Smoking weed and training/cutting

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Marijuana Good for the Arteries
By James Joyner

A Geneva University study shows that THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, helps prevent coronary artery disease in mice. This is good news for dope smoking mice, indeed.

Cannabis Compound Slows Artery Disease in Mice (Reuters)

An active ingredient in cannabis can ease inflammation and slow the progression of coronary artery disease in mice, and possibly humans, researchers said on Wednesday. Daily low doses of the ingredient, THC, prevented atherosclerosis, a primary cause of heart disease and stroke in western countries, without producing the associated high. “We have proven that very low doses of cannabis therapy will have an anti-inflammatory effect that will slow the progression of atherosclerosis in mice,” said Dr Francois Mach, of Geneva University Hospital in Switzerland.

 

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Marijuana: interaction with the estrogen receptor

MA Sauer, SM Rifka, RL Hawks, GB Cutler and DL Loriaux

Crude marijuana extract competed with estradiol for binding to the estrogen receptor of rat uterine cytosol. Condensed marijuana smoke also competed with estradiol for its receptor. Pure delta 9- tetrahydrocannabinol, however, did not interact with the estrogen receptor. Ten delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol metabolites also failed to compete with estradiol for its receptor. Of several other common cannabinoids tested, only cannabidiol showed any estrogen receptor binding. This was evident only at very high concentrations of cannabidiol. Apigenin, the aglycone of a flavinoid phytoestrogen found in cannabis, displayed high affinity for the estrogen receptor. To assess the biological significance of these receptor data, estrogen activity was measured in vivo with the uterine growth bioassay, using immature rats. Cannabis extract in large doses exhibited neither estrogenic nor antiestrogenic effects. Thus, although estrogen receptor binding activity was observed in crude marijuana extract, marijuana smoke condensate and several known components of cannabis, direct estrogenic activity of cannabis extract could not be demonstrated in vivo.

 

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Cannabis Improves Night Vision, Study Says
Missoula, MT: Administration of cannabis improves night vision in a dose-dependent manner, according to the findings of a case study to be published in the July issue of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.

Researchers administered oral THC to one individual; analogous field studies were performed on three separate subjects before and after smoking cannabis. All four subjects were field-tested for night vision with a Scotopic Sensitivity Tester-1. "In both test situations, improvements in night vision measures were noted after THC or cannabis," authors found.

"The current study supports the previous ethnobotanical observations that cannabis may improve night vision," they concluded. "This effect seems to be dose-dependent and cannabinoid-mediated. Further study may reveal whether this clinical application of cannabis could be added to treatment of pain, spasticity of multiple sclerosis, and nausea of chemotherapy as recognized indications for this ancient substance."

For more information, please contact Allen St. Pierre or Paul Armentano of the NORML Foundation at (202) 483-5500. Abstracts of the study are available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03788741

 

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[Serum testosterone concentrations in cannabis and opiate users]

[Article in German]

Friedrich G, Nepita W, Andre T.

Institut fur Rechtsmedizin, Universitat Freiburg.

The object of this study was to establish possible influences of long-term cannabis usage on plasma testosterone levels. The plasma testosterone levels of 66 male Pakistani who for years had smoked cannabis daily or drank cannabis regularly where measured after chronic and acute intake of the drug and compared with a material of 41 normal controls, i.e. persons who did not use cannabis. An evaluation of the results showed that there were no significant differences between the two groups. No influence of long-term cannabis usage on plasma testosterone levels was found. Furthermore we wished to find out wether long-term heroin abuse showed an effect on plasma testosterone levels. The concentrations of testosterone in the plasma of 102 heroin addicts assigned to a Methadone Program were measured and compared with the values of 29 male healthy students as controls. Plasma testosterone levels were found to be significantly decreased in heroin addicts as compared to controls.

