Smokin’ The Pot Is Good For You

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You may not be into smoking marijuana.
You may be known to light up a joint or two with friends on the weekend.
Hell, you may do it every day, as much as you possibly can.

We’re not ones to judge.

No matter what your relationship with pot is, we think you’ll find the results of a recent study done by researchers at University of California San Diego pretty interesting.

It turns out that marijuana may actually be good for us binge-drinking party animals, AKA: college students. The study showed that smoking the pot helped protect our brains from all that harmful boozing (ice luge, anyone?) we do on a weekly basis.

The study was done on a test group of teens aged 16-19 who fell into three categories: binge drinkers (“We’ll turn studying into a drinking game!”), those who drank and smoked (“I always chase my beer with a bong hit!”), and those who rarely did either (wait..those people exist?). The results of the brain scans of these three groups came as a shock (and maybe a little bit of excitement) to us: when testing seven areas of the brain the teens who sucked on the reefer were in better shape than those who chose binge drinking alone.

So marijuana doesn’t kill brain cells? In fact, it makes our brains stronger?

Looks like I’ve been doing things totally wrong all these years. I need to start working some bong hits into my evening festivities; it might do me (and my GPA) some good.

4 Comments on "Smokin’ The Pot Is Good For You"

  1. Kay - Simmons College says:
    Mon, 31st Aug 20094:47 pm 

    Stoners probably have healthier brains because they drink less than binge-drinkers, not because pot is good for you. But it’s good to know that pot is healthier than alcohol!

  2. Erin says:
    Tue, 1st Sep 20096:25 pm 

    I’m so tired of ignorant people who do no research or read skewed articles (Fox news, anyone?) about the “degrading” elements of pot. The plant can only help you, not hurt.

    Why do you think so many cancer patients smoke the stuff? Do your research people. And thank you for posting this article =)

  3. Ocean says:
    Fri, 25th Sep 20093:15 pm 

    I smoke week akasionaly. Dosent meen im a bad prson. I think its better for you, Conspiracys help your mind wander, and that may lead to new inventions that will help the world in many ways.

    So just think more than once before you say ” Smoking pot is bad, and i think people who smoke pot are whorible peopel” , because the truth is were no diferent … Stoner – Not a stoner.. all the same

    My mind is spoken :) Tehe

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