A-do-a-do-a-drug-dealer?!

10-20-05 - A morning show host does a double-take when SAFER's Mason Tvert refers to brewpub-owning Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper as a drug dealer who sells a more dangerous drug than marijuana.

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[RastabansPrincess]

dude shut the fuck up. Weed only makes you high because there are receptors in your brain that process it. humans have been consuming cannabis for over 7,000 years. EVERYTHING KILLS BRAINCELLS SO WHO GIVES A SHIT!!!! Omg. smoking, drinking, spinning in circles, bumping your head, getting hit in the face with something, holding your breath, being around a camp fire, painting your house, hair spray, most of all - actually believing the US government.. thats bad

[Nevrosert]

i love how the media just 'stops it right there' when they hear something criticizing their government..

[kingghidorah3heads]

Thats right, he is a DRUG dealer! He has vested interests in production of beer (alcohol) which kills more people and causes untold misery for millions of people and does far more physical and mental damage to the human body than marijuana.

a good read: Marijuana is safer : so why are we driving people to drink? / by Steve Fox, Paul Armentano, Mason Tvert

[youaremyoffspring]

We should legalize jelly beans!

[birdystyle420]

smoke weed every day

[valdezskier]

@RastabansPrincess it doesn't even kill brain cells the reason studies use to show that is because tests were done on monkeys for a long period of time, and they would hook them up to machines that supplied the marijuana smoke at huge quantities at 4 minutes at a time... it literally caused asphyxiation to the monkeys because it had lasted for so long. After doing this study for years (the monkeys not even lasting years) they would die and get brain damage due to lack of oxygen to the brain.

[CNSagent]

@RastabansPrincess ... and voluntary wheel running depended on the presence of the CB1 receptor. Along the same line, (7) voluntary wheel running increased CB1 receptor mRNA in the hippocampus. We observed that (8) in the absence of CB1 receptors, cell proliferation was increased and neuronal differentiation reduced."- Cannabinoid receptor CB1 mediates baseline and activity-induced survival of new neurons in adult hippocampal neurogenesis/ Cell Communication and Signaling/ PMCID: PMC2898685

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[CNSagent]

@RastabansPrincess ... and adult neurogenesis. (2) CBD did not impair learning but increased adult neurogenesis despite (3) a CBD-induced reduction in cell proliferation. We found (4) the pro-neurogenic effect of CBD to be dependent on the CB1 receptor, which (5) shows a widespread expression over the entire dentate gyrus, including the neuronal precursor cells. Similarly, (6) the pro-neurogenic effect of environmental enrichment...

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[CNSagent]

@RastabansPrincess ... the effects of cannabinoid on anxiety and depression."- Cannabinoids promote embryonic and adult hippocampus neurogenesis and produce anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects/ The Journal of clinical Investigation 2005/PMCID: PMC1253627

Although, the effects of cannabinoids on neurogenesis can be biphasic, and even contradictory.

"In this study we have shown that (1) exogenous cannabinoids THC and CBD differ in their effects on spatial learning...

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[CNSagent]

@RastabansPrincess ... following chronic administration. Increased hippocampal neurogenesis appears to underlie the mechanism of anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects produced by a high dose of chronic HU210 treatment. The opposing effects of high doses of acute and chronic cannabinoids, together with the anxiolytic-like effects caused by a low dose of cannabinoids, may finally explain discrepancies in the clinical study literature regarding...

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[CNSagent]

@RastabansPrincess "Natural selection has conserved cannabinoid receptors in various vertebrates and invertebrates that have been evolutionarily separate for 500 million years, indicating the importance of cannabinoid receptors to life... In summary, since adult hippocampal neurogenesis is suppressed following chronic administration of opiates, alcohol, nicotine, and cocaine, the present study suggests that cannabinoids are the only illicit drug that can promote adult hippocampal neurogenesis...

[david0861513636]

@RastabansPrincess marijuana actually doesn't kill brain cells,alcohol and nicotine do.no anti drug site will say "marijuana kills brain cells" they will either point out a "possible link"(because it has never,dare i say never will,be proven to kill brain cells) or mention it effects memory WHEN you're high.drinkers don't slur their words a week later,the same applies to cannabis