PMID: 2241844 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

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Drug

Annual Deaths

Drug

Annual Deaths

Drug

Annual Deaths
Tobacco
100,000
Methadone
97
Amphetamines
12
Alcohol
6,000
Ecstasy
25
Cocaine
11
Heroin
652
Crack
20
Marijuana
0

 

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THOSE are some studies i can find quickly, i have the article on where it proves that weed has no eeffect on estrogen

i also have another study proving that weed does NOT cause lung caner.

to all his own, now would i be bigger w/o weed? Probably just a little, BUT WOULD I EAT AS MUCH WHILE BULKING? probbably not

Jkurz, depending on who u want to listen to, if you can find me a study that was done on HUMANS, not mice, that can prove
1. Weed rasies estrogen levels
2. Weed raises cortisol
3. Weed lowers testosterone

and ill show u a study that proves the opposite, its all about who payed for the testing/study.

Like i said to each thier own/moderation, but out of curiosity Jkurz have u ever been a chronic smoker then quit, and got better gains in the GYM? If so then ill believe YOU way more then any study.

my .02

Thaks jkurz, nice points too!

 

[JKurz1]

Hey bro..Im not gonna get into a pissing contest....I truly could care less....Ive tried it here and there to get my appetite up and it's only made me tired...then I end up waking up every hoour.....just not for me....actually, I just smoked a few days again cause I needed some cals in, but it had the opposite effect...dextropse works much better

So, do what you want. Hell, if it works for you, go for it......I use vicodine every few days to help with back pain and soreness, and I'm pretty sure I'm addicted....even though I take MAYBE 1 tab every few days, its under control, but still there....with me?

 

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Hey bro..Im not gonna get into a pissing contest....I truly could care less....Ive tried it here and there to get my appetite up and it's only made me tired...then I end up waking up every hoour.....just not for me....actually, I just smoked a few days again cause I needed some cals in, but it had the opposite effect...dextropse works much better

So, do what you want. Hell, if it works for you, go for it......I use vicodine every few days to help with back pain and soreness, and I'm pretty sure I'm addicted....even though I take MAYBE 1 tab every few days, its under control, but still there....with me?

hey no pissing contest, i like debates =], might learn something new i didnt know.

Now hey, u tried it so i cant knock u and tell u "your wrong mofo". Its crazy i know alot of good people that weed kills thier appetite too, so it really looks like no benefit for you.

DEF know im addicted to BUD, but not addicted to where i cant stop, i just dont want to right now. Ive kicked bud plenty of times in the past where i needed to be clean and what not but when those plans fell through i started smokin again. Ill def quit in time, im only 20 right now, so i have time to learn from my mistakes. Ill def slow my weed consuption as i get older. And if i want to ill kick it.

I know what u mean tho Jkurz, it was a good debate. I just wanted to get the point accrss that if u have a study for one thing, theres always something to disprove that, it sucks because it leaves us to try for ourselves lol

 

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hey no pissing contest, i like debates =], might learn something new i didnt know.

Now hey, u tried it so i cant knock u and tell u "your wrong mofo". Its crazy i know alot of good people that weed kills thier appetite too, so it really looks like no benefit for you.

DEF know im addicted to BUD, but not addicted to where i cant stop, i just dont want to right now. Ive kicked bud plenty of times in the past where i needed to be clean and what not but when those plans fell through i started smokin again. Ill def quit in time, im only 20 right now, so i have time to learn from my mistakes. Ill def slow my weed consuption as i get older. And if i want to ill kick it.

I know what u mean tho Jkurz, it was a good debate. I just wanted to get the point accrss that if u have a study for one thing, theres always something to disprove that, it sucks because it leaves us to try for ourselves lol

Just wanted to say I KNEW I'd find you in here after seeing the title of this thread ... lol

 

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Just wanted to say I KNEW I'd find you in here after seeing the title of this thread ... lol

lmao, something dont change huh bunns lol

im actually quite interested to see the answers from people who chronically smoked during BB. and then stoped, and see if thier answers would shed a possitive/negative ligght on weed.

u know i love you bunz! lol and one day i will quit for you! =]