as if their is a crossbow pointed towards your marshmellow brain lad ;)

[sangye]

I don't believe scitzophrenic is a mental illness,,just a different view of things thats all...

[bennett211085]

you talk as if their is a crossbow pointed towards your marshmellow brain lad ;)

No, I'm sorry but you've got it all wrong.

[bennett211085]

Health reminder:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/392461

[cf24]

more likely the heavy metals in the tap water used to cultivate the dope is the leading cause of teh schizoidz :cool:
either that or smelly dredlocks honkeys are foolishly planting pre devoloped governmental strains :o

A strain called G-13 was allegedly hybridized by the CIA in the 70's at a government facility in Mississippi. Sensi Seeds of Holland still have this variety today, although it is now crossed with another variety. I think it was more to do with breeding stronger varieties at the time rather than anything else.....

[malvern]

it's not the drug but the mind set using them

tiswas you have an intrest in drugs .. everychance you get you bring them up..I read you had depression ( not drug induced i take it) whats your blocked goals and attacking this subject matter does it allow you to run away from these goals....

or are you trying to find out who uses drugs so that the police can kick down there doors......what the agenda here..seems dangerous:mad:

[joss classey]

fuck the daily mail. i fucking hate that narrow minded scaremongering piece of shit

[jim fear]

Cannabis doesn’t harm anyone, I used to think I was mentally ill but the voice in my head informs me that infact it’s the newspapers who are mentally and now I live in marsh mellow land with santa and we make space ships out of twine, after all its only 4056 shopping flugnudles to winkypluck!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[supertzar]

Oh, yes. You are 25% more likely to develop mental illness if you smoke pot, according to the hospital where I work. :rolleyes: Never mind that a lot of people predisposed to mental illness smoke pot to help them with their symptoms. Can you wrap your grey matter around that, Tizzie? Correlation not equalling causation?

[cf24]

Cannabis doesn’t harm anyone, I used to think I was mentally ill but the voice in my head informs me that infact it’s the newspapers who are mentally and now I live in marsh mellow land with santa and we make space ships out of twine, after all its only 4056 shopping flugnudles to winkypluck!! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Jim, can I have some of what you've been taking.....:D

[punjabibeard]

tiswas is a innocent sikh girl , she cannot be seen purchasing drugs from naferous gents of the night
so instead i purpose she get high off her bottom bagels instead ;)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/406067.stm

[sangye]

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No!, i don't have any shrooms


http://www.killsometime.com/Pictures/images/pic1090.jpg

[bennett211085]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/337865

[2013]

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[revelations]

Well said mate! Yeah id watch what you say to tiswas AKA The Grassor are you trying to find out who uses drugs so that the police can kick down there doors......what the agenera here..seems dangerous:mad:

[punjabibeard]

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4534457286984009082
;)

[kweli]

I read this in the best newspaper of UK, The Daily Mail, and it is all true.
HA HA schrooms and cannabis today, tommorrow the local asylum.

So you trust and believe in the media? If so, why are you on this forum? Please don't think I'm being mean, I just don't understand. :confused:

[jologriffiths]

I read this in the best newspaper of UK, The Daily Mail, and it is all true.
HA HA schrooms and cannabis today, tommorrow the local asylum.

There are so many ingestibles that cause the mental breakdown of human beings and one of them is The Daily Mail!:mad:

Human beings are being f****d up deliberately by our wonderful lawmakers, this emphasis on the negative side effects of cannabis is pathetic, especially when you see what alchohol abuse is responsible for: chronic and fatal illness of the liver, heart, brain and kidneys. Not to mention the mental illness of domestic violence that is almost always connected to alchohol abuse and has led to many deaths of victims (women and children) of domestic violence.

Have you forgotten who benefits from the sale of any drug, especially illegal ones? Military, Elite, Governments and the Mafia.
The addicts are the victims.
Our society is not educated to deal with these substances, we are not aware of our true potential as multidimensional beings and therefore those who are sensitive to to other dimensions become afraid, they are invaded and they are unable to understand what is happening to them, they behave erratically and ignorant people say they are mad, they are then classed as schizophrenic and worse.
Like any consciousness changing substance (unadulterated) cannabis is a sacred drug, it opens the chakras and allows you to see beyond the fascade and illusion we are persistently presented, (hence the negative press!)
It will not suit everyone...

Please do not be fooled by these mainstream hypnotists, they have an agenda. It is unfair to mock those who are mentally ill, do you know their medical or emotional history? it is only your asumption that these people are ill through cannabis abuse.:(

ONE LOVE

[auron]

Best post I've seen in ages!

:):):):):):):)

[phoebe]

The weed that is around today is far different
to that which I used to smoke in my younger days.
GM superskunk stuff.
Nasty.
Whilst I wouldn't agree that it 'creates' mental illness
I would say that, as with most things, if someone
already has a leaning toward mental illness,
then this horrible stuff could be the thing that
sends them over the edge.

[kweli]

Cannabis has been used by different Civilisations/Races worldwide for thousands of years.

Cannabis: A History - Martin Booth. A great read, I would highly recommend it.

To some it's the classic "gateway drug", to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provide relief from crippling pain. Some fear it is a dangerous drug with addictive properties; to others still it is a legal anomaly and should be decriminalized. Whatever the viewpoint, and by whatever name it is known, cannabis--or marijuana, hashish, dope, pot, weed, grass, ganja--incites debate at every level, and the effect it has on the cultures and economics of every corner of the globe is undeniable.

In this definitive study, Martin Booth crafts a tale of medical advance, religious enlightenment, political subterfuge and human rights; of law enforcement and custom officers, cunning smugglers, street pushers, gang warfare, writers, artists, musicians, and happy-go-lucky hippies and potheads.

Booth chronicles the fascinating and often mystifying process through which cannabis, a relatively harmless substance, became outlawed throughout the Western world, and the devastating effect such legislation has on the global economy. Above all, he demonstrates how the case for decriminalization remains one of the twenty-first century's hottest topics.

[stargazer]

There are so many ingestibles that cause the mental breakdown of human beings and one of them is The Daily Mail!:mad:

Human beings are being f****d up deliberately by our wonderful lawmakers, this emphasis on the negative side effects of cannabis is pathetic, especially when you see what alchohol abuse is responsible for: chronic and fatal illness of the liver, heart, brain and kidneys. Not to mention the mental illness of domestic violence that is almost always connected to alchohol abuse and has led to many deaths of victims (women and children) of domestic violence.

Have you forgotten who benefits from the sale of any drug, especially illegal ones? Military, Elite, Governments and the Mafia.
The addicts are the victims.
Our society is not educated to deal with these substances, we are not aware of our true potential as multidimensional beings and therefore those who are sensitive to to other dimensions become afraid, they are invaded and they are unable to understand what is happening to them, they behave erratically and ignorant people say they are mad, they are then classed as schizophrenic and worse.
Like any consciousness changing substance (unadulterated) cannabis is a sacred drug, it opens the chakras and allows you to see beyond the fascade and illusion we are persistently presented, (hence the negative press!)
It will not suit everyone...

Please do not be fooled by these mainstream hypnotists, they have an agenda. It is unfair to mock those who are mentally ill, do you know their medical or emotional history? it is only your asumption that these people are ill through cannabis abuse.:(

ONE LOVE

True. Its only in your head what is happening to you on drugs.

They just enhance the reality.

Mostly happens what media is telling you that should happen, you believe and you manifest. Simple.

And yes, pot is sacred, that's why its illegal and the most "dangerous" on the planet.

All you hear is about pot smoking "loosers" and how it leads to heavy drugs - which were put there to draw people from pot into something worse - more intense experience of the shit they've putting in media - what will happen to you if you are on that drug.

I read this in the best newspaper of UK, The Daily Mail, and it is all true.
HA HA schrooms and cannabis today, tommorrow the local asylum.

I think you are missing the point of drugs. And along the rest of the population of this world - buying into media belief control.

Do you have any idea how many people smoke pot and live their lives normally if not even more creatively?

I've seen many, from 20 to 60 - from doctor to farmer, they just don't want the crazy world to know.

And just because maybe you don't see positive effect of pot, doesn't mean they are not there.

[supertzar]

If you think skunk is GM, there is something you need to know. It's not. I have heard this over and over, mainly on boards with British people like this one and the old forum. Do your homework before spouting absurdities like this. It's regular cannabis BRED from potent strains from around the world. Skunk#1 in particular is a stable strain developed from Afghani, Columbian and Mexican parents. There is no "GM" pot. If you think there is, then you don't understand what genetic modification is or you have some information I don't.

