On 01 Nov 2017, at 21:51, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 11/1/2017 8:31 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Even if cannabis did not have any medical use, the papers showing
its danger have all been shown to be gross frauds, all the times.
It's dangers have been exaggerated, but there are dangers as with
alcohol, tobacco, and other things.
I have not found a paper showing this.
Each time I found a more serious study, like the one by Tashkin in
2015, the result is "no problem" or even "good".
In particular, one of its studies (not sure if it is the one from
2015) seemed to show that for lungs problem (emphysema, and lungs
cancers), putting those having less problem at the bottom, and more
problems at the top we have (in that study, on about 3000 person
followed since 20 years (from memory):
Tobacco smoker
Cannabis+tobacco smoker
Non-smoker
Cannabis smoker
Apparently cannabis smoker have less problem than non smoker, not
much, but still statistically significant.
My wife's first husband was (psychologically) addicted to smoking
marijuana and lost all ambition.
I thought that from my students behavior when I was a young (math)
teacher. But I have stopped to believe that. I have understood that,
by its bad press and its innocuousness, cannabis was easily used by
(lazy or problematic student) to give a simple explanation for their
lack of work: they are intoxicated, druggy, etc. By changing my
attitude toward smoking-cannabis students, I got the change of the
results. Completely. Statistically, they got the best results, since
long.
Maybe your wife's first husband was told that if he smokes cannabis it
will lost ambition. Then again, smoking cannabis will help him to
remain inactive with a simple culprit.
In general, cannabis is helpful to enhance motivation, and to find it
back after some trauma. Of course, it is easier to control when it is
prescribed, and not demonized.
It is not socially right to lack ambition, so maybe the guy here was
just using cannabis to be able to point on an easy culprit too.
Again, I have not yet come to any serious studies showing the lack of
motivation syndrom that some people often associated to cannabis. If a
student compalin that he is a druggy, and you told him that due to
this habit he will never succeed, there will be few chance for him to
succeed. If you tell him: "oh, excellent, I expect you to succeed very
well then", you cut the pretext out, and if they really want to "not
succeed", they will try something else.
Bruno
Brent
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