Marijuana may affect the brain....

[Rubia Warren]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6929006/

They found that blood flow improved in people who smoked up to 70 marijuana cigarettes a week -- people they defined as moderate users -- after a month of avoiding cannabis.

Heavy users, who smoked up to 350 joints a week, saw no change in blood flow even after a month, the researchers said.

:huh: Where the heck did they come up with the guidelines on moderate and heavy marijuana users? They consider 70 joints a week to be moderate? And it takes a whopping 350 a week to be considered a heavy smoker? I got news for you all: 350 doobies a week is not heavy usage...... can you say iron lung?!
SHEESH!

[luv1another]

I am with roobz man if they are smoking 350 joints a week they are in dire straits ... man someone that smokes that many normal cigs a week could be called heavy.
but if they were up to 350 they would want a really good job to be paying for it all or growing a whole lot of it themselves someplace :doh:

[Em7add11]

When the government has an agenda, watch out.

350 ciggs a week averages out to 50 a day.

Supposing you sleep 8 hours a day, that leaves 16 hours to smoke 50 ciggs each day. So just over 3 per hour. A fattie every 20 minutes is a ridiculous habit. I don't even know regular smokers that smoke that much. If the smoker in question curbs his habit long enough to pull an 8-hour work day, then we're down to one cig every 10 minutes.

Any guesses into how much a habit like that would cost?

[Rubia Warren]

Even if those joints were rolled so small as to be the smallest pinner-sized joints possible, a person would literally have to chain smoke them like cigarettes until he passes out at about 3 or 4 in the afternoon.
I am not very good at estimating pot prices cuz I am not what I would consider a pot user (stop snickering- I really am not), and correct me if I am wrong, but I think you can get like 2 good sized joints out of an eighth of weed. If you break those 2 in half to pinner-sized (just for the sake of this thread), that is 4. If I am wrong, then it is 4 joints you can get out of an eighth, which would be 8 skinny joints. An eighth in my area is like 20 bucks, unless you are purchasing some really high quality stuff. In order to get up to, let's say 320 a day, you'd have to be buying either 80 eighth bags (or 40, depending on how many joints you can get out of a bag), which would be a whopping 1600 dollar a day (or 800) pot habit. :lol: I seriously doubt that is physically possible. And then again, if one is smoking that much pot a day, I assume they'd be buying in bulk.... and I am not sure about how much anything above an ounce costs, so an ounce in my area is prolly about 120-150 bucks. You'd need about 10 of those, so that is still about 1200 bucks a day. Even 5 of those is still 600 a day. That is just absolutely crazy, and in all of my years, I've never seen nor heard of that kind of a habit. Even if you are smoking pinner sized joints, and it is the cheapest, crappiest, homegrown ditchweed, you still are more likely to get a severe headache or nausea soon after 7 to 10 joints in a day of that (cuz it IS ditchweed, after all!), and either suffer in discomfort or pass out, I would think anyway.
Now as for what they consider moderate usage of marijuana, I actually think that is heavy usage. Most people I've ever known that were serious pot smokers smoked about 7-10 joints a day, which is what? About a quarter ounce daily? And usually they aren't smoking the entire thing alone, but there are one or more other people throughout that day that they share with and vice versa. Moderate usage to me, would be a person who smokes a couple of times a week, not daily, or even a few times a month. I am still: :rofl: at this study.

[TuckEverlasting]

I love these lines from Fellowship of the Ring:

Saruman: So the Ring of Power has been found.

Gandalf: All these long years, it was in the Shire, under my very nose.

Saruman: And yet you did not have the wits to see it. Your love of the Halflings' leaf has clearly slowed your mind.

:lol:

[anthrogirl]

How big are these joints? 70 pinners/week is alot different than 70 Canterbury Carrots! I'd like to see their definition of "marijuana cigarettes". If the doobs are the same size as cigarettes, 70/wk would be roughly equal to 4 packs of smokes/wk (or 1/2 pack a day).

ag

[Pretty Pink VICTORY]

:lmbo:

I'm just amazed at y'all's "marajuana" knowledge! I'm starting to wonder about y'all!

:rofl:

[Rubia Warren]

How big are these joints? 70 pinners/week is alot different than 70 Canterbury Carrots! I'd like to see their definition of "marijuana cigarettes". If the doobs are the same size as cigarettes, 70/wk would be roughly equal to 4 packs of smokes/wk (or 1/2 pack a day).

ag
"Canturbury Carrots"? :huh: I've never heard that one before........ that is comedy. :lmbo:
I have no idea how they measured the joints. It seems like it'd all be pretty subjective anyways and certain facotrs could alter the study, wouldn't you think? Things such as, what kind of weed, how big the joints are, how many are smoked a day, how much each person has smoked in their lifetimes, etc.

[Rubia Warren]

:lmbo:

I'm just amazed at y'all's "marajuana" knowledge! I'm starting to wonder about y'all!

:rofl:
We read a lot. :innocent:

[anthrogirl]

"Canturbury Carrots"? :huh: I've never heard that one before........ that is comedy. :lmbo:
I have no idea how they measured the joints. It seems like it'd all be pretty subjective anyways and certain facotrs could alter the study, wouldn't you think? Things such as, what kind of weed, how big the joints are, how many are smoked a day, how much each person has smoked in their lifetimes, etc.
absolutely.

ag

[luv1another]

:lmbo:

I'm just amazed at y'all's "marajuana" knowledge! I'm starting to wonder about y'all!

:rofl:

:blush: hey I wasn't always a Christian :teeth:

[Pretty Pink VICTORY]

TMI! TMI!

lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalal (fingers in ears)



:wink:

:lol:

[A-Man]

(stop snickering- I really am not)

I can't help it!

:lmbo:

[LGM]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6929006/

:huh: Where the heck did they come up with the guidelines on moderate and heavy marijuana users? They consider 70 joints a week to be moderate?

I smoke about 70 joints a week...and coincidentally I also eat about 70 Snickers bars a week. I have sex about 70 times a week…but I also try to workout at least 70 times a week, and I never watch much more than 70 hours of TV in a week, and finally I am trying hard to cut back to about 70 Tweb posts a week…

LGM
…everything in moderation I say…

[Piebald]

350 doobies a week is not heavy usage...... can you say iron lung?!
SHEESH!

:lol: