This was a great video up until the last 30 seconds where the intentional drug war propaganda was inserted.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA):
[Marijuana use can have far reaching consequences in the user’s brain. THC can activate cannabinoid receptors found throughout the brain, altering healthy communication within the brain and with the rest of the body; this can affect motions, movement, learning, memory and decision making. Using marijuana frequently, especially during adolescence over stimulates the reward system and can change the brain’s actual wiring. Such use can lead to addiction and other mental health illnesses, and even lower a person’s IQ.]
The drug war propaganda in this video is strategically concealed in semantics. I’ll just point out a few examples of what I’m talking about.
1. “THC can activate cannabinoid receptors found throughout the brain, altering healthy communication within the brain and with the rest of the body”.
The use of the word “healthy” in this video insinuates that normal neural activity is always good, and that any sort of deviation from that norm is unhealthy. If you believe that any sort of mind altering effects are unhealthy, then by this logic you surly must also agree that meditation, long distance running, and sex are also unhealthy…. Yes that statement quickly becomes absurd when you dissolve NIDA’s semantical inserts.
2. “Using marijuana frequently, especially during adolescence over stimulates the reward system and can change the brain’s actual wiring. “
The phrase “over stimulates” insinuates that any increase in the production of dopamine is a bad thing. The reality is that each brain is uniquely wired, some produce too little dopamine, some too much. To assume that any increase in dopamine is unhealthy, is just flat out incorrect and purposely misleading.
According to Mental Health Daily:
“Heightened levels of dopamine are associated with improvements in cognitive function such as memory, learning, and problem solving.”
“High dopamine in certain areas of the brain may enhance our ability to learn new things. Those with deficient dopamine have a difficult time sustaining motivation to put forth sustained effort to learn something new. Those with low dopamine may experience learning deficits because they remain unmotivated.”
“Higher levels of dopamine may be involved in cognitive organization or allowing us to organize our thoughts. Those that have a difficult time organizing thoughts or staying productive are thought to have lower levels of dopamine. If you have an easy time organizing your thoughts and verbalizing these thoughts, you may have elevated dopamine.”
“Those that are highly motivated tend to implement systems that increase their productivity. Since there is a dopaminergic reward associated with getting more work done (e.g. money, fame, success), those with high dopamine may be more productive than average. Those that are lazy, unmotivated, and underproductive may need to elevate their dopamine levels.”
NIDA was correct about marijuana being able to change the brain’s wiring… but so does learning how to juggle, dating a new person, buying a new car, or doing anything new…. Neuroplasticity and neurogenesis is a good thing! For people suffering from PTSD, this re-hardwiring of the brain is exactly what they want to have happen to return back to good mental health standards.
3. “Such use can lead to addiction and other mental health illnesses, and even lower a person’s IQ.”
You know what else can lead to addiction and other mental health illnesses, and even lower a person’s IQ?
1. Watching Television
2. Playing video games
3. Prescription Antidepressants
4. Fanatical Religiosity
5. Incarceration
6. Body Building
7. Bulimia nervosa
8. Porn
9. Sugar
10. Etc…
The public deserves more factual reporting and less intentional drug war propaganda from taxpayer funded “scientific” institutes. Many people have benefited greatly from using medical cannabis, and NIDA is upset by that fact. I don’t disagree that for some people, especially children, cannabis usage can become harmful, but for others, it may be a lifesaving medicine.
By the way, NIDA receives a Billion dollars a year in taxpayer funding. Source: https://www.drugabuse.gov/about-nida/legislative-activities/budget-information/fiscal-year-2017-budget-information-congressional-justification-national-institute-drug-abuse
In honor of NIDA, here are 100 scientific studies into the medical uses of cannabis:
Cannabis kills tumor cells
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1576089
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20090845
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/616322
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14640910
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19480992
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15275820
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15638794
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16818650
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17952650
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20307616
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16616335
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16624285
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10700234
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17675107
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14617682
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17342320
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16893424
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15026328
Uterine, testicular, and pancreatic cancers
http://www.cancer.gov/…/c…/cannabis/healthprofessional/page4
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20925645
Brain cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11479216
Mouth and throat cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20516734
Breast cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18454173
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16728591
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9653194
Lung cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25069049
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22198381?dopt=Abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21097714?dopt=Abstract
Prostate cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12746841?dopt=Abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3339795/…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22594963
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15753356
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10570948
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19690545
Blood cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12091357
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16908594
Skin cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12511587
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19608284
Liver cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475304
Cannabis cancer cures (general)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12514108
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15313899
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20053780
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18199524
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19589225
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12182964
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19442435
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12723496
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16250836
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17237277
Cholangiocarcinoma cancer
http://ww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19916793
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21115947
Leukemia
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15454482
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16139274
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14692532
Cannabis partially/fully induced cancer cell death
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12130702
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19457575
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18615640
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17931597
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18438336
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19916793
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18387516
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15453094
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19229996
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9771884
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18339876
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12133838
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16596790
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11269508
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15958274
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19425170
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17202146
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11903061
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15451022
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20336665
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19394652
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11106791
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19189659
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500647
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19539619
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19059457
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16909207
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18088200
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10913156
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18354058
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19189054
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17934890
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16571653
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19889794
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15361550
Translocation-positive rhabdomyosarcoma
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19509271
Lymphoma
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18546271
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16936228
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16337199
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19609004
Cannabis kills cancer cells
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16818634
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12648025
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17952650
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16835997
Melanoma
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17065222
Thyroid carcinoma
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18197164
Colon cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18938775
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19047095
Intestinal inflammation and cancer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19442536
Cannabis inhibits cancer cell invasion
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19914218
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· “This product has intoxicating effects and may be habit forming.”;
· “Marijuana can impair concentration, coordination, and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug.”;
· “There may be health risks associated with consumption of this product.”; and
· “For use only by adults twenty-one and older. Keep out of the reach of children.”
