Long term marijuana use has been linked to the way the brain processes reward and can lead to dependence, according to new research. By using an MRI to look at the brains of 53 daily pot users…
9 responses to “Marijuana’s Effects on the Brain’s Pleasure Center Explored”
it's not addicting you want to see addiction do the legal stuff like alcohol and or cigarettes. now that's addiction.
I smoked for a decade every day and I just stopped smoking because I wanted to and never suffer any withdraw or side effects…the only issues I had were trying to put up with the assholes that ran my job..the weed was the only thing that kept me from loosing it with my boss.
Think the reliance on Cannabis for most of their dopamine, for daily smokers for a long time, in the long run could contribute to ED? I mean Erection's basically thrive on dopamine and pot is a big time dopamine trigger. Maybe being inundated daily with unnatural super- rushes of dopamine causes sex and Romance's dopamine prompts to pale in comparison. Anyone heard any studies into this?
Addiction is more like the inability to quit due to chemical and psychological dependance. Try to quit barbiturates and you could die, try to quit weed and you will not feel any discomfort. I guess it is back to the lab's drawing board, this research has not proven it is addictive at all, sorry.
Sure, this might show that chronic smokers's brains love weed more, but I don't see how that makes it addictive. Don't you have to demonstrate that a substance has withdrawal symptoms to call it addictive?
it's not addicting you want to see addiction do the legal stuff like alcohol and or cigarettes. now that's addiction.
If you don't smoke weed you will ended up like this guy,, light it up !!!
Those texans make mind blowing stuff down there
I smoked for a decade every day and I just stopped smoking because I wanted to and never suffer any withdraw or side effects…the only issues I had were trying to put up with the assholes that ran my job..the weed was the only thing that kept me from loosing it with my boss.
Think the reliance on Cannabis for most of their dopamine, for daily smokers for a long time, in the long run could contribute to ED? I mean Erection's basically thrive on dopamine and pot is a big time dopamine trigger. Maybe being inundated daily with unnatural super- rushes of dopamine causes sex and Romance's dopamine prompts to pale in comparison. Anyone heard any studies into this?
I'm hitting one right now…
People that like weed., Smoke weed a lot, and someone got a grant to tell us this? People that like soda. Like soda a lot.
Addiction is more like the inability to quit due to chemical and psychological dependance.
Try to quit barbiturates and you could die, try to quit weed and you will not feel any discomfort.
I guess it is back to the lab's drawing board, this research has not proven it is addictive at all, sorry.
Sure, this might show that chronic smokers's brains love weed more, but I don't see how that makes it addictive. Don't you have to demonstrate that a substance has withdrawal symptoms to call it addictive?