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I have delved a little deeper into this issue and here is what Dr. Deepak Chopra has to say in his book 'Creating Health.'
`Data on the impairment of the immune system from the habitual use of marijuana has not received the publicity it deserves. In a significant finding by one Columbia University study , the antibodies produced by marijuana smokers declined drastically during one month of heavy use. When smoking was totally discontinued, however,the antibodies only returned to normal levels very slowly, and even five weeks later there were signs of decrease. Althought this finding of immunotoxicity(damage to the immune system)is most striking in the case of marijuana ,it is apparently induced by other drug addictions as well. Unless attitudes towards drug taking change signifcantly, we face the prospect of large numbers of people who use recreational drugs becoming highly susceptible to disease...
~I believe alcohol is a toxin . It impaires clear perception and motor coordination. It has poisonous effects on the heart, liver and brain that do not seem to be reversible. It contributes to sensless deaths from automobile accidents that number twenty -five thousand fatalities a year. Anything that harmful ,even in small doses, is not a legitimate part of perfect health; therefore, I recommend complete abstinence from alcohol...
Something to think about!
Thank you Inda for this comment.
Young people should not use marijuana because the brain is not fully formed until 23 years of age.
Marijuana is legal in Canada now, but I think it is much stronger than what you are talking about. I see young people whose brains are not full developed until about age 23 behaving absolutely foolishly. I agree, alcoholism is not good either.
Marijuana over activates parts of the brain that contain the highest number of these receptors. This causes the "high" that people feel. Other effects include:
Marijuana also affects brain development. When people begin using marijuana as teenagers, the drug may impair thinking, memory, and learning functions and affect how the brain builds connections between the areas necessary for these functions. Researchers are still studying how long marijuana's effects last and whether some changes may be permanent.
For example, a study from New Zealand conducted in part by researchers at Duke University showed that people who started smoking marijuana heavily in their teens and had an ongoing marijuana use disorder lost an average of 8 IQ points between ages 13 and 38. The lost mental abilities didn't fully return in those who quit marijuana as adults. Those who started smoking marijuana as adults didn't show notable IQ declines.5
In another recent study on twins, those who used marijuana showed a significant decline in general knowledge and in verbal ability (equivalent to 4 IQ points) between the preteen years and early adulthood, but no predictable difference was found between twins when one used marijuana and the other didn't. This suggests that the IQ decline in marijuana users may be caused by something other than marijuana, such as shared familial factors (e.g., genetics, family environment).6 NIDA’s Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, a major longitudinal study, is tracking a large sample of young Americans from late childhood to early adulthood to help clarify how and to what extent marijuana and other substances, alone and in combination, affect adolescent brain development. Read more about the ABCD study on our Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD Study) webpage.
I agree with you yoko.
Young people's brains are not fully formed until age 23, and the product is much stronger now than it used to be.
Thank you yoko and Vicky for posting this wisdom. I agree with both of you.
Thank you yoko and Vicky for your wisdom. I totally agree with you.
