Pot Smoking Middle Agers Have Sharper Minds

Newser.com:

Past or present drug use doesn't seem to damage middle-aged brains, a new study finds.

British researchers studied the mental sharpness of thousands of 50-year-old subjects, and found that those who had used illicit drugs—mainly marijuana—actually performed better than others on tests of memory and other brain functions.

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Comments

[ReformKyCannabis]

11:32 PM on 02/05/2012

Isnt this why we cant get it legal to start with? We that see the truth and fight for the right to use it are fighting those that dont because they are dumb!

[mmaacupuncture]

12:38 AM on 01/20/2012

I already new!

[Crabitha]

10:02 PM on 01/17/2012

Is the guy in that picture supposed to be middle-aged? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[BluePhantom2]

10:04 PM on 01/15/2012

How about some new content HP/AOL Corp? This has been up since day one!

[mynamesyow]

02:28 PM on 01/18/2012

the report is from 2 weeks ago...

[Richard Raznikov]

05:40 PM on 01/15/2012

Oddly enough, the commentary on the original source rapidly turned into a fierce debate on Ron Paul and abortion. Does it strike anyone else as peculiar that that's what seems to be happening on any news or commentary relating in any respect to the Paul campaign and the difficulties people are having coming to terms with it? Paul would legalize drugs but would also take issues such as abortion out of federal purview. To many, this would result in criminalizing abortion in many states, an issue evidently more important to some than the million people (a very disproportionate number of them being black) arrested each year on pot busts, the prison populations and the costs thereof, not to mention a little matter of the Bill of Rights and the federal government's imposition of massive surveillance and, now, imprisonment without trial. I've been a 'feminist' for forty years and favor no government restrictions on abortion, but I am troubled by the emphasis on that as an issue to the exclusion of a great many others.

[Dwight5]

01:29 PM on 01/14/2012

The pot helps, but it's also that sharper minds are attracted to pot!

[muzzled]

07:02 AM on 01/14/2012

alcohol is the gateway drug, pot is the stop gap drug. I haven't checked lately but all those "Drug Free America" TV commercials years ago were paid for by, guess who? Anheuser Busch. Stop, think, ask why.

[peaceonearth]

08:59 PM on 01/10/2012

And another recent study shows smoking pot doesn't affect lung capacity even for long-time frequent users. ;)
http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/10/10098412-smoking-pot-doesnt-hurt-lung-capacity-study-shows

[mynamesyow]

02:32 PM on 01/18/2012

good link. thanks

[Lee Eisenstein]

02:00 PM on 01/10/2012

Big surprise and very weird news...(not)...

Cannabinoids have been shown to protect brain cells and they are not just made by marijuana plants, by any means. Our brains and nervous system make them, they protect both physical and psychological health. They stimulate appetite and new mothers immediately feed their newborn babies with a large dose of them in the first hit of breast milk. All animals above insects have cannabinoidal systems.

Huffington Post needs to get out more often.;)

[stjoshy]

06:58 PM on 01/06/2012

the old guy in the pic is saying, 'yeah i taught snoop how to roll a blunt, what of it?" ..also, LEGALIZE IT ALREADY. LET IT HELP GIVE THE ECONOMY A BOOST. LET IT FREE UP JAIL SPACE FOR REAL CRIMINALS. LET IT CUT DOWN ON THE DUI RATE. LET IT HELP THE SICK AND INFIRM... STOP THIS SENSELESS PROHIBITION ALREADY. FIGHT BIG TOBACCO, ALCOHOL, AND PHARMA... THIS IS AMERICAAAAAAAAA!

[ray christl]

01:52 PM on 01/10/2012

I'm with you...

[Jeff Tenenbaum]

08:15 PM on 01/10/2012

Ahhhhh, that was good. "I taught Snoop how to roll a blunt".

[miz mendo]

01:06 PM on 01/06/2012

Eventually, we'll recognize this amazing plant for the gift she is, as the evidence of the efficacy of cannabis in a myriad of medical applications accrues.

Alliteration seems to be a side-effect of the morning puff. My apologies.

I heard it mentioned recently that the prohibition of pot could be seen as one of the biggest human holocausts in history, since the facts of its healing properties have been suppressed by the DEA, and people have suffered and died needlessly when the medicine was close at hand.

[Newocean]

11:46 AM on 01/06/2012

I worked my way through college in a bar as a doorman, bartender & Manager.
I saw the debilitating effects of alcohol 1st hand. The human brain and body are filled
with Cannabinoid receptors. Listen to a cannibus researcher, not some corporate liar from Dupont, Monsanto, or multi-billion dollar pHARMaceutical corpos like Merck. Pfizer, Amgen, etc who profit from the prohibition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piMS-mGrqoM

[claygooding]

10:21 AM on 01/06/2012

I am 62 and have smoked marijuana for 44 years,, I still remember my first joint, sitting on a sand bag in Viet Nam and howling at the brightest moon I have ever seen,, and no hangover the next day,, alcohol lost a good customer that day.

[KafeSociety]

01:20 AM on 01/14/2012

Regardless of where you or I stand on 'Nam, thank you for your service to our country.

[samuraifrog37]

11:49 PM on 01/05/2012

Enough said !! I want justice !! NOW. Legalize.

[davyjones2112]

08:43 PM on 01/05/2012

i like how REASON is dominating this discussion