On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Rob Gaylard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There's a slightly alarming article in today's Sunday Independent on > the effect of coffee, cigarettes, alcohol and cannabis on the brain. > The study in question uses a Spect scanner (photon emission > computerised tomography) to monitor brain activity. The book is called > 'Change your Brain, Change your Life' by a neuroscientist and > psychiatrist called Daneil G. Amen (Professor of Psychiatry at the U. > of California). I suppose all this is vaguely related to crime? > > Thanks Rob _ i think this discussion definitely belongs here as it is discussing a crime that should not be! I think that while dagga is considered harmless and less harmful than other drugs it might well have some negative side effects in some people. But the important thing is that while nicotine and alcohol (which are both directly and indirectly responsible for thousands of deaths each year remain legal but smoking dagga is a crime) Add to this some of the underlying reasons why this is so and it becomes an even more unreasonable state of affairs. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to look up the LD50 doses of these three recreational drugs - LD50 being a horrific lab test to see what dosage of the drug kills 50% of the tested animals. From there they extrapolate to human dosages. I don't think there is a single recorded death by cannabis overdose where as alcohol and nicotine and caffeine are all lethal in smaller doses than you would have thought Of course smoking dagga is supposed to change your brain - if it did not what would be the point. One day perhaps the law makers will come to their senses regarding this matter. Trev --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
