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AdrenalineRush · 12-15-2009, 06:31 PM

This is an article I researched and made long ago.

The information here is pretty basic, as stated further in the article, since my idea was not to actually make a scientific article, but one with true information and easy explanations for the regular misinformed audience.

This might not be the right forum, but it is the most viewed. Also, mods, please sticky this so it is easy to find.

Here it goes. Pretty long, but interesting.

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Well. I am bored right now, so I decided I should kill some time and also, a few myths.

All I hear is stupid people babble about how marijuana affects the mind and kills braincells and makes you hallucinate and believe you are some freaky 1950’s superhero. For fuck’s sakes. If you dont know for certain what you are talking about, keep your mouth shut!

It is unbelievable how stupid people are, and how they will keep buying anything television will say. People are sheep.

Now, as to ease your mind, here we go with some easy explanation:

Fact 1. And this is a common misconception, Marijuana does not cause hallucinations.

How does MJ work?

Leaving all chemistry and biology behind, Marihuana contains two different formations of the same active ingredient. An ingredient which works on a specific part of the human brain, which is specifically designed for it because of natural prescense of cannabinoids on the body. Ill leave what those are aside for now.

When the actvie ingredients in Marijuana attach to these receptors, they trigger a natural reaction in which central nervous system neurotransmitters are quickly produced and released, then it proceeds to relax the peripherial nervous system drowning all in-body produced signals, hence, relaxing nerves and muscles and muscle reflexes while increasing awareness.

Why? Simple. As all useless signals sent by the infinite number of nerves all throughout your body are intercepted and slowed down as they race to your brain, your brain os now free of traffic and free to recieve and process the signals it recieves from the outside, as are skin-touch signals, sounds and visual signals. Also, taste and smell, even when these two could be affected by the smell of the oils left in your mouth from smoking the plant.

This is the reason why you can hear distant sounds as clearly as if they were right next to you, because your usual hearing is drowned by that almost silent buzzing noise in your ears, caused by blood pressure in the ear nerves and in your brain. With this buzzing noise calmed, your hearing is now as many times as powerfull and functioning closer to its full potential.

Body temperature signals on the nerves are also reduced, making your skin more sensible to outside touch.

Now, in your head; while all signals from the peripherial nervous system are slowed down, your brain is flooded with neurotransmitters, sending it to overdrive. That is the reason your mind is off at superspeed with millions of thoughts. Perception is also highly enhaced. And it is also the reason why time seems to be so slow.

Fact 2. About addiction.

This is one of the most common obsessions of the media.

THC, the active ingredient in Marijuana, is usually referred to as an ALKALOID. This term however, is erroneous.

THC is purely a carbohydrate. It contains no Nitrogen on its composition.

In all other common drugs, it is the prescense of nitrogen which causes withdrawal sympthoms and causes both psychological and physical addiction.

Marijuana, in fact, is not even half as addictive as tobacco. And also, it is much less harmful.

Addiction to marijuana, as alcoholism is caused by pre-existing psychological conditions. These are often caused by the enviroment on which each person grows.

A kid can get addicted to it as to anything if he or she comes from an unstable enviroment, such as violent families or parents who dont pay attention to them. The reason to this is they will usually try any of these socially questionable things with friends; and while their families mistreat/attack/ignore them, friends will always make them feel welcome. Hence, creating an emotional addiction.

If your kid is addicted to alcohol or drugs, you should think into yourself and realize what you are doing wrong, instead of accusing him and claiming he is a monster, because the only monster there, is YOU.

Fact 3. Overdose.

The actives in marijuana are very mild. Tests with lab animals have rendered useless.

The lethal dose for marijuana is simply too high and impossible to acheive. As stated from toleration experiments in labs, once again, it was shown an average 70kg person would have to smoke over 1500 pounds of marijuana in less than 5 minutes to acheive the lethal dose.

The lethal dose of nicotine from cigarettes, on the other hand, is 40 miligrams per hour. This means you need no more than to smoke half a box in 5 minutes to fall from nicotine poisoning.

Weed overdose is plain bullshit.

Misc. Cancer.

I dont know much about this, but 9 out of 10 this is accurate.
Leaving aside the use of Chronic for numbing the pain from advanced cancer, please read below.

The number of incidence in lung cancer from tobacco smokers is many times over that of cannabis smokers.

The reason of this, as of why is cannabis often used as a treatment to cancer patients is THC kills erratic tissue cells before they become carcinogenous, and also slows down the pace of growth and multiplication in already existing cancerous cells. Yes, once it is there, it cant really STOP it, but it can delay its span and also its apparition.

I still missed some info about vasodilation and aiding blood flow (blood pressure goes a little down for a reason). Sorry, Ill add to that later.
That is all I have now. Please show this article to others and help spread the truth.
Thank you for reading.

mazarxnl · 12-15-2009, 11:06 PM

Damn nice post AR. Keep em coming

Kiffer · 12-16-2009, 02:28 AM

Excellent article, man. Looking forward to any additions you may have.

AdrenalineRush · 12-16-2009, 04:03 PM

Greetings everyone.

Its 6 am and its damn cold here and Im laying in bed with nothing to do, so Ill just as well use this time to bring you some quick info about tobacco and how it is much more harmful than weed and still more harmful than you thought it was.

Sure, cigarette boxes tell you about emphysema and lung cancer, but there are lots of really nasty stuff you havent heard about, and no. Im not just talking about erectile dysfunction or sterility. Im talking about real pure evil.

First off, Lead.

This is just a quick counter, as lead and other heavy metal content in tobacco is about the same we consume in any other vegetable product we ingest. Lead is not naturally occurring in any plant. Lead is an element, not a compound poison, and it is present in the soil in different concentrations all over the surface of this little blue ball.

Anything that grows from the ground could contain lead. If you stopped growing tobacco and grew, say, tomatoes, they'd be just as leady or as radioactive uranium as your tobacco if said land contains such metals.

The true scary stuff comes now.

You have possibly never heard about how nicotine works and why it is so damn addictive.

Nicotine is a serotonin receptor agonist, it mimics the effect of serotonin throughout the body affecting metabolism, appetite, digestion, body energy, sociability, libido and mood.
Serotonin is the hormone responsible for social interaction, happiness or depression, sleep, digestion and also inhibition. Ecstasy and other stimulant drugs make your body produce lots of serotonin helping you lose inhibition and opening up.

Nicotine mimics serotonin, helping ease emotional stress, giving you more confidence and aiding concentration, but it also messes up with your serotonin receptors building tolerance to said hormone. This means you will now require to keep feeding your brain with nicotine if you dont want to suffer from social and sexual anxiety, metabolic disorders, emotional disturbance, insomnia and in some occasions, nervous breakdown.

Withdrawal symptoms from tobacco also include nervousness, anger and panic. It is this symptoms, aside from the unconscious reflex of popping out a cigarette (which has already programmed itself in your brain as the answer to a stressful situation) which keep feeding your addiction.

The amount of carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke is also way higher than that in marihuana smoke. Remember it is the leaves and stems you are smoking there, which contain like 6 times more solids than essential oils, which burn more slowly and hence cleaner.
Also, not all of those solids are combustible, they will only vaporize and condense throughout your respiratory system and stick onto the mucus for a long time.

That said, add to it all the chemicals they've been adding to cigarettes for the last 50 or 60 years.
These chemicals include:

Benzene (added to prolong "freshness"). You can find that shit easily if you were to start your cigarette company. It is a black metal bottle with dropping mouth and a large, red logo which reads "Zippo".

Eugenol. Added for flavouring and to avoid that dry feeling from filtered cigarettes. A psychedelic ingredient in nutmeg and cloves. Also a high class carcinogenic and the one chemical that sent all those teenagers to ER from lung haemorrhage for smoking clove cigarettes like it were some kind of race or game. All cigarettes by Phillip Morris Inc. (the guys that make Marlboros) contain eugenol, thats why I only smoke Lucky Strikes.

Artificial flavourings. Most industrial cigarettes contain them, although aside of eugenol, I dont know what the others are.

That strange syrup they add to Marlboros so they dont make you thirsty. I dont know what it is either, but it freaks me out to know I could be smoking motor oil. One more reason I stick to American cigarettes.

Thats right. The manly American cowboy? My ass. Marlboros were Brittish in the first place. Now they are Mexican, but the recipe stays the same.

About Philip Morris Inc. For those of you who dont know, It wasnt a tobacco company. It was merely a sub-division of Altria Group. An industrial giant based in England, dedicated to, among other things, car paint, solvents and heavy machinery.
The PM subdivision was just recently bought by Charles Slim (Carlos Slim), who is basically a Mexican Donald Trump.

Kiffer · 12-16-2009, 05:42 PM

Once again another very informative article. I had no idea Marlboro added a syrup to reduce thirst to their cigarettes. Weird.

AdrenalineRush · 12-16-2009, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Kiffer

Once again another very informative article. I had no idea Marlboro added a syrup to reduce thirst to their cigarettes. Weird.

Yep. Wierd I know, but smoke one and for how rough it is, you still wont get that nasty dry mouth you get from Camels, Luckies or any of those small unrelated cigarette makers like Posse, West or Cohiba.

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