Does smoking marijuana really kill brain cells?
I personally think this “kills brain cells” stuff is like a bad myth. It is my opinion that it is a bit bogus. Regardless of this opinion on brain cells, smoking marijuana does alter personality characteristics for the worse. The following is a report of my personal research and observation with over 1,000 people. I doubt that any of the critics who rated this data as false conducted their own first-hand investigation. There is no doubt that marijuana adversely alters personality characteristics long-term of an individual. I personally observed this after over 1,000 interviews with people from all walks of life who filled out a character questionaire (more than a hundred questions). It got to where I could look at the results of the form and predict that the person had been doing drugs. I was even surprised one day when I asked this 60 year old grandma if she was smoking pot… …and she said “yes”. One will find these characteristics diminished: ability to concentrate or focus, abili
I have been using Marijuana 4 or 5 times a day for the past year and a half and have been using the drug in general for the past 3 years. Overall, I would say that cannabis has definitely had an effect on my life, but surprisingly enough to many I would say it was for the better. Because of my marijuana use I am able to unwind easily in stressful situations, I am able to take a new perspective on a multitude of situations in order to come to a suitable solution for my problems, I have become astronomically more social, and I even feel as though I have expanded my intelligence. I have always been a decent student but after the summer that I started smoking in “high doses” I did the best I ever did in school, getting a 4.4 GPA on a 4.0 scale, and I even relaxed about the famed ACT, earning myself a solid 33 out of 36. I am on my way to a university I would like to think is prestigious and am about to major in biochemistry, hopefully attending med school in 4 years to start my path to hea
“The most celebrated study that claims to show brain damage is the rhesus monkey study of Dr. Robert Heath, done in the late 1970s. This study was reviewed by a distinguished panel of scientists sponsored by the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences. Their results were published under the title, Marijuana and Health in 1982. Heath’s work was sharply criticized for its insufficient sample size (only four monkeys), its failure to control experimental bias, and the misidentification of normal monkey brain structure as “damaged”. Actual studies of human populations of marijuana users have shown no evidence of brain damage. For example, two studies from 1977, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of marijuana. That same year, the American Medical Association (AMA) officially came out in favor of decriminalizing marijuana.