[kasalt]

Oh, yes. You are 25% more likely to develop mental illness if you smoke pot, according to the hospital where I work. :rolleyes: Never mind that a lot of people predisposed to mental illness smoke pot to help them with their symptoms. Can you wrap your grey matter around that, Tizzie? Correlation not equalling causation?

It is undoubtedly the case that people can often feel the onset of something wrong--even if only on the subconscious level--and are attempting to self-medicate. And why wouldn't this be the case with cannabis when we know it is the case with tobacco:

MOST PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA SMOKE TOBACCO, SAYS RESEARCH

Eighty per cent of people with schizophrenia smoke tobacco...

http://www.mydr.com.au/default.asp?article=3076


Smoking in schizophrenia – an attempt to self medicate?

It is thought that nicotine acts as a form of ‘self-medication’ for people with schizophrenia, producing a number of beneficial effects despite the negative impact of smoking on long term health.

Many smokers with schizophrenia report that smoking helps to reduce their symptoms. This has been confirmed by studies showing that smoking is related to a reduction in the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, such as lack of motivation and social withdrawal. It is thought that this effect is caused by nicotine’s ability to raise dopamine levels in areas of the brain involved in attention and engaging with one’s surroundings. Atypical antipsychotic drugs that produce a reduction in negative symptoms, including Clozapine, are thought to act in a similar way.

Reduction of medication side effects

There is also evidence that smoking may reduce the unpleasant side effects of antipsychotic medication including stiffness and rigidity of movement. Again, this effect is though to be produced by the action of nicotine stimulating dopamine release in the brain.

Nicotine has also been found to counteract the adverse side-effects of certain antipsychotics on some kinds of mental function. A study of patients taking the drug haloperidol who were given nicotine skin patches found them to be less affected by side effects such as the slowing of thought and reduction of attention span.

Improvements in attention and working memory

The areas of the brain thought to be involved in working memory, attention span and motivation have large numbers of receptors for the nicotine molecule. Experiments have shown that nicotine improves these functions both in smokers with schizophrenia and non smoking people with no mental illness. However, in general, people with schizophrenia show greater improvements than the general population. This suggests that there may be genetic differences that determine the extent to which a person will be affected by the effects of nicotine.

http://www.mentalhealthcare.org.uk/research/expanded/index.php?id=21


Smoking tobacco 'may ease' some schizophrenia symptoms

THE effects of nicotine could help relieve the symptoms of schizophrenia in some sufferers, researchers suggested today.

The study, in Granada in Spain, looked at the theory that smoking is a form of "self-medication" for people with schizophrenia. They found that for mildly dependent smokers, nicotine could have a beneficial effect on their symptoms.

The researchers looked at 250 patients in two community mental health centres - 69 per cent of whom were current smokers.

They found that some symptoms were less frequent in mildly dependent smokers compared to non-smokers or highly dependent smokers.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=225772005

[phoebe]

If you think skunk is GM, there is something you need to know. It's not. I have heard this over and over, mainly on boards with British people like this one and the old forum. Do your homework before spouting absurdities like this. It's regular cannabis BRED from potent strains from around the world. Skunk#1 in particular is a stable strain developed from Afghani, Columbian and Mexican parents. There is no "GM" pot. If you think there is, then you don't understand what genetic modification is or you have some information I don't.

OK, I may have the details wrong
but it sure is headfucking stuff, totally
different to what I used to smoke a few years ago.

[Mo0n5tar]

I read this in the best newspaper of UK, The Daily Mail, and it is all true.
HA HA schrooms and cannabis today, tommorrow the local asylum.

No my friend, i create mental illness, amongst other symptoms of unrest, upon misguided multitudes of babylon, hence they're need to lock me up, man fear what they can't conquer, what they don't understand, and what does marijuana do>? it make man free, it make man question.

Why they no legalise weed?

Because it make man rich, if we were all growin erb then we'd all make a comfortable living, i would be better off and the oil companies would lose out, that why they keep coming up with this bogus mental illness, excuse me, i have news: society=mental illness, television=mental illness, babylon is a sinking ship do not by in to it's medicated mind-state!!

[malvern]

I read this in the best newspaper of UK, The Daily Mail, and it is all true.
HA HA schrooms and cannabis today, tommorrow the local asylum.

No my friend, i create mental illness, amongst other symptoms of unrest, upon misguided multitudes of babylon, hence they're need to lock me up, man fear what they can't conquer, what they don't understand, and what does marijuana do>? it make man free, it make man question.

Why they no legalise weed?

Because it make man rich, if we were all growin erb then we'd all make a comfortable living, i would be better off and the oil companies would lose out, that why they keep coming up with this bogus mental illness, excuse me, i have news: society=mental illness, television=mental illness, babylon is a sinking ship do not by in to it's medicated mind-state!!

mickyjaystoned
love and respect, if only man was that free.........oh but we are in our innerself

freedom for all :)

[jim fear]

I think the crossbreeding of the strongest strains of dope are making it worse for people, their brain can’t deal with the large amounts of chemicals from it, and over time it can make people ill. I’ve seen it happen to others and its happened to me. In nature the chemicals would be far fewer and the high no doubt would be a lot less intense.

Certain people have a higher tolerance to it, and most people will be fine with it in moderation but yes it is fucking people up usually people who abuse it and use to much the question really is, is it making people ill Or are some people already ill and it develops their under laying condition. It also makes people lazy with over use and dulls the down personality wise when they aren’t stoned.

Its also making people sit around and talk to one another with the TV off, while totally relaxed and in Tune with one another, while they discuss all sorts of stuff and compare notes of observations. Sure they talk about bullshit most the time but sometimes they talk and it gets deep and all of a sudden “OH SHIT….IT ALL FITS TOGETHER!!

Then the next day “ That was a good night last night what were we talking about again? It all made sense at the time but I’ve forgot, Ahh well back to sleep”

You’ll read all that in any old paper (apart from the end bit)

[lookfar]

So you trust and believe in the media? If so, why are you on this forum? Please don't think I'm being mean, I just don't understand. :confused:

Hehe, you're not the only one kweli, but it takes all sorts I suppose, lol!!:rolleyes::D

[john white]

To say that cannabis (or for that matter, ANY substance) causes mental illness is to reveal a high level of ignornance about what mental illness is

Society causes mental illness

Every petty oppression, distortion, repression or imposition, every act of dehumanisation, roboticisation or catagorisation, every injustice, every hypocrasy, every deciet, every lie, every spin, every cruelty and every murder

What substance uses may do is unlock consciousness in such a way as to bring the toxins out in a way which society finds hard to confront, and thus must label as "IN-sanity": but the process society (itself mad) calls mad is nothing else but the process that leads to healing, balance and clarity, IF not distorted and repressed by big pharma psychiatry

"Schizophrenia is a perfectly healthy response to an insane world":

R.D. Laing, probably the greatest genius of the mind of the 20th century

Google and learn people!

[auron]

To say that cannabis (or for that matter, ANY substance) causes mental illness is to reveal a high level of ignornance about what mental illness is

Society causes mental illness

Every petty oppression, distortion, repression or imposition, every act of dehumanisation, roboticisation or catagorisation, every injustice, every hypocrasy, every deciet, every lie, every spin, every cruelty and every murder

What substance uses may do is unlock consciousness in such a way as to bring the toxins out in a way which society finds hard to confront, and thus must label as "IN-sanity": but the process society (itself mad) calls mad is nothing else but the process that leads to healing, balance and clarity, IF not distorted and repressed by big pharma psychiatry

"Schizophrenia is a perfectly healthy response to an insane world":

R.D. Laing, probably the greatest genius of the mind of the 20th century

Google and learn people!
Cheers for that John!!

I have just posted that on another forum i go on occasionally. :D

[soglad]

Shut up Tiswas! :D

[malvern]

To say that cannabis (or for that matter, ANY substance) causes mental illness is to reveal a high level of ignornance about what mental illness is

Society causes mental illness

Every petty oppression, distortion, repression or imposition, every act of dehumanisation, roboticisation or catagorisation, every injustice, every hypocrasy, every deciet, every lie, every spin, every cruelty and every murder

What substance uses may do is unlock consciousness in such a way as to bring the toxins out in a way which society finds hard to confront, and thus must label as "IN-sanity": but the process society (itself mad) calls mad is nothing else but the process that leads to healing, balance and clarity, IF not distorted and repressed by big pharma psychiatry

"Schizophrenia is a perfectly healthy response to an insane world":

R.D. Laing, probably the greatest genius of the mind of the 20th century

Google and learn people!


we could go deeper and ask "Insanity, what is sanity?". keep them coming john

freedom for all :)

[_invisibleplane_]

here's what id say is the answer..for those who have had experience with cannabis and mushrooms/dmt, they will know what i mean..for those who have not had exp, don't expect to get a grasp unless you exp it first..otherwise it is just an ignorant opinion

they are tools, amplifiers, enhancements, for what and who you are...your original thoughts are only magnified...there is no destructive possession going on with these 'evil drugs'

so..if one is unbalanced mentally..before they use these tools they would already have had such thoughts..so it is not that they bring on such negative thoughts/actions, but they just bring out who you really are on the inside...

thus if you are an open, generally harmonious, honest person..you're in for an enjoyable time :)

[sevenworlds]

I believe many of the people classed as having mental illness from cannabis may have actually woken up spiritually to some degree without the proper context to realise it as that.

How many times do we hear the "my 16yr old was doing great at school, all set to go to uni and then cannabis turned him into a loser..." story? If you've been brought up in an academic environment, with everyone around you well-programmed and a lot expected of you, and then you see it all as a piece of shit, you may well think you're going mad. And it's guaranteed if you don't, the people around will convince you of that.

[deca]

Michael Persinger - Psychotropic drugs and generated neuro-realities.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4292093832329014323&q=Persinger&total=93&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Persinger has a helmet - he can replicate drug states at will as ... all » well as claiming to have solved the alien encounter experience.

Really interesting lecture. But this is only partially true and not an objective solution to how reality is manufactured.

[tinmenace]

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[tinmenace]

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[tinmenace]

Actually on a more serious note, I think that being stoned for 20 years had not served my brother very well.

He acts like he has mental illness. I don't know what caused it, really. But the one consistent thing in his life has been his spliff.

[kasalt]

There is use, and then there is abuse.

[sevenworlds]

He acts like he has mental illness. I don't know what caused it, really. But the one consistent thing in his life has been his spliff.








And his mind.

[spirit is corrupt]

Well, personally, i believe cannabis to be much like everything else . . . . .too much is bad. I think the culture of cannabis for the ancients and for primitive peoples is/would have been a lot different to our culture today surrounding it. Abusing the substance? . . . . of course it leads to mental illness . . . it is the mental that it effects anyway is it not? thus it would logically follow that abusing it would create mental problems. Yes its sad the way the negative is so emphasized but anyone who believes they can smoke joint after joint, day after day for a long period of time (im talking YEARS here) without suffering some kind of consequence is simply being nieve . . . i would politely suggest

To brush off Schizophrenia as some kind of disguised awakening or some such other rubbish that has been mentioned in this thread is to display magnificent ignorance to the horribleness of that particular mental illness . . . .really guys . . . it is very serious . . .and many here seem to have laughed it off . . . you should be ashamed. I have had experience with Schizoprenia or something similar ( a friend of my best friend) and sadly cannabis abuse played a major roll in that. Wether it was the catalyst or simply a perpetuator is not clear but alas it cannot be ignored

I think there is a huge difference between waking up and breaking down DISGUISED as waking up. Cannabis was a catalyst for me to higher levels of thinking and perception but further on down that line combined with abuse lies the negative extreme.

I have experienced a slide into paranoia and inability to interact comfortably and clearly with this reality in the past through far far too much cannabis smoking and from my personal experience i believe there is something important to be said about the risks and i think that it is important for people to be aware of this and be aware of how to use properly and sensibly. When this is the case then cannabis is fantastic.

As for the comparisons to things like alcohol . . .yes it is important to do this to highlight various points but it is also important to address each one in isolation too. You can't make an excuse for something simply by comparing it to something worse . . .that notion is surely ridiculous?

I still smoke very occasionally (in the sun, in the sunny winter mornings, in the forest) but i generally prefer to have a clear head and to pursue spirituality and awaking in a different manner. There is much to be said for cannabis just as there is for other things but it is not the only thing on the planet. So be sensible and be open minded. Most importantly . . . .don't read the daily mail! there really is no point!

[pollock]

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=05l486mk31

;)
F

[lydia78]

I read this in the best newspaper of UK, The Daily Mail, and it is all true.
HA HA schrooms and cannabis today, tommorrow the local asylum.

You think the DM prints the truth with regards to weed,
that the DM doesn't have an agenda??
Tiswas, you of all the people I have 'met' on here,
needs a cheech and chong size spliff,
then you might actually have something worth contributing to as far as the weed debate goes.

[tiswas]

I do not need any form of drug, for I like to keep alert at all times.:)

[punjabibeard]

how can a dead person remain alert at all times? ;)

[lydia78]

I do not need any form of drug, for I like to keep alert at all times.:)

the DI forum could be argued as being a mental drug for some
threads have been created along the lines of 'im addicted to DI'
I don't think it's unfair to say that you have an 'addiction' to the forum
after all, didn't your hubby say the same?

[strider]

Agent tiswasn't... If you are sane, then I'm a mentally retarded smack freak who bangs up in his teeth..

[Mo0n5tar]

To say that cannabis (or for that matter, ANY substance) causes mental illness is to reveal a high level of ignornance about what mental illness is

Society causes mental illness

Every petty oppression, distortion, repression or imposition, every act of dehumanisation, roboticisation or catagorisation, every injustice, every hypocrasy, every deciet, every lie, every spin, every cruelty and every murder

What substance uses may do is unlock consciousness in such a way as to bring the toxins out in a way which society finds hard to confront, and thus must label as "IN-sanity": but the process society (itself mad) calls mad is nothing else but the process that leads to healing, balance and clarity, IF not distorted and repressed by big pharma psychiatry

"Schizophrenia is a perfectly healthy response to an insane world":

R.D. Laing, probably the greatest genius of the mind of the 20th century

Google and learn people!

Thats a great post:D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)

[2013]

If you are going to expressan opinion not your own at least have the willingness to look into other opinions as well .Its called a balanced view
Two sides to every story .:D
http://scienceblogs.com/omnibrain/2007/01/drug_derived_from_marijuana_su.php
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5581/danny07ks1.jpg
GW Pharmaceuticals has developed a diet drug derived from Marijuana which suppresses the appetite. This is especially surprising for obvious reasons - perhaps a little ironic?!
Clearly the marijuana plant contains many many different compounds - but who would have thought that one of them suppressed the urge to gorge yourself on cheeze doodles and icy pops. The drug will soon be entering into human trials to combat obesity.

Don't get too exited about getting high on the drug though since that doesn't happen to be one of the side effects. Well...that is unless you want to find the secret location where the Marijuana is being grown in southern England.:D
Question... could stoners take this drug before they smoked to alleviate the munchies?

[adimon]

Well...that is unless you want to find the secret location where the Marijuana is being grown in southern England.:D

And Eastern England, and Western England, and Northern, and Cornwall, and Scotland, and....well pretty much anywhere rural.

Where there's a barn (or a polytunnel) there's a way...

But, the side-effect of moving production into the UK, is the street volume has decreased.

So grow it yourself (risking prison), move to Portugal (not to everyone's taste) or...stop smoking. You'll feel much better I promise. "Trust me, I'm a toy demonstrator." Martin Clunes, 'Staggered'

[john white]

To say that cannabis (or for that matter, ANY substance) causes mental illness is to reveal a high level of ignornance about what mental illness is

Society causes mental illness

Every petty oppression, distortion, repression or imposition, every act of dehumanisation, roboticisation or catagorisation, every injustice, every hypocrasy, every deciet, every lie, every spin, every cruelty and every murder

What substance uses may do is unlock consciousness in such a way as to bring the toxins out in a way which society finds hard to confront, and thus must label as "IN-sanity": but the process society (itself mad) calls mad is nothing else but the process that leads to healing, balance and clarity, IF not distorted and repressed by big pharma psychiatry

"Schizophrenia is a perfectly healthy response to an insane world":

R.D. Laing, probably the greatest genius of the mind of the 20th century

Google and learn people!

Cheers for that John!!

I have just posted that on another forum i go on occasionally

It's just possible I may have had a toot when I wrote that last night...

Props to MickeyJay and Malvern too!

[lookfar]

Don't get too exited about getting high on the drug though since that doesn't happen to be one of the side effects. Well...that is unless you want to find the secret location where the Marijuana is being grown in southern England.:D
Question... could stoners take this drug before they smoked to alleviate the munchies?

Hehe, I prefer it the way it is & don't really get the munchies anymore, so I wouldn't wanna try that one, lol!;):D

& we need plenty of those "secret locations" too!!

[father_pyramid]

I agree with John's comment as well.

If Michael Tsarion has any great information, it is his stuff about the human psyche, which applies completely to this thread.

“Insanity is a perfectly sane reaction to an insane society.”

[eternal_spirit]

“Insanity is a perfectly sane reaction to an insane society.”

