Cannabinoids Induce Brain Cell Growth?

Cannabinoids Induce Brain Cell Growth? 494

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:33AM from the lots-of-happy-people-made-happier dept.

Harlan writes "The Globe and Mail is reporting that researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are claiming that high doses of cannabinoids have induced new brain cell growth in the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory, in rat subjects. There are some interesting potential implications in regards to high doses of cannabinoids found in substances like marijuana."

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YEAH (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:34AM (#13802014)

WEeeeeEEEEEeeeeedddd

This was never really in doubt... (Score:5, Funny)

by gowen ( 141411 ) writes: <gwowen@gmail.com> on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:34AM (#13802015) Homepage Journal

I mean, have you seen the complexity of some of those home-made bongs?
There's some serious brain power gone into engineering those bastards.

Now I can say... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:36AM (#13802020)

...that I am going to the health club when I pop into the local coffeeshop!

Yay! (Score:5, Funny)

by sveskemus ( 833838 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:41AM (#13802028) Homepage

I always suspected... uhm, what were we talking about again?

Ah... (Score:5, Funny)

by iamdrscience ( 541136 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:42AM (#13802036) Homepage

You might grow more brain cells, but all of these new cells will be dedicated to designing more complicated bongs and imagining conspiracies to unravel, so the net functional gain is minimal.

So, what do you want to do tonight, Brain? (Score:5, Funny)

by bsartist ( 550317 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:46AM (#13802049) Homepage

Same thing we do every night, Pinky - get baked and munch out.

Take that parents! (Score:