Video appears showing brothers, ages 2 and 5, smoking pot
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^That's not a study and it doesn't say anything about damaging the brain permanently. Now check this out..
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2140
Marijuana does not dent IQ permanently:
Smoking marijuana does not have a long-term effect on intelligence, say researchers in Canada who have followed volunteers from before birth to early adulthood.
Heavy pot smokers did experience a dip in their intelligence quotient (IQ). But people who had once smoked heavily and then given up were right back up to normal, the study found. Light smokers appeared no different from non-smokers.
What the researchers do not know is if decades of pot-smoking could have a more lasting impact. Looking at long-term users in their 30s or 40s could show different results, admits Peter Fried, at Carleton University in Ottawa, who led the study. "Perhaps the nervous system isn't as flexible then," he says.
"You can't argue with what they're saying," says William Campbell, President of the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine. "It doesn't surprise me or disappoint me."
Urine test
Fried and his team followed 70 middle-class kids from the womb. IQ tests were taken at around age 10 and then again between 18 and 20. As adults, the participants were asked about a range of behaviours, including pot smoking. They also under went urine analysis to check their answers.
At the time of the second questionnaire, nine had been heavy users in the past but had not smoked for over three months. Fifteen were still smoking cannabis heavily - at least five joints a week and nine were current light users who smoked a few joints weekly. The rest of the volunteers had never been regular users, so had either never smoked marijuana or had done so less than once a week.
Only the heavy current users had experienced a decline in their IQ scores over the 10-year period - about four points. Light users, former users and abstainers all saw their IQ scores climb between two and six points.
Fried concedes that while IQ may be spared, memory and attention may be harder hit and is examining the effect now: "The most-often stated reason for quitting was they felt their short-term memory was affected."
Canadian Medical Association Journal (vol 166, p 887
Shut up harlot..
well thats not my argument....so i wont take that one..
but i WILL say anything burning thats bieng inhaled is a carcinogen, and its probably safe to say that those carcinogens are worse for 2-5 year olds, than adults
is smoking good for two yar olds or five year olds? no.
I dont quite know what THC does to children (probably adverse reaction) but its probably safe to say it interferes with a childs judgement, which might not be good when youre still at the learning stage..
thats just my guess though..
but i WILL say anything burning thats bieng inhaled is a carcinogen, and its probably safe to say that those carcinogens are worse for 2-5 year olds, than adults
is smoking good for two yar olds or five year olds? no.
I dont quite know what THC does to children (probably adverse reaction) but its probably safe to say it interferes with a childs judgement, which might not be good when youre still at the learning stage..
thats just my guess though..
That's a whole other argument that really has nothing to do with Marijuana then. If those kids were smoking cigarettes or lived in North Richmond it would have the same effect, lol.. Anything toxic is bad for kids, that goes with out saying. But would the media have reacted the same exact way if these kids were smoking cigarettes or breathing in semi-toxic gas fumes from some nearby refinery? Doubt it, it's all political as far as I can tell..
well no shit, the little kids have on football jerseys and skully caps and are smoking blunts.
what if they were white kids, had on iron maiden t shirts, long greasy hair and were smoking meth?
probably same thing would happen
parkboyz, isnt it saafe to say them smoking a joint might have been healthier?
giving a 2 year old a blunt = marijuana/tobacco
what if they were white kids, had on iron maiden t shirts, long greasy hair and were smoking meth?
probably same thing would happen
parkboyz, isnt it saafe to say them smoking a joint might have been healthier?
giving a 2 year old a blunt = marijuana/tobacco
if i was white, i could watch this and *think* i understand exactly why the black family structure is fucked up.
its really beyond the actual giving the children marijuana that offends me, its a few lesser noticed things....
A) the kid going to the corner and pulling his pants down, then halfway pulling them up, not sure if that was the right thing to do or not.
B) "you got the munchies now?"
C) you really passed a 730 day old seed a blunt.
its really beyond the actual giving the children marijuana that offends me, its a few lesser noticed things....
A) the kid going to the corner and pulling his pants down, then halfway pulling them up, not sure if that was the right thing to do or not.
B) "you got the munchies now?"
C) you really passed a 730 day old seed a blunt.
Yea, I mean, I wouldn't dream of giving a two year old anything to smoke. I wouldn't trick any one into taking something when they have no idea what it is. At 2, you're not even old enough to make choices. 5 either. Honestly I don't even smoke with my brother and he's 17. But as long as it doesn't affect his social life, I could care less how much weed he smokes.
And LMAO @ 650 Beezy calling weed a "drug".. Little kids take "drugs" all the time, you wanna put it like that.
And LMAO @ 650 Beezy calling weed a "drug".. Little kids take "drugs" all the time, you wanna put it like that.
Weed is not physically detrimental to your health as far as I know.
The real ill effects are mental- possibility of developing psychoses or triggering mental disorders, brain cell decline, amotivational syndrome, etc.
These are all magnified when your brain is still developing. (i.e. under about 18 or so, and much more so in the case of 2 and 5 year old children)
The real ill effects are mental- possibility of developing psychoses or triggering mental disorders, brain cell decline, amotivational syndrome, etc.
These are all magnified when your brain is still developing. (i.e. under about 18 or so, and much more so in the case of 2 and 5 year old children)