...................
Too true.

lack of MJ causes me mental problems :(

[eternal_spirit]

Aaron Sorkin, (http://www.jedbartlet.com/ap080301.html) creator of ''The West Wing".
Art Garfunkel , (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n275/a13.html?397) singer, Simon and Garfunkel.
Abbie Hoffman, (http://www.totse.com/en/drugs/marijuana/rmadness.html) Activist.
Al and Tipper Gore (http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a035de51e45.htm) Politicians
Aleister Crowley, (http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/roll_away.html) Author and Famous Satanist.
Alexander Dumas, (http://www.fvacc.org/wwwboard/messages/101.html) Author - "The Three Musketeers"
Ali Campbell, (http://wap.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_334610/0/) Singer with UB40
Alice B. Toklas. (http://www.cannabisculture.com/gallery/cook/cook.html) Famous Cook - Wrote recipe for Hash Fudge (http://www.cannabisculture.com/gallery/cook/cook.html#haschich) Filmed as. 'I Love You Alice B. Toklas' (http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/180010)
Allen Ginsberg, (http://www.marijuana-uses.com/examples/ginsberg.htm) Poet.
Andrea Corr, (http://uk.music.yahoo.com/011211/242/cl6gj.html) musician, "The Corrs".
Anjelica Huston, (http://users.lycaeum.org/%7Esky/data/aint/303b.htm) Actress.
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Actor. ``I did smoke a joint and I did inhale.'' (http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread14752.shtml)
Art Garfunkel. (http://www.floridatoday.com/%21NEWSROOM/peoplestoryP0123ART.htm) Singer of, "Simon and Garfunkel" fame.
Arthur Rimbaud. (http://www.fvacc.org/wwwboard/messages/101.html)
Balzac. (http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/article.cgi?num=1943)
Beatles. (http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column2.html)
Benjamin Franklin, Many claims but little proof. (http://www.slatts.fsworld.co.uk/famous/famous-notes.htm#Franklin)
Bill "...but I didn't inhale." Clinton, (http://zpub.com/un/billc-4.html) Politician.
Bill Gates. Not confirmed, just very strongly hinted at in his Playboy interview. (http://ei.cs.vt.edu/%7Ehistory/Bill.Gates.html)
Bill Murray (http://www.videoflicks.com/saturdaynightlive/bill_murray.htm) Arrested for possession. (http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/02/06/murray/%20Arrested%20for%20possession.)
Bing Crosby. (http://hometown.aol.com/trumpdace/myhomepage/tunes.html) Famous crooner of "I'm dreaming of a White Christmas". Now the Film "High Society" (http://www.classicmoviemusicals.com/hisoc.htm) makes sense!
Bix Beiderbecke (http://qconline.com/qchemp/qchc/bixbook.htm) Jazz musician.
Black Crowes, (http://www.hempfiles.com/various/music.shtml) musicians
Bob Denver, (http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/News/9808/28/showbuzz/) Star of "Gilligan's Island".
Bob Dylan, (http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column2.html) musician.
Bob Marley, (http://www.joewein.de/kaya.htm) musician
Burt Reynolds, actor. He left his first wife because of her drug use. But he has been seen in Cannabis Cafes. (http://www.abstracts.net/brad-pitt/)
Bruce Lee. (http://www.bruceandbrandon.info/indexfrm.php?name=/lee/bruce/essay.html)
Cab Calloway, Jazz musician. Claimed he only used it once. (http://www.chriscalloway.net/The-New-Live-Chris-Calloway-CD-songs.html)
Carl Sagan, (http://www.slatts.fsworld.co.uk/2http://www.marijuana-uses.com/examples/Mr_X.htm%22) Scientist - SiFi writer - film "Contact" More info here. (http://www.tfy.drugsense.org/SAGAN.HTM)
Carlos Santana (http://www.norml.org/facts/famous_arrests.shtml) musician.
Carrie Fischer, (http://users.lycaeum.org/%7Esky/data/aint/303b.htm) Actress
Charlie Sheen, (http://www.caderbooks.com/exmugs.html) actor.
Charlize Theron, (http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2404.html) Actress. More here. (http://www.newyorkish.com/newyorkish/2004/03/what_better_way.html)
Charles Beaudelaire, (http://www.fvacc.org/wwwboard/messages/101.html) Author.
Cheech Marin, (http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1996/oct/10-04-96/arts/arts1.html) Actor, Don Johnson's sidekick in the TV detective series "Nash Bridges." (http://www.goldmine.simplenet.com/cheech/)
Chris Conrad, (http://www.chrisconrad.com/articles/bio.media.html) Author and expert on Cannabis Hemp
Chris Farley. (http://www.fitshaced.com/5/rotting_flesh.html) Comedian.
Chrissie Hynde, (http://www.hempfiles.com/quotes/hynde.shtml) musician.
Chris Rock, (http://mrshowbiz.go.com/celebrities/people/chrisrock/bio.html) Actor, Comedian, Producer, Screenwriter.
Chubby Checker, (http://www.th-marschall.de/music_history/june/texte/23.htm) Musician. Sang; "Lets Twist Again".
Cilla Black, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2935396.stm) Musician and presenter. Tried it in the '60's but didn't like it.
Claire Rayner, (http://www.itn.co.uk/specials/June2001/0615cannabis.shtml) Agony Aunt.
Cody Kasch Actor. TV series Desperate Housewives (http://www.tv.com/story/story.html&story_id=362)
Conan O'Brian (http://nbctv.nbci.com/conan/) TV Host
Count Basie, Jazz Ban Leader. He was on an DEA file of marajuana users. (http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/48/anslinger.html)
Dame Margot Fonteyn, (http://webs.lanset.com/bookfolk/july-2.htm) Prima ballerina. Also see entries for Rudolf Nureyev. (http://www.slatts.fsworld.co.uk/famous.htm#Nureyev)
David Bailey, (http://www.lca-uk.org/displayitem.php?articleid=136) Photographer .
Dan Quayle (http://www.crrh.org/hempnews/hn_17.html) . Politician.
David Hockney, (http://www.lca-uk.org/displayitem.php?articleid=136) Artist.
Diego Rivera (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/kids/choc2morph/c2m3.htm) Mexican Artist
Dion Fortune (http://www.alchemylab.com/cannabis_stone5.htm) Welsh occultist.
Dionne Warwick, (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n905/a05.html?397) Famous singer of "Walk on by".
Dioscorides Pedanius, (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/medical/medpaper.htm) 1 st cent. AD. Greek physician. Wrote 'De Materia Medica', (http://www.lindesmith.org/library/pdf_files/hemp_for_headache.pdf) used for 1,500 years.
Dizzy Gillespie, (http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/30/vipers.html) Jazz musician He was on an DEA file of marajuana users. (http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/48/anslinger.html)
Dr Francis Crick. (http://www.drugtext.org/articles/TimesAd.html) Nobel Prize winner.
Dr Lester Grinspoon. (http://www.marijuana-uses.com/)
Dr R.D.Laing (http://www.drugtext.org/articles/TimesAd.html)
Dr W.B. O'Shaugnessy (http://www.rxmarihuana.com/wither_medical_marijuana.htm) Re-introduced cannabis to European medicine. (http://www.slatts.fsworld.co.uk/famous/famous-notes.htm#O%27Shaugnessy)
Drew Barrymore, (http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/drewbarrymore.html) actress.
Duke Ellington, Jazz Band Leader. He was on an DEA file of marajuana users. (http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/48/anslinger.html)
Elliott Gould. (http://www.elliottgould.net/archive/playboy.html) Actor.
Eminem, (http://www.onyx-group.com/CigarUse.htm) musician.
Emperor Liu Chi-nu, (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/first12000/1.htm) made medical recomendation for its use.
Emperor Shen-Nung, (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/first12000/1.htm) made first known medical recommendation (http://www.slatts.fsworld.co.uk/famous/famous-notes.htm#Shen) for its use.
Errol Flynn, (http://www.netasia.net/users/truehealth/Marijuana.htm) Actor
Evelyn Waugh. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,727088,00.html) Author.
Francis Ford Coppella, Film Director. Mentioned in "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind
Frances McDormand , (http://www.firteen.com/articles/80sbabes/frances/) Actress. Raising Arizona, Burning Mississippi, Fargo.
Fats Waller, (http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/references/potsongs.html) musician.
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (http://users.lycaeum.org/%7Esputnik/Ludlow/THE/) - wrote 'The Hasheesh Eater'.
Francois Rabelais. (http://www.hempworld.com/shop/chapter1_hemp.htm) 16 th French author. Recommended it as a food not a high.
Friedrich Nietzsche, (http://www.geocities.com/to_candylane/nietzsche2.html) Used it as a medicine.
Gary Johnson. (http://www.norml.org/recreational/thank_johnson.shtml) Governor of New Mexico - Reformer.
Gene Krupa, (http://www.drummerman.net/drugbust.html) Jazz musician.
George Gurdjieff (http://www.alchemylab.com/cannabis_stone5.htm) , Russian Mystic.
George W Bush (http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm) Politician and professional hypocrite.
George Melly, (http://www.lca-uk.org/displayitem.php?articleid=136) Jazz musician.
George Soros, (http://www.nationalfamilies.org/guide/gsoros.html) Financier and reformer.
George Washington (http://www.cannabis.com/untoldstory/hemp_2.shtml) , grew it (http://www.hempfiles.com/quotes/washington.shtml) and there is evidence that he prepared it for smoking. (http://www.hempfiles.com/quotes/washington2.shtml) And incidentally many other US presidents use to smoke Hemp.
Thomas Jefferson. (http://www.pdxnorml.org/7_presidents.html)
James Madison. (http://www.pdxnorml.org/7_presidents.html)
James Monroe. (http://www.pdxnorml.org/7_presidents.html)
Andrew Jackson, (http://www.pdxnorml.org/7_presidents.html)
Zachary Taylor. (http://www.pdxnorml.org/7_presidents.html)
Franklin Pierce. (http://www.pdxnorml.org/7_presidents.html)
Also see entries for Bill Clinton (http://www.slatts.fsworld.co.uk/famous.htm#clinton) and George Bush. (http://www.slatts.fsworld.co.uk/famous.htm#bush)
Gerard de Nerval (http://www.alchemylab.com/cannabis_stone1.htm) French writer
Graham Greene, (http://www.lca-uk.org/displayitem.php?articleid=136) Author.
Grateful Dead (http://www.norml.org/facts/famous_arrests.shtml) musicians.
Harrison Ford, Actor. This is a claim made by Bill Maher that has not been denied. (http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13059)
Hasan I-Sabah (Hasan-bin-Sabah) (http://www.sci.fi/%7Ephinnweb/neuro/assassins.html) Leader of the Assassins.
Heinrich Khunrath, (http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/SpecialCollections/khunrath/bio.html) Medieval Alchemist. (http://www.alchemylab.com/cannabis_stone4.htm) and Philosopher.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. (http://www.bloomington.in.us/%7Elgthscac/theosophy.htm) Russian Theosophist.
Henri Michaux (http://www.littlebluelight.com/michauxmain.html) poet and painter
Howard Marks. (http://www.mrnice.co.uk/party.htm) Ex-smuggler and Raconteur.
H R H Prince Harry, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1757000/1757448.stm) Third in line to the British throne.
H R H Princess Margaret, sister to Her Majesty the Queen. Her son disputes the claim. (http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/03/03/nlinl03.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/03/03/ixnewstop.html)
Howard Stern, (http://www.hempfiles.com/quotes/stern.shtml) admitted it on the radio.
Hua T'o (http://www.siu.edu/%7Eebl/leaflets/hemp.htm) Medical use as anaesthetic .
Hunter S. Thompson, (http://www.hempfiles.com/quotes/thompson.shtml) Author
Isabel Allende, Chilean author. Mentioned in her book "Paula".
Jack Kerouac, (http://www.hempfiles.com/quotes/kerouac.shtml) Author
Jack Nicholson, (http://www.etonline.com/celebrity/a7427.htm) actor.
Jackie Gleason, actor. Another whom the DEA kept on their pot files. (http://www.plasticbabylon.com/HistoryofHemp.htm)
James Brown, (http://www.re-lab.lv/rezone/arhivs/msg00017.html) musician
Janis Joplin, musician. Tried it but "... she didn't like marijuana, it gave her the jitters." (http://revistatrip.zip.net/81/janis/english2.htm)
Jane Fonda, (http://smokingsides.com/asfs/F/Fonda.html) Actress.
Jennifer Aniston, actress. "I enjoy smoking cannabis and see no harm in it", Daily Mail, 11/9/01.
