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The Cannabis File: current work.

In 1967 I took up the weed, in my own way. I did a research report on it for my English writing assignment, which was an advanced course that actually required the report to have footnotes and references cited.

I did my report on Marijuana.

I found reports on it's use worldwide, and hippie stuff from musicians like Dylan Thomas, and even read multiple issues of The New Republic and Atlantic magazines. . .
 
I have a friend whose son at age 18 is so hooked on weed, his parents can't keep money in the house. It'll just be gone inside one day. Sometimes good stuff just turns up "missing", with the doors locked, so they know it's taken by him, the last fledgling in the nest. Do they kick him out? uhhhmmm..... naw, he'll fall in more with the crowd, maybe. Gotta Stand. As in "STAND".
 
My wife is the Tough Love distributor in my house. She says it's Mom's job to discipline girls, Dad's job to do the uncritical love thing.

Seems to be effective....
 
My ideals of limited federal government demand that Trump and his AG stand down on national enforcement. I don't even, really, approve the FDA. Stuff grows wild all over the world, and maybe we've smoked everything somehow over the ages, or boiled everything, or soaked everything in hot alcohol, or made beer from everything..... but our Constitution does not give our Federal government any business legislating about what we do or don't do with it all. Maybe the States could, if people wanted, but not the Fed gov.
 
But I've taught my kids that all chemicals, natural or man-made, generally are about as good for medicine or recreation, as tar. If you burn it, some of becomes tar vapors all ready to stick to any surface. Like walls, or lungs.
 
The above report discusses somewhat variant results, as in IQ scores, for example:

"frequent use starting in adolescence was associated with a loss of an average of 6 or up to 8 IQ points measured in mid-adulthood.43*Significantly, in that study, those who used marijuana heavily as teenagers and quit using as adults did not recover the lost IQ points."

But then, with significantly more tact, goes on to say that it's likely pot users were stupider in the first place....
 
My own ad hoc or anecdotal information does agree that adult users with a long history of use have difficulty grasping or verbalizing complex sentences, and tend to reply without significant comprehension something like "tl;dr", where I presume the d is for "didn't".
 
The underlying scientific or developmental facts explaining such effects have found some plausible explanation in biochemistry.

We produce our own natural cannabinoids, which we are learning are important in brain development. The presence of Marijuana cannabinoids appears to block binding from the natural ones, and prevent development of synapses and axons as should occur.
 
"Substantial evidence from animal research and a growing number of studies in humans indicate that marijuana exposure during development can cause long-term or possibly permanent adverse changes in the brain. Rats exposed to THC before birth, soon after birth, or during adolescence show notable problems with specific learning and memory tasks later in life.32–34" (ibid)*
 
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