High-strength cannabis may damage nerve fibres that handle the flow of messages across the two halves of the brain, scientists claim. Brain scans of people who regularly smoked strong skunk-like cannabis revealed subtle differences in the white matter that connects the left and right hemispheres and carries signals from one side of the brain to the other.
The changes were not seen in those who never used cannabis or smoked only the less potent forms of the drug, the researchers found.
This sentence amuses me haha
As You Blink Quickly Up At Tha Sun , OOPS Your “nerve fibres” Recoil … ,
T(Y)me to Turn Off Tha Sun … ,
It’s Too Hawt During Tha Summer N e Wayze … ,
(if you know what e(Y)e mean) … ,
Seriously Tho , e(Y)e Can’t Wait …
New research highlights the damage wrought by strong skunk. Legalisation would give users far greater control and choice over the strength of what they smoked .
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/27/cannabis-legalised-brain-damage-skunk
I have never smoked cannabis probably because I never had the social contacts and peer pressure to try. My brother has and over time he has exhibited more signs of paranoia. Whether cannabis made him paranoid or triggered an already present tendency to paranoia I do not know for certain. What I do know is that from a familial position there is a loading for paranoia. In my mother’s case it was exacerbated by alcohol ,in my brother’s cannabis and in mine bullying and peer rejection with stress tending to heighten my paranoia.
Would legalisation reduce the amount of skunk/increase the amount of low THC cannabis?- very possibly Is bringing cannabis production under government control a good idea or is it fraught with problems?
Are some people so hooked on skunk that they wouldn’t be interested in more benign alternatives ?
All I smoked was potent "skunk-like cannabis"
This probably explains why i have trouble thinking to this day.
I used to smoke to function and now I can’t smoke and I don’t function very well anyway. bring on the CBD drugs they’re all natural and could be the answer to my payers!