Jennifer Capriati, (http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/jennifercapriati/) Tennis champ.
Jesse Ventura, (http://www.jesseventura.com/) Governor of Minnesota.
Jesus Christ. 'healed using cannabis'. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,869273,00.html)
Jim Morrison, (http://www.smh.com.au/news/0107/05/entertainment/entertain1.html) musician.
Jimmy Dorsey, Jazz musician, He was on an DEA file of marijuana users. (http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/48/anslinger.html)
Jimmy Hendrix, (http://www.rocknworld.com/legends/jimi/index.shtml) musician
Joan of Arc, (http://users.lycaeum.org/%7Esky/data/aint/303b.htm) was accused of using witch herbs (another name cannabis).
John Belushi, (http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/body/drugs/users/) actor. Perhaps not a particularly good role model!
John Denver, musician. He recorded a song about it. (http://www.420station.com/artists.htm)
John F Kennedy. (http://www.netasia.net/users/truehealth/Marijuana.htm) Politician.
John Kerry . (http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showtopic=24403) Politician. US Senator and Presidential candidate. Also see (http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5900)
John Lennon. (http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column2.html) musician.
John Le Mesurier. Actor. Tried it but said it's not for him.
John Wayne, Actor, "I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me." (http://users.lycaeum.org/%7Esky/data/aint/303b.htm)
Jonathan Miller, (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1812/a03.html) Theatre Director.
Johnny Cash, musician. Sang songs for NORML album. (http://www.norml.org/news/hemp2.shtml)
Jon Snow, (http://www.itn.co.uk/specials/June2001/0615cannabis.shtml) Channel 4 News presenter. (UK)
Julia Roberts, (http://www.etonline.com/celebrity/a7456.htm) Actress, "I smoked dope twice," ..." It made me too sleepy..."
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, (http://www.apbonline.com/media/celebnews/2000/07/19/jabbar0719_01.html) legendary Los Angeles Lakers Basketball star
Kary Mullis, (http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy/dancing_naked.html) Nobel Laurate, Biology. (http://almaz.com/nobel/chemistry/1993a.html) Is on NORML Board of directors. (http://www.norml.org/about/bio_karymullis.shtml)
Ken Kesey, (http://www.hempfiles.com/quotes/kesey.shtml) Author of "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" (1975)
Kenneth Tynan, (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1812/a03.html) Playwright.
Kurt Cobain, (http://www.astraeasweb.net/politics/bobkurt.html) musician.
Larry Hagman, (http://www.etonline.com/celebrity/a7427.htm) actor, of "JR" fame.
Led Zeppelin, (http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/73/number.html) musicians.
Lenny Bruce, (http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/61/lenny.html) Comedian.
Lewis Carroll, (http://www.fvacc.org/wwwboard/messages/101.html) Author
Lewis Wolpert, (http://www.itn.co.uk/specials/June2001/0615cannabis.shtml) biologist.
Little Richard, (http://www.rockabillyhall.com/LittleRichard.html) musician.
Louis Armstrong, (http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column11.htm) Jazz musician. The 'bust' in his own words. (http://www.shellac.org/wams/wgage.html)
Luke Perry, (http://www.cinema.com/search/person_news.phtml?ID=3185) actor.
Louis Hebert, (http://www.hemphasis.com/canhist.htm) French Botanist
Macaulay Culkin. (http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14974,00.html) Actor, Home Alone.
Mark Stepnoski. (http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2002-10-31/news.html/1/index.htmla) two-time Super Bowl champ, Dallas Cowboy.
Mick Jagger, (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n1170/a07.html) musician
Mike Bloomberg. (http://www.mapinc.org/norml/v02/n692/a09.htm?134) New York City Mayor.
Mike Tyson, (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/sports/DailyNews/tyson_marijuana_010118.html) Boxer.
Miles Davis, Jazz musician.
Milton Berle, Actor another one on the DEA list of smokers (http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/13/ECH13_07.HTM)
Mo Mowlam, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_605000/605565.stm) Minister recently in charge of UK drug policy.
Modigliani. (http://www.mystudios.com/gallery/modigliani/bio.html) Sculptor.
Montel Williams (http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18288.shtml) Chat show host.
Montgomery Clift, (http://www.servtech.com/%7Ewhitfitz/placesun.htm) actor, mentioned in his biography.
Neil Diamond, (http://www.broadwaytovegas.com/July20,1998.html) musician.
Neil Young, (http://www.media68.com/eng/crono/mar/mar3.htm) Musician.
Newt Gingrich (http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eynot/DrugsCl.html) Speaker of the US Senate.
Norman Mailer, (http://www.beatrice.com/interviews/dearborn/) Author.
Oasis, Noel Gallagher "smoking cannabis is as normal as having a cup of tea"
Ocean Colour Scene, "the hardest smoking band in music" Q Magazine. 02/02.
Oliver Stone, (http://www.caderbooks.com/exmugs.html) Film Director.
Oscar Wilde, (http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/botany3100/Drugs1.htm) Author. "Bosie and I have taken to hashish," (http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/article.cgi?num=1943)
Pablo Picasso, (http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/tour/t06.html) Artist.
Pancho Villa, Revolutionary Leader.
Peregrine Worthstone, (http://www.itn.co.uk/specials/June2001/0615cannabis.shtml) former editor of the Sunday Telegraph.
Peter Fonda, actor. "I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale."
Peter Sellers, (http://www.altx.com/interviews/terry.southern.html) actor.
Peter Tosh, Poet.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau, (http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/cc09/smokesignals/potpolitics/) Former Prime Minister of Canada.
Pink. Musician. Mentioned in Playboy interview (11/02).
Pink Floyd, (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/4152/numb.html) Musicians.
P. J. O'Rouke. (http://www.cascade.u-net.com/history_of_drugs.htm) Author.
Pythagoras, (http://users.lycaeum.org/%7Esputnik/Ludlow/THE/Introduction/) Mathematician.
Queen Victoria. (http://www.tlmp.org/history_of_marijuana.html)
Ram Dass, Philosopher.
Ray Charles, (http://afgen.com/ray_charles2.html) musician.
Richard Feynman, (http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-120201feynman) Nobel Prize Laureate physicist.
Richard Pryor, (http://www.joemills.com/pryor/1963/196301.html) actor.
Robert Anton Wilson. (http://dangermedia.org/innerview/raw2.html) Philosopher .
Robert Mitchum, (http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9707/01/mitchum.obit/) Actor, was jailed in the 40s for possession of marijuana.
Rolling Stones, (http://www.the-rolling-stones.com/disco/1967.html) musicians.
Rosie Boycott, (http://www.ccguide.org.uk/sundep28.html) former Editor of the Daily Express and The Independent.
Ross Rebagliati, (http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/sports/snowboarding/history.html) first ever snowboarding Gold Medallist, 1998 Winter Olympics. (http://www.time.com/time/reports/olympics/snowboarding2.html)
Rudolf Nureyev, (http://www.lanset.com/bookfolk/july-2.htm) Ballet dancer. Also see entry for Margot Fonteyn. (http://www.slatts.fsworld.co.uk/famous.htm#Fonteyn)
Rudyard Kipling (http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,727088,00.html) . Author.
Ryan Farrell, (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n659/a12.html?397) Australian Sprint Car champion.
Salvador Dali, (http://www.greatdreams.com/drugs.htm) Artist.
Samuel Beckett, Author.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Author.
Sidi-Hidi. (http://digilander.iol.it/paccyweb/cannabis/nomi_s.htm) Sacred religious figure of Morocco, believed to have brought cannabis to the Atlas.
Sinead O'Connor, (http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2000/02/1503.cfm) musician.
Sir Paul McCartney, (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n061.a10.html) Musician.
Sir Mick Jagger, (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v98.n061.a10.html) Musician. Of whom it was written; "Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel". (http://www.ukcia.org/potculture/67/1967.html)
Snoop Dogg, (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1793/a02.html?397) musician.
Steve Martin , (http://www.hempfiles.com/quotes/martin.shtml) Actor.
Stephen King. (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/q130779.html) Author, "Tommy Knockers".
Steve Jobs, (http://www.rushkoff.com/acidtest.htm) co-creator of the Apple computer.
Steven Soderbergh, (http://movies.go.com/news/Todays_Stories/208/soderberghberlin020801.html) Film director.
Stephen Sondheim. (http://www.2think.org/carlsagan.shtml) Broadway composer and lyricist.
Sting / Gordon Sumners, (http://www.mtvasia.com/News/International/Items/0004/0004081.html) musician.
Ted Turner, of CNN fame. This is a claim made by Bill Maher that has not been denied (http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13059)
Terence McKenna. (http://www.drugtext.org/press/webster/apr00/%5B%5D%20New%20York%20Times%20%20Terence%20McKenna .htm)
Terry Pratchett. (http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,590273,00.html) Author of the "Diskworld" books. A bit of a cheeky claim perhaps, in that he did not object to being given a "cake".
The Who, (http://www.thewho.net/articles/townshen/friedlan.htm) musicians.
Thelonious Monk, (http://home.achilles.net/%7Ehowardm/time7.shtml) Jazz musician.
Timothy Leary (http://zippy.cso.uiuc.edu:8080/%7Eroma/quotes/quotes.html)
Tomas Enge, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/2256469.stm) Formula 3000 World Champion.
Tommy Chong. (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n066/a06.html?397) Actor with Cheech Marin in "Up in Smoke " (http://www.goldmine.simplenet.com/cheech/) - "Cheech & Chong".
Tommy Lee, Musician.
Tony Booth, (http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/1738/sw173846.htm) the father-in-law of Britain's Prime Minister. Smoked it in No 10. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4148207,00.html)
UB40, (http://wap.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_334610/0/) Band.
Victor Hugo. (http://www.fvacc.org/wwwboard/messages/101.html) Author 'Les Misérables'
Walter 'Stumpy' Brennan (http://members.austarmetro.com.au/%7Exander/dream/artists/wbrennan.html) actor.
Walter Benjamin, (http://www.wbenjamin.org/walterbenjamin.html) Philosopher.
Wesley Snipes, actor. Has been seen in Cannabis Cafes. (http://www.crrh.org/hempnews/hn_19.html#wesley%20snipes)
Whitney Houston, (http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/05/03/houston/) musician.
William Butler Yeats. (http://www.alchemylab.com/cannabis_stone5.htm) Famous Irish Poet and Occultist. (http://www.fvacc.org/wwwboard/messages/101.html)
William S. Burroughs, Author.
William Shakespeare. (http://europe.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/UK/03/01/shakespeare.cannabis/) Dramatist. More here. (http://www.sfbg.com/reality/29.html)
Willie Nelson, (http://www.norml.org/about/nelson.shtml) musician.
Woody Harrelson, (http://www.grassthemovie.com/) Actor and reformer.
Zoroaster, (http://www.thc.nl/NEWS/HistoryOfCannabis.htm) Persian prophet.
Eight UK Conservative Shadow Cabinet Ministers as well as some Liberal and Labour MPs. (http://www.paston.co.uk/users/webbooks/mpsmoker.html)
Most popular Musicians since the turn of the 20th century. Even the boys from S Club 7! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1232000/1232884.stm)
You will find it's use mentioned in the Bible. (http://www.slatts.fsworld.co.uk/famous/famous-notes.htm#bible)
And now we are told even Stone age man may have used it. (http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v99/n513/a06.html?1449)
There are several other sites that have similar lists you may like to look at :

