Smokin’ The Pot Is Good For You

August 31, 2009 3:00 pm     Posted in Body  Candy -- NYU g+ page

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By Candy

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.

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

  1. Kay - Simmons Colleg says:
    Mon, 31st Aug 200911:47 am 

    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 20091:25 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 200910:15 am 

    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

  4. Rachel says:
    Sun, 15th Aug 201010:17 pm 

    Honestly, I love pot. Before you dismiss me as a stoner though, I have to explain how it's helped me.

    I have clinical depression, and the medications I've tried stopped working and gave me horrible side effects. Furthermore, my mother has the same condition, and I've seen how her doctors are constantly increasing her dosages. She's older now, and it helps her a lot, so I think it works for her. However, they didn't work for me, and since I'm entering my second year of college, I don't want my whole life to follow her example.

    After doing some research, I found that pot really has been shown to have amazing anti-depressant qualities. And many years have shown me that this is 100% true. Whenever it get's overwhelming and I think about suicide, just a joint or a bowl turns me right around. It's miraculous, and that is just simply no embellishment. I've been smoking fairly regularly for about four years now, and none of the horrible side effects I've read about have come up. The disgusting lie that it kills brain cells (please, PLEASE look up where that came from if you haven't heard the full story of how the single scientist who came up with that finding reached it through hooking up rhesus monkeys to gas masks that forced them to inhale smoke for minutes, effectively causing oxygen deprivation) simply is bogus (I just made Dean's List my second semester and get As on papers I write the morning of), nor am I addicted (having gone through months long periods without it).

    Nothing new to me here.

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