What good is making **** illegal, if you can't enforce it?

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by fintstone

Are they? Nothing to indicate that. No quotation marks.

One does not normally put quotes around a screen shot.

Originally Posted by fintstone

Not quoted the way posts are normally quoted here. Who did you quote? Not a cut and paste of one of my posts.

It is a screen shot of your words. But as I said before, you may have deleted the post out of embarrassment.

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

One does not normally put quotes around a screen shot.



It is a screen shot of your words. But as I said before, you may have deleted the post out of embarrassment.

Not a screen shot of anything I posted. Try again.

I don't delete my posts. Do you? Maybe you should as you are making a fool out of yourself.

[fintstone]

You have used as a byline in other threads. Fess up.

[wdfifteen]

It;d be fif the G

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

It;d be fif the G

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[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by fintstone

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Distracted typing - wife telling me to come to bed.

I'm through with this thread. If you can't tell a screen shot of your words from a signature line there is no use talking to you.

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Distracted typing - wife telling me to come to bed.

I'm through with this thread. If you can't tell a screen shot of your words from a signature line there is no use talking to you.

LOL. You know it is a sig line...that you stole from another poster (not a screen shot of any of my posts)..and you pated it where your sig line would be...multiple times.

You never wanted to talk to me...just to make a drive-by insult. Just like you (and guys like you) do in PARF. You did not address the topic at all. Anything to prevent adult discussion that you disagree with.

[fintstone]

https://www.inverse.com/article/40228-chronic-marijuana-smoking-addiction-depression

Smoking marijuana is becoming increasingly legal and mainstream in the United States. More than 33 million adults identify as pot smokers, and teenagers in particular are feeling more comfortable with weed, thanks to its status as a safe drug.

That cultural shift may need some rethinking. A new study suggests that there can be potential negative long-term effects of heavy marijuana use — especially if people begin smoking at a young age. Published last November in the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience, the findings are part of a larger effort by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to better understand the effects of chronic smoking, a murky issue.

According to the study, heavy marijuana use was linked to changes in the parts of the brain that are involved in reward processing and habit formation. Cameron Carter, Ph.D., the editor of Biological Psychiatry, explained in a statement released Monday that this suggests “heavy use of this popular drug may lead to depression and other even more severe forms of mental illness.”

Long term cannabis use appears to alter the parts of the brain linked to negative emotion.
Early onset cannabis use was associated with a higher risk for poor neuropsychiatric outcomes.

Scientists analyzed resting brain data from 441 people between the ages of 22 and 35, already collected through the Human Connectome Project, a collaboration between the University of Southern California and Harvard University to map the structural and functional neural connections of individuals. Thirty of these study participants were already established as meeting the DSM criteria for marijuana dependence. The research team also assessed the brain scans of 30 people between the same ages who did not smoke marijuana as a control group.

They discovered that the individuals who had starting using cannabis early in life exhibited the most significant changes in their brain’s subcortical volumes, as well as changes to the functional connectivity density in the brain’s ventral striatum, midbrain, brainstem, and lateral thalamus. The scientists explain that these changes, described as “hyperconnectivity,” end up disturbing resting brain functions associated with habit formation, reward processing, and the development of psychosis (defined as when one’s emotions and thoughts aren’t in touch with reality).

These individuals also reported the highest levels of negative emotions. The study’s authors think that makes sense, since these brain alternations are often associated with heightened feelings of negativity and alienation — which they reason is why people who are dependent on marijuana often report that they feel a sense of rejection from others.

The study links an increased risk for psychosis to cannabis abuse.

This study adds to the growing number of studies that have found heavy smoking can be linked to psychosis, cognitive impairments, and depression — an effect driven by the low dopamine release seen in the brains of chronic users.

Scientists are still learning why these effects manifest, and they suspect THC, the most famous active chemical compound in cannabis, is to blame. Another chemical compound in cannabis, CBD, has been found to have the opposite effect: A study published in December found that CBD could be useful in treating psychotic disorders.

It’s clear these days marijuana use is not the death knell that health advocates early last century feared it was. On the other hand, new studies like this also emphasize that there’s still a ton we don’t know about how drugs affect the brain, especially in the long run.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by fintstone

LOL. You know it is a sig line...that you stole from another poster (not a screen shot of any of my posts)..and you pated it where your sig line would be...multiple times.

I cut and pasted it only in posts where I ridiculed your ridiculous claim that high level people in government and the media monitor your posts to get their ideas. It is simply presented as proof that you actually made that absurd assertion. It appears in none of my other posts. It is not a sig line, it is a screen shot of your words. Good for a laugh.

I once vowed not to get involved in another one of Fint's ridiculous pissing contests. It appears I have fallen off the wagon. I apologize to anyone who has wasted time reading this BS.

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I cut and pasted it only in posts where I ridiculed your ridiculous claim that high level people in government and the media monitor your posts to get their ideas. It is simply presented as proof that you actually made that absurd assertion. It appears in none of my other posts. It is not a sig line, it is a screen shot of your words. Good for a laugh.

I once vowed not to get involved in another one of Fint's ridiculous pissing contests. It appears I have fallen off the wagon. I apologize to anyone who has wasted time reading this BS.

Sure it was...LOL. Just like a couple of posts ago when you said

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

...I'm through with this thread...

I know...you just dropped in to a thread about enforcing illegal *** and the best argument you could come up with a personal insult to me (nothing on the topic). Name-calling is pretty weak sauce.

What did you expect...no, what did you ask for if not a pissing contest? Do other folks just agree with you when you insult them? Get over yourself and act like an adult if you want to be treated as one.

Of course...a screen shot of someone else's sig line posted on multiple posts (on multiple threads) of yours where the sig line goes looks nothing like a sig line? Are you serious? Get a grip. If you can't discuss the topic at hand, why not just STFU?

[fintstone]

Girl, 9, unknowingly hands out THC-laced candy to classmates, school s

Which of these gummi bears is pot infused? Can you tell? Can your kid?



The one on the left.

[Gogar]

Any good kid would eat both.

[dan88911]

Nine yr. old girls parents are the problem.

[gacook]

Originally Posted by fintstone

I don't think obeying the law takes nonhumans...similarly, I don't see much difficulty respecting the oath they took. Didn't you when you served?

I must not be human as I did not drink underage in the service. I did not even consider doing so.

Having been an 18-20 year old man in the Army, with MANY 18-20 year old Air Force friends, I can personally attest that they drank underage quite often. Anecdotal, but finding one out of the couple hundred or so I hung out/drank with on a fairly regular basis would be cake

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by gacook

Having been an 18-20 year old man in the Army, with MANY 18-20 year old Air Force friends, I can personally attest that they drank underage quite often. Anecdotal, but finding one out of the couple hundred or so I hung out/drank with on a fairly regular basis would be cake

They don't do that no mo....ask fint

If he ever wants to lose a bundle....he'll bet me that I can't find any though

He lives in Bedrock....not the real world evidently....

[gacook]

Originally Posted by KC911

They don't do that no mo....ask fint

If he ever wants to lose a bundle....he'll bet me that I can't find any though

He lives in Bedrock....not the real world evidently....

I'm not quite as old as many here...I was 18-20 in the very late '90s.