Two pages of Celebrity stoners from Cannabis Culture Magazine No 1 (http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2404.html) and No 2 (http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2496.html).
Very Important Pot Heads (http://www.veryimportantpotheads.com/) has a game for you to play.
Repeal Net has (http://www.repeal.net/Notable.htm) listed some notable anti-prohibitionist.

[father_pyramid]

the only difference between insanity and genius is success

[eternal_spirit]

the only difference between insanity and genius is success

................

Some geniuses have lived a life of poverty and been unrecognized in their lifetime. Maybe Beethoven, Tesla most certainly.

[father_pyramid]

................

Some geniuses have lived a life of poverty and been unrecognized in their lifetime. Maybe Beethoven, Tesla most certainly.

Don't worry, I don't measure success by $.

[adimon]

the only difference between insanity and genius is success

Yeah, and...you know, having a coherent point. ;)

[megafish33]

I've smoked, or may have smoked, various herbal products before(though not cigarettes with nicotine and tar, although I hear they're great for losing weigh). While it didn't do much harm, I don't really see how it did me any good. I don't get it...

Oxygen is the best high, ever. This will sound cheesy to you druggies, but really, after a good workout or run, I can't help but feel on top of the world. When you start to change your metabolism and it starts to burn fat day and night you'll have shitloads of energy!

Although I admit, sometimes I get a little too relaxed before nighttime on occasion lol Two grams or so of Valerian root extract supplements(same plant they use to synthesize Valium [diazepam, I think]), some Valerian root tea, brewed real strong, and a gram of acetaminophen and 50mg diphenhydramine. Herbs before pharma stuff, I leave a hour gap to let the Valerian mellow me out first. I sleep like a baby. :) I don't always do this though, just when I really need to catch some z's... And before you guys call me a druggie, well, I have some kinks in my CNS and it can be too sympathetic at times, as opposed to parasympathetic. This protocol was prescribed for me, even though there aren't any prescription medicines involved.

[father_pyramid]

Yeah, and...you know, having a coherent point. ;)

Are you trying to say that point that I made is not not a coherent? I thought it has to do with the subject of mental illness - insanity. No?

Or are you just simply saying that as in, people who type write crazily can either be genius or make no sense.

