Smoking Pot doesnt hurt Lung Capacity.....WINNING!!!

Enjoyed it. Gotta go paint a door.

Brief, you got guts, my friend. Outnumbered, but standing strong. I'd trust you with my back.

I agree to disagree with you on this cannabis issue.

Respect.

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I smoked it every weekend ended up getting psychosis now stuck at home paranoid, no friends, no life and stuck on harmfull antipsychotic called Quetiapine 600mg to be taken at night. Used to be on 20 mg Olanzapine and 60mg fluoxetine antidepressant then 30mg citalopram now 200mg sertralin to be taken in the morning.I thought my manager was a demon so i cut a cross into my face and got accused of being on drugs, great life eh.

if you are blaming weed then i call

Yea I call bullshit if your saying Mary J caused this.

Sounds like you had some underlying issues going on there before you even touched the green stuff.

Nothing here about pot causing your condition. You need a second opinion dude!

Psychosis

Last reviewed: February 7, 2010.

Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality, usually including false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations).

Causes, incidence, and risk factors

A number of substances and medical conditions can cause psychosis, including:

Alcohol and certain illegal drugs, both during use and during withdrawal

Brain tumors or cysts

Dementia (including Alzheimer's disease)

Degenerative brain diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and certain chromosomal disorders

HIV and other infections that affect the brain

Some prescription drugs, such as steroids and stimulants

Some types of epilepsy

Stroke

Psychosis is also part of a number of psychiatric disorders, including:

Bipolar disorder (manic or depressed)

Delusional disorder

Depression with psychotic features

Personality disorders (schizotypal, shizoid, paranoid, and sometimes borderline)

Schizoaffective disorder

Schizophrenia

Symptoms

Psychotic symptoms may include:

Disorganized thought and speech

False beliefs that are not based in reality (delusions), especially unfounded fear or suspicion

Hearing, seeing, or feeling things that are not there (hallucinations)

Thoughts that "jump" between unrelated topics (disordered thinking)

Signs and tests

Psychiatric evaluation and testing are used to diagnose the cause of the psychosis.

Laboratory testing and brain scans may not be needed, but sometimes can help pinpoint the diagnosis. Tests may include:

Blood tests for abnormal electrolyte and hormone levels

Blood tests for syphilis and other infections

Drug screens

MRI of the brain

I'm a "stoner", if you will. I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering and I run a small business. I have several "stoner" friends in various stages of their graduate degrees. Stereotype much?

Older studies indicate that certain strains containing large proportions of tetrahydrocannabinol and low proportions of cannabidiol[51][52] merely lowers the threshold for psychosis, and thus helps to trigger full-blown psychosis in some people.[53] On the other hand, cannabis use has increased dramatically over the past few decades but declined in the last decade, whereas the rate of psychosis has not increased. This suggests cannabis generally only hastens the onset of psychosis in those who would otherwise only become psychotic at a later date

You need to get out of your basement more often then.

Which means your were psycho to begin with. The pot just showed your true colors faster.

Fine i will tell you my story started smoking weed, smoked strong stuff like cheese. I thought my friends were invisble demons who planned on killing me and i could hear them because i had a pure heart. I thought my parents were demons, i could hear conversations at work between my teamleader and a manager talking about me getting bullied and i confronted her and she said she wasn't even in. I was on the bus with some other friends not who i smoke weed with to go out clubbing and heard them saying about me paying for it all i took the bus back and sent them text about them going to hell and how i knew they were demons.I was fucked up, i ran away from people walking home from work because i was convinced they were part of a peadophile ring out to rape me and kill me, taking different routes home, writing registration numbers down. So i went to the doctors they reffered me to a psychiatrist there was two polish ones questioning me, then i went to see a spanish psychiatrist who prescribed me 5mg olanzapine and i got a cpn and was reffered to the group cameo, went up to 20 mg olanzapine and 60mg fluoxetine. The fluoxetine made me anxious and shake so came of that, got deppressed got put on 10mg citalopram that went up to 30mg, didnt't help so now on 200mg sertraline it went up 50mg every two weeks and i got put on quetiapine up to 600mg because if someone looked at me i thought they had stollen my bank detailes and were going to hack me. So now i have no friends i am on DLA disability living allowence and i sit at home all day and play on my ps3 i am 22 and have not gone out in years except to the shop.

strong stuff like cheese? what does that mean?

that is a sad story and i am sorry for you condition but did a doctor tell you the weed brought this on or are you assuming that?

