Does weed damage brain cells

Does smoking weed damage your brain cells?

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They both do. I know so many people addicted to one or the other that have really screwed up their lives. Unless you are a person who can severely limit their intake of either one or both, it’s best to leave it alone altogether. In my exper…

Does weed kill brain cells?

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No it dosent kill brain cells. It just makes your short term memory brain cells dormat for a while. If you stop smoking for awhile they come back. people now these days say everything will give you cancer, half of it is bs. Today someone sa…

How does weed kill brain cells?

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Yes and it does other things to the body. It messes up your hormones which can affect your having children or not. It is also a “gateway” drug to other drugs.

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Does smoking weed damage your brain cells?

Q: Does it damage them a lot? Does alcohol also damage brain cells?which drug damages the cells more?

A: Yes. Any drug that causes euphoria kills brain cells.

Is weed bad for your body and damages brain cells?

Q: im so tired of the arguements, half the people say it doesnt do a thing and the other half says it fries your brain and its toxic to your body. if any of you smoke pot have you found differences in the daily things you do.. like getting slower and being really tired?

A: Marijuana, weed, pot, whatever you want to call it does not kill your brain cells and make you stupid. I’m not sure where this myth came from but it’s not true. The main chemical in weed that gives the “high”feeling is called THC (tetrahydrocannabinol in case you’d like to look it up), and when it enters the bloodstream, it travels to the brain & binds to receptors. the feelings of being high include: altered perception of time (everything goes by really slow, you might talk and feel like it happens about 5 minutes later, or look at the clock once in a while and only 6 minutes have gone by when it seems like an hour.) things might spin a little bit and look lighter. you feel really light, your muscles feel heavy, you literally feel like everything is a dream because of your slow reaction time and the way it makes you feel (really hard to describe). i smoke, and there are no differences once the high is gone which only should last a few hours anyway. no long term behavioral effects have been known to occur in smokers though, so you don’t get “dumb” from it, it only affects your short term memory slightly because of the disruption of nerve cells in your brain. i haven’t been affected by that at all though.

Weed doesnt kill brain cells?

Q: Government experts now admit that pot doesn’t kill brain cells.(8) This myth came from a handful of animal experiments in which structural changes (not actual cell death, as is often alleged) were observed in brain cells of animals exposed to high doses of pot. Many critics still cite the notorious monkey studies of Dr. Robert G. Heath, which purported to find brain damage in three monkeys that had been heavily dosed with cannabis.(9) This work was never replicated and has since been discredited by a pair of better controlled, much larger monkey studies, one by Dr. William Slikker of the National Center for Toxicological Research(10) and the other by Charles Rebert and Gordon Pryor of SRI International.(11) Neither found any evidence of physical alteration in the brains of monkeys exposed to daily doses of pot for up to a year. Human studies of heavy users in Jamaica and Costa Rica found no evidence of abnormalities in brain physiology.(12) Even though there is no evidence that pot causes permanent brain damage, users should be aware that persistent deficits in short-term memory have been noted in chronic, heavy marijuana smokers after 6 to 12 weeks of abstinence.(13) It is worth noting that other drugs, including alcohol, are known to cause brain damage.The first one — marijuana kills brain cells — is based on research done during the second Reefer Madness Movement. A study attempted to show that marijuana smoking damaged brain structures in monkeys. However, the study was poorly performed and it was severely criticized by a medical review board. Studies done afterwards failed to show any brain damage, in fact a very recent study on Rhesus monkeys used technology so sensitive that scientists could actually see the effect of learning on brain cells, and it found no damage.I really dont hink im in denial because i probably done a lot more reasearch then you. and dont everyone who smokes turns out to be retards.There are plenty of people smoke and do good and get good grades.But there are plenty of people who smoke and dont.same with the people who dont smoke.And thats your kid who smokes pot not everyone ends up like that your jus one sided cause something bad happened to your kid. Most of you who are agaist weed probably never did it before or even know why it was criminlized in the first place

A: Well your wrong weed does much more damage than alcohol, in regard to killing brain cells. Then theres that little thang called a urine test where long term user is bonked out to employers. That takes a month or two of no smoking to clear. My kid is aimlessly staying on a landscaping job so he can smoke. 2 kids, and a pretty gf he won’t marry so he can soak her income. Now all this from a boy who is more than able to attend college or what ever. He is in denial and so are u.