[adimon]

Oxygen is the best high, ever. This will sound cheesy to you druggies, but really, after a good workout or run, I can't help but feel on top of the world. When you start to change your metabolism and it starts to burn fat day and night you'll have shitloads of energy!

I totally agree. I run marathons and feel amazing before, during, and especially after. (After I've woken up the next day!)

Are you trying to say that point that I made is not not a coherent? I thought it has to do with the subject of mental illness - insanity. No?

Or are you just simply saying that as in, people who type write crazily can either be genius or make no sense.

I wasn't passing judgement on your post. I merely meant that insane people are largely too incoherent for us to determine if they are geniuses or not.

[father_pyramid]

I wasn't passing judgement on your post. I merely meant that insane people are largely too incoherent for us to determine if they are geniuses or not.

Ah ok, then yes, I agree. Sometime anyways lol, but sometimes it's only incoherent to those who aren't genius(or those who aren't able to see things from a different perspective) lol ;) . But usually it is fairly easy to tell when someone is actually nutso(not that there's anything wrong with that :P - remember -insanity is perfectly sane reaction to insane society ) lol.

[quelyn]

it's not the drug but the mind set using them

tiswas you have an intrest in drugs .. everychance you get you bring them up..I read you had depression ( not drug induced i take it) whats your blocked goals and attacking this subject matter does it allow you to run away from these goals....

or are you trying to find out who uses drugs so that the police can kick down there doors......what the agenda here..seems dangerous:mad:
What is up with this???????
Every time I am reading along for INFO and someone "jumps" tiswas. I understand the posts made by tiswas and would appreciate NOT having to jump over all the attacks.
Some of you need a life or higher purpose or maybe permanent space in the rant room.

Out of here.............................................. ..

[kasalt]

http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/4705/dejensucomentario1kike0.gif

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-259262713655286519

[oceanwave]

I read this in the best newspaper of UK, The Daily Mail, and it is all true.
HA HA schrooms and cannabis today, tommorrow the local asylum.

so...

...you believe what the papers say?...




EDIT: apologies kewli, as you'd already asked this question http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showpost.php?p=167963&postcount=20 earlier

[Mo0n5tar]

Here is one of the millions of published articles promoting investigation and analysis of the effects of cannabis, there are many more out there ranging from spiritual benefits of the herb to scientific reports on marijuana contributing to brain cell regeneration, the info is getting out there and the more one learns the more one sees the hipocritical and bias laws prohibiting use of the erb.

Source: Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Date: November 6 2007
Author: Legalise Cannabis Alliance

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Cannabis mixed with tobacco linked to increased psychosocial problems

Teens who smoke both cannabis and tobacco seem to have more psychosocial problems, than those who smoke cannabis only.

A study in Switzerland published in the November issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has found teens who smoked marijuana (aka: cannabis /weed/pot) do as well or better in some areas as those who don't. But the same was not true for those who used both tobacco mixed with the herb.

We hope you consider it of sufficient import to draw this to the attention your readers/audience for information/discussion.

Editors notes:

The study published in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics &
Adolescent Medicine found that teens who smoke cannabis were more likely to have a good relationship with their friends than teens who did not smoked tobacco or pot.

Dr. J. C. Suris and colleagues at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, analysed data from a 2002 national survey of almost 5,300 Swiss students aged 16 to 20 years. Of the group, 455 smoked cannabis exclusively, 1,703 smoked marijuana and tobacco, and 3,105 abstained from both substances.

The survey found that, compared with students who used both substances,
students who smoked cannabis only were more likely:

* to be male (71.6 per cent vs. 59.7 per cent),
* to play sports (85.5 per cent vs. 66.7 per cent)
* to live with both parents (78.2 vs. 68.3)
* to have good grades (77.5 vs. 66.6).

As well, the researchers noted that students who smoked marijuana only were less likely:

* to have been drunk in the past 30 days (40.5 per cent vs. 55 per cent)
* to have started using cannabis before the age of 15 years (25.9 per cent vs. 37.5 per cent)
* to have smoked cannabis more than once or twice during the previous 30 days (44 per cent vs. 66 per cent)
* to use other illegal drugs (8.4 per cent vs. 17.9 per cent).

Those who smoked cannabis only used it less often than those who smoked both cigarettes and cannabis. About half of the tobacco-and-cannabis group had used it 10 times or more in the previous month, compared to about half in the cannabis - only group who had used the cannabis only once or twice in the same time period.

Compared to teens who abstain from smoking cannabis or cigarettes,
cannabis-only smokers were more likely to skip class, but still have the
same level of good grades. And although they were more likely to report
having a relationship with their parents, they are not more likely to be
depressed than abstainers.

The study did not explain the reasons behind any of its findings.


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The Legalise Cannabis Alliance http://www.lca-uk.org is a UK-based
organisation for the legalisation of cannabis affiliated to the European Coalition For Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD) a Euro region network of 140 NGO?s, individual experts and procured citizens involved in the drug issue.

ENCOD is also the European section of an International Coalition, which
consists of more than 200 NGOs from around the world that have adhered to a Manifesto for Just and Effective Drug Policy (established in 1998).

Legalise Cannabis Alliance
PO BOX 2883
STOKE ON TRENT
S74 9EE
http://clear-uk.org
https://www.facebook.com/ClearUK
07984 255015

[adzboarder]

Teens who smoke both cannabis and tobacco seem to have more psychosocial problems, than those who smoke cannabis only.


There we go then. Tobacco is more harmful than ganja. Case closed, reclassify ganja and make it available in Boots. Thanks.

[Mo0n5tar]

That kind of simplicity does no one any good.

It raises some good points and once again we see the differences between the bias of the establishment articles on marijuana and open minded research.

http://www.cannabis.net/neogenesis/index.html
Marijuana may spur new brain cells
By STEVE MITCHELL

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Scientists said Thursday that marijuana appears to promote the development of new brain cells in rats and have anti-anxiety and anti-depressant effects, a finding that could have an impact on the national debate over medical uses of the drug.

Other illegal and legal drugs, including opiates, alcohol, nicotine and cocaine, have been shown to suppress the formation of new brain cells when used chronically, but marijuana's effect on that process was uncertain.

Now, a team led by Xia Zhang of the department of psychiatry at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon may have found evidence the drug spurs new brain cells to form in a region of the brain called the hippocampus, and this in turn reduces anxiety and depression.

Marijuana appears "to be the only illicit drug whose capacity to produce increased ... neurons is positively correlated with its (anti-anxiety) and anti-depressant-like effects," Zhang and colleagues wrote in the November issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The paper was posted online Thursday.

In the study, rats were given injections of HU210 -- a synthesized version of a cannabinoid chemical found in marijuana -- twice per day for 10 days.

Zhang told United Press International this would be "a high dose" of smoked marijuana, but he added he is not certain how many equivalent joints it would take or whether patients now using the drug typically would be getting this much HU210.

Although HU210 was injected, Zhang said there would be no difference if it was obtained by smoking marijuana.

The rats showed evidence of new neurons in the hippocampus dentate gyrus, a region of the brain that plays a role in developing memories.

Zhang's team suspected the new brain cells also might be associated with a reduction in anxiety and depression, because previous studies had indicated medications used to treat anxiety and depression achieve their effect this way.

To find out, they treated rats with HU210 for 10 days and then tested them one month later. When placed in a new environment, the rats were quicker to eat their food than rats that did not receive the compound, which suggested there was a reduction in anxiety behaviors.

Another group of rats treated with HU210 showed a reduction in the duration of immobility in a forced swimming test, which is an indication the compound had an anti-depressant effect.

Asked how he thought the findings might impact the debate over using marijuana to treat medical conditions, Zhang said, "Our results indicate cannabinoids could be used for the treatment of anxiety and depression."

He added that his view is "marijuana should be used as alcohol or nicotine," noting "it has been used for treating various diseases for years in other countries."

Last June the U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 that the federal ban on marijuana supersedes the laws of certain states that allow the substance to be used for medicinal purposes, such as the treatment of pain, nausea in cancer patients and glaucoma. Eleven states have passed laws legalizing marijuana use by patients with a doctor's approval, including California, Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont and Washington.

The Bush administration, through the Department of Justice's Drug Enforcement Agency, began conducting raids in California in 2001 on patients using marijuana. Two of those arrested by the DEA -- Angel Raich, who suffers from brain cancer, and Diane Monson, who used the drug to help alleviate chronic back pain -- sued Attorney General John Ashcroft, requesting a court order to be allowed to grow and smoke marijuana, which led to the Supreme Court decision.