OMG Im sorry you are suffering, my heart goes out to you, if you need a friend Im here, don't give up

What kind weed is cheese? Is it laced with something?

Maybe hummus?

You don't giggle at the Zohan!

The psychiatrist asked me if i had takien cocaine, but i had not just weed. Cheese is what we refer to as strong weed it has alot of crystals. The psychiatrist confirmed it was the weed which caused it. I didn't do bongs, i did shooters where we make a couple of holes in a empty coke bottle stuck the spliff in and filled it up with smoke and took it down, i usually smoked spliffs with some tobacco i couldn't roll so it was my friends who rolled. I remember having some blueberry weed and i usually brought a quarter at weekeds and the eighths were hench usually 3.7g because my friend had a good dealer which is over a eighth. i admit one night i brought an ounce and smoked tons my first spliff was what we call a blunt, no tobacco just weed i smoked every weeked but in large amounts, i'm guessing the cheese with high thc levels could have been the cause?

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well someone did point out that it could bring out or intensify an underlying issue.

like i was saying with depression earlier in the thread

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Yes i admit i could have been Susceptible to having psychosis, i have no history in my family though. Before weed was clubbing booze and girls and confidence. After weed is sitting at home every week, where my psychiatric nurse will come out and see me, a psychologist will come out and see me, a STR worker will come out and see me and every few months i will have to see a psychiatrist and go to my gp to check if my meds are having side effects.My life sucks, seriously the meds are so sedating i feel tired all the time, i have no energy and i sit at home looking at game forums, glp and mental health forums. and play call of duty and uncharted 3, while constantly thinking someone is going to kill me, break into my house, hack my bank account, thinking i sent texts to people during sleeps with my bank details. Man not worth it. the bottom line is you don't know your susseptable until you do weed, this is a warning!

that was fast

hang in there Jay

Brief, sometimes people are just stupid, not based on what they do or ingest, they are just stupid.

In my many years of working with people in their homes, I have run across some of the most ignorant people you will ever meet, however you can't associate their ignorance with their lifestyle.

For example, most richy-rich type people in big expensive houses, with big expensive toys, have no idea how to work them. They would ask me for help with hooking up stereo tuners, speakers, and program their fancy remote controls. My field is in cable installation, but to me anyone who can read instructions can perform these tasks. Are you going to tell me that money makes people stupid?

Go down to the local trailer park. These people don't smoke weed, they spend their days drinking beer and watching football. Does that mean that beer and TV kill brain cells and makes people stupid?

The idea that smoking pot makes people stupid is just as ridiculous that it leads you to harder drugs. If someone drinks a beer and then tries cocaine, would you say that the beer was a "gateway" to illegal drugs? No because there are people out there who don't fall into that category.

Sometimes you just have to call it like you see it, and stupid people are just that, stupid. Doesn't matter what they do, they just are.

So don't make that type of un-educated association please, you only make yourself look just as ignorant as those you point your finger at.

I started smoking at 9 and now I'm 43 and no trouble health wise.

When I go to the Dr and they listen to my lungs, they don't even ask if I smoke.

I'm curious how a 9 year old starts smoking weed...did you have parents or siblings who did it?

what about tar capacity? thats definitely gotta decrease, unless you cough alot, so make sure you buy the good shit EVERY time lol

back off walkersUNDERwear

wanna see how fast i can burn every pr((0))xsee ?
back the fuck off skidmark

who said brain cells don't grow back - yer mom?

how so?
ever do any research on marijuana's physiological effects on the brain, actually? or just the slowed reaction time and short-term-memory effects (that only last WHILE the user is actually intoxicated, btw) because marijuana IS known to kill brain cells, its called apoptosis and these brain cells were already dead, old or otherwise not working at maximum potential so they are SHED necessarily with the help of marijuana in this case. and then neurogenesis occurs....because the marijuana instigated apoptosis now there is the opportunity for new growth.


i'd say within 10 years all the last little myths about marijuana will finally be proven false or of little consequence (i mean, come on, short-term memory loss WHILE intoxicated....that does not cause any actual damage to memory...i'd say that is of little consequence. its already close to that as it is, but pot does not make on brain dead.

people should also consider the type of person that would make marijauana any kind of regular habit, especially in a society that shuns it and criminalizes it. many of those people are virtually brain dead from the get go.....so its not really fair to blame a neutral drug for the mass idiocy running rampant atm.