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I believe there have been studies done on the detrimental effects of regular marijuana use on adolescents and resulting (permanently) impaired cognition. Havi

I believe there have been studies done on the detrimental effects of regular marijuana use on adolescents and resulting (permanently) impaired cognition. Having smoked way too much marijuana in my early life, it seems fairly obvious that regular drug use is potentially damaging to the developing brain (or any brain for that matter), independent of how interesting or intense the experiences while under the influence may be.

collyw 8y ago
Marijuana isn't generally considered a psychedelic.
- titzer 8y ago
  lmgtfy: http://psychedelics.com/thc/is-marijuana-a-psychedelic/ http://psychedelics.com/thc/is-marijuana-a-psychedelic/
  - no_identd 8y ago
    "Psychedelics are an informal class", oh please. All classical psychedelics act as agonists of heterodimeric 5-HT2A–mGlu2 receptors.
- bfuller 8y ago
  marijuana is definitely a psychedelic. eat a few grams of hash and tell me it's not.
  - collyw 8y ago
    It isn't listed here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug That's what I mean by its not generally considered a psychedelic. I am aware some people class it as one. Personally I have never experienced psychedelic effects from it.
    - bfuller 8y ago
      it is absolutely generally considered a psychedelic. like I said eat a few grams of hash and tell me it's not. it has been used that way in world religions for thousands of years.
      - yesenadam 8y ago
        But that's like saying "Alcohol is deadly. Drink 10 bottles of whisky and tell me it's not." It's a spurious argument, irrelevant. That's nothing like how the drug is used 99.9999% of the time. Sure, it can be psychedelic, apparently--though I never came across hash that was at all. I've read about people tripping on hash, but never even heard anyone talk about anyone they know having that experience. I guess you know this.
      - collyw 8y ago
        Post me some edibles over and 'll be happy to oblige. Never had that effect when I tried them before. Usually larger doses just made me giggly and put me to sleep.
  - GordonS 8y ago
    Not sure why you're getting downvoted - when eaten, THC is metabolised into 11-OH-THC, which is much more potent that THC. If you eat too much, cannabis has psychedelic effects that are not present when smoking/vaping, and some people compare the 'trippy' effects to those of LSD or mushrooms.
    - grawprog 8y ago
      I keep hearing this....I have yet to consume enough marijuana to have this happen...I've injested at least 2000mg of thc worth of candies made from shatter at once while smoking copious amounts of doobies and shatter no hallucinations....i've taken ten 100mg THC oil pills at once...zero hallucinations....smoked several grams of shatter in one sitting...nope....made a batch of cookies out of about 3 ounces of bud and a few grams of hash...ate most of the cookies in one sitting...again...no hallucinations...the only time i've ever even come close was the very first time...as I walked around whatever part of my body I couldn't see just didn't exist. Also...smoking weed or ingesting it is fairly incomparable to either LSD or mushrooms....like in the slightest...mushrooms will strip your brain away piece by piece and let you meet the mushroom people....and LSD is like going to a magical land of wonder....smoking weed does neither of these things...I really wish it did...i've tried really hard to get that to happen...
drbojingle 8y ago
I'd like to see this done with good lsd instead of marijuana.

collyw 8y ago

Marijuana isn't generally considered a psychedelic.

titzer 8y ago
lmgtfy: http://psychedelics.com/thc/is-marijuana-a-psychedelic/ http://psychedelics.com/thc/is-marijuana-a-psychedelic/
- no_identd 8y ago
  "Psychedelics are an informal class", oh please. All classical psychedelics act as agonists of heterodimeric 5-HT2A–mGlu2 receptors.
bfuller 8y ago
marijuana is definitely a psychedelic. eat a few grams of hash and tell me it's not.
- collyw 8y ago
  It isn't listed here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_drug That's what I mean by its not generally considered a psychedelic. I am aware some people class it as one. Personally I have never experienced psychedelic effects from it.
  - bfuller 8y ago
    it is absolutely generally considered a psychedelic. like I said eat a few grams of hash and tell me it's not. it has been used that way in world religions for thousands of years.
    - yesenadam 8y ago
      But that's like saying "Alcohol is deadly. Drink 10 bottles of whisky and tell me it's not." It's a spurious argument, irrelevant. That's nothing like how the drug is used 99.9999% of the time. Sure, it can be psychedelic, apparently--though I never came across hash that was at all. I've read about people tripping on hash, but never even heard anyone talk about anyone they know having that experience. I guess you know this.
    - collyw 8y ago
      Post me some edibles over and 'll be happy to oblige. Never had that effect when I tried them before. Usually larger doses just made me giggly and put me to sleep.
- GordonS 8y ago
  Not sure why you're getting downvoted - when eaten, THC is metabolised into 11-OH-THC, which is much more potent that THC. If you eat too much, cannabis has psychedelic effects that are not present when smoking/vaping, and some people compare the 'trippy' effects to those of LSD or mushrooms.
  - grawprog 8y ago
    I keep hearing this....I have yet to consume enough marijuana to have this happen...I've injested at least 2000mg of thc worth of candies made from shatter at once while smoking copious amounts of doobies and shatter no hallucinations....i've taken ten 100mg THC oil pills at once...zero hallucinations....smoked several grams of shatter in one sitting...nope....made a batch of cookies out of about 3 ounces of bud and a few grams of hash...ate most of the cookies in one sitting...again...no hallucinations...the only time i've ever even come close was the very first time...as I walked around whatever part of my body I couldn't see just didn't exist. Also...smoking weed or ingesting it is fairly incomparable to either LSD or mushrooms....like in the slightest...mushrooms will strip your brain away piece by piece and let you meet the mushroom people....and LSD is like going to a magical land of wonder....smoking weed does neither of these things...I really wish it did...i've tried really hard to get that to happen...

drbojingle 8y ago

I'd like to see this done with good lsd instead of marijuana.