Paul Armentano, senior policy analyst with the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, told UPI he thought the findings "would have a positive impact on moving forward this debate, because it is giving ... a scientific explanation that further supports long-observed anecdotal evidence, and further lends itself to the notion that marijuana, unlike so many other prescription drugs and controlled substances, appears to have incredibly low toxicity and as a result lacks potential harm to the brain that many of these drugs have."

The DEA Web site, however, contends that "marijuana is a dangerous, addictive drug that poses significant health threats to users," including cancer and impaired mental functioning.

Armentano said this is a distortion of what scientific studies actually show. Studies in animals indicate marijuana actually may protect against many forms of cancer, rather than cause the disease, he said. In addition, studies in marijuana smokers have found little evidence of cognitive deficits, and even when they do, the defects disappear if the person stops smoking for 30 days.




Ya get me, the DEA, Schools, MI5, the police, government, they will all tell you the same thing!

And guess what, it ain't true#!

[Mo0n5tar]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/armentano-p/armentano-p10.htm

Cannabis and the Brain: A User's Guide

by Paul Armentano


Preclinical data recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation demonstrating that cannabinoids may spur brain cell growth has reignited the international debate regarding the impact of marijuana on the brain. However, unlike previous pseudo-scientific campaigns that attempted to link pot smoking with a litany of cognitive abnormalities, modern research suggests what many cannabis enthusiasts have speculated all along: ganja may be good for you.

Cannabinoids & Neurogenesis

"Study turns pot wisdom on its head," pronounced the Globe and Mail in October. News wires throughout North America and the world touted similar headlines – all of which were met with a monumental silence from federal officials and law enforcement. Why all the fuss? Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon found that the administration of synthetic cannabinoids in rats stimulated the proliferation of newborn neurons (nerve cells) in the hippocampus region of the brain and significantly reduced measures of anxiety and depression-like behavior. The results shocked researchers – who noted that almost all other so-called "drugs of abuse," including alcohol and tobacco, decrease neurogenesis in adults – and left the "pot kills brain cells" crowd with a platter of long-overdue egg on their faces.

While it would be premature to extrapolate the study's findings to humans, at a minimum, the data reinforce the notion that cannabinoids are unusually non-toxic to the brain and that even long-term use of marijuana likely represents little risk to brain function. The findings also offer further evidence that cannabinoids can play a role in the alleviation of depression and anxiety, and that cannabis-based medicines may one day offer a safer alternative to conventional anti-depressant pharmaceuticals such as Paxil and Prozac.

(Reference: Cannabinoids promote embryonic and adult hippocampus neurogenesis and produce anxiolytic and depressant-like effects. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2005)

Cannabis & Neuroprotection

Not only has modern science refuted the notion that marijuana is neurotoxic, recent scientific discoveries have indicated that cannabinoids are, in fact, neuroprotective, particularly against alcohol-induced brain damage. In a recent preclinical study – the irony of which is obvious to anyone who reads it – researchers at the US National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) reported that the administration of the non-psychoactive cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) reduced ethanol-induced cell death in the brain by up to 60 percent. "This study provides the first demonstration of CBD as an in vivo neuroprotectant ... in preventing binge ethanol-induced brain injury," the study's authors wrote in the May 2005 issue of the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. Alcohol poisoning is linked to hundreds of preventable deaths each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control, while cannabis cannot cause death by overdose.

Of course, many US neurologists have known about cannabis' neuroprotective prowess for years. NIMH scientists in 1998 first touted the ability of natural cannabinoids to stave off the brain-damaging effects of stroke and acute head trauma. Similar findings were then replicated by investigators in the Netherlands and Italy and, most recently, by a Japanese research in 2005. However, attempts to measure the potential neuroprotective effects of synthetic cannabinoid-derived medications in humans have so far been inconclusive.

(References: Comparison of cannabidiol, antioxidants and diuretics in reversing binge ethanol-induced neurotoxicity. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 2005 | Cannabidiol prevents cerebral infarction. Stroke. 2005 | Post-ischemic treatment with cannabidiol prevents electroencephalographic flattening, hyperlocomotion and neuronal injury in gerbils. Neuroscience Letters. 2003 | Neuroprotection by Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the main active compound in marijuana, against ouabain-induced in vivo excitotoxicity. Journal of Neuroscience. 2001 | Cannabidiol and Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol are neuroprotective antioxidants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 1998)

Cannabinoids and Glioma

Of all cancers, few are as aggressive and deadly as glioma. Glioma tumors quickly invade healthy brain tissue and are typically unresponsive to surgery and standard medical treatments. One agent they do respond to is cannabis.

Writing in the August 2005 issue of the Journal of Neurooncology, investigators at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute reported that the administration of THC on human glioblastoma multiforme cell lines decreased the proliferation of malignant cells and induced apoptosis (programmed cell death) more rapidly than did the administration of the synthetic cannabis receptor agonist, WIN-55,212-2. Researchers also noted that THC selectively targeted malignant cells while ignoring healthy ones in a more profound manner than the synthetic alternative. Patients diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme typically die within three months without therapy.

Previous research conducted in Italy has also demonstrated the capacity of CBD to inhibit the growth of glioma cells both in vitro (e.g., a petri dish) and in animals in a dose dependent manner. As a result, a Spanish research team is currently investigating whether the intracranial administration of cannabinoids can prolong the lives of patients diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.

Most recently, a scientific analysis in the October issue of the journal Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry noted that, in addition to THC and CBD's brain cancer-fighting ability, studies have also shown cannabinoids to halt the progression of lung carcinoma, leukemia, skin carcinoma, colectoral cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer.

(References: Cannabinoids selectively inhibit proliferation and induce cell death of cultured human glioblastoma multiforme cells. Journal of Neurooncology. 2005 | Cannabinoids and cancer. Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry. 2005 | Anti-tumor effects of cannabidiol, a non-psychotropic cannabinoid, on human glioma cell lines. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 2003)

Cannabinoids & Neurodegeneration

Emerging evidence also indicates that cannabinoids may play a role in slowing the progression of certain neurodegenerative diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's Disease). Recent animal studies have shown cannabinoids to delay disease progression and inhibit neurodegeneration in mouse models of ALS, Parkinson's, and MS. As a result, the Journal of Neurological Sciences recently pronounced, "There is accumulating evidence ... to support the hypothesis that the cannabinoid system can limit the neurodegenerative processes that drive progressive disease," and patient trials investigating whether the use of oral THC and cannabis extracts may slow the progression of MS are now underway in the United Kingdom.

(References: Cannabinoids and neuroprotection in CNS inflammatory disease. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 2005. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: delayed disease progression in mice by treatment with a cannabinoid. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Other Motor Neuron Disorders. 2004 |Cannabinoids inhibit neurodegeneration in models of multiple sclerosis. Brain. 2003)

Cannabis & Cognition

But what about claims of cannabis' damaging effect of cognition? A review of the scientific literature indicates that rumors regarding the "stoner stupid" stereotype are unfounded. According to clinical trial data published this past spring in the American Journal of Addictions, cannabis use – including heavy, long-term use of the drug – has, at most, only a negligible impact on cognition and memory. Researchers at Harvard Medical School performed magnetic resonance imaging on the brains of 22 long-term cannabis users (reporting a mean of 20,100 lifetime episodes of smoking) and 26 controls (subjects with no history of cannabis use). Imaging displayed "no significant differences" between heavy cannabis smokers compared to controls, the study found.

Previous trials tell a similar tale. An October 2004 study published in the journal Psychological Medicine examining the potential long-term residual effects of cannabis on cognition in monozygotic male twins reported "an absence of marked long-term residual effects of marijuana use on cognitive abilities." A 2003 meta-analysis published in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society also "failed to reveal a substantial, systematic effect of long-term, regular cannabis consumption on the neurocognitive functioning of users who were not acutely intoxicated," and a 2002 clinical trial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal determined, "Marijuana does not have a long-term negative impact on global intelligence."

Finally, a 2001 study published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry found that long-term cannabis smokers who abstained from the drug for one week "showed virtually no significant differences from control subjects (those who had smoked marijuana less than 50 times in their lives) on a battery of 10 neuropsychological tests." Investigators further added, "Former heavy users, who had consumed little or no cannabis in the three months before testing, [also] showed no significant differences from control subjects on any of these tests on any of the testing days."

(References: Lack of hippocampal volume change in long-term heavy cannabis users. American Journal of Addictions. 2005 | Neuropsychological consequences of regular marijuana use: a twin study. Psychological Medicine. 2004 | Non-acute (residual) neurocognitive effects of cannabis use: A meta-analytic study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 2003 | Current and former marijuana use: preliminary findings of a longitudinal study of effects on IQ in young adults. Canadian Medical Association Journal. 2002 | Neuropsychological Performance in Long-term Cannabis Users. Archives of General Psychiatry. 2001)