Many drugs - heroin, cocaine, and the more common alcohol and nicotine inhibit the growth of these new cells. It was thought that marijuana did the same thing, but this new research suggests otherwise.
Neuropsychiatrist Xia Zhang and a team of researchers study how marijuana-like drugs known collectively as cannabinoids act on the brain.
The team tested the effects of HU-210, a potent synthetic cannabinoid similar to a group of compounds found in marijuana. The synthetic version is about 100 times as powerful as THC, the high-inducing compound loved by recreational users.
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Study Shows Marijuana Increases Brain Cell Growth
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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.
read Andrew Weil's 1972 book
ask song writers and Musicians
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch
enjoy
"'How come it's against the law if it's so all-fired good?' asked Harold.
"'Well, now, I use to study 'bout that myself,' said C.K., tightening the lid of the fruit-jar and giving it a pat. 'It ain't because it make young boys like you sick, I tell you that much!'
"C.K. put the fruit-jar beside the shell box, placing it neatly, carefully centering the two just in front of him, and seeming to consider the question while he was doing it.
"'I tell you what it is,' he said then, 'it's 'cause a man see too much when he git high, that's what. He see right through ever'thing . . . You understan' what I say?'
"'What the heck are you talking about, C.K.?'
"'Well, maybe you too young to know what I talkin' 'bout--but I tell you they's a lotta trickin' an' lyin' go on in the world . . . they's a lotta ole bull-crap go on in the world . . . Well, a man git high, he see right through all them tricks an' lies, an' all that ole bull-crap. He see right through there into the truth of it!'
"'Truth of what?'
"'Ever'thing.'
"'Dang, you sure talk crazy, C.K.'
"Sho', they got to have it against the law . . . Sho' you take a man high on good gage, he got no use for they ole bull-crap, 'cause he done see through there. Shoot, he lookin' right down into his ver' soul!'"
Seeing right through ever'thing is not officially encouraged. In fact, it's downright anti-American, esp at a time when a whole lotta trickin' an' lyin' is standard procedure. The majority of the Supreme Court understands this, as does anyone in authority committed to increasing their power.
But then again, seeing right into the truth of matters will invariably break your heart. At least music sounds better.
From Red Dirt Marijuana -Terry Sothern
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch
Paper can be made inexpensively from hemp. However, in 1937, cotton growers, fearing competition from hemp growers, lobbied against marijuana (the dried leaves of the hemp plant) to make hemp illegal. In 1999, Governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura signed legislation making hemp farming legal in Minnesota.
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We have met the enemy and he is us
Pogo
A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.
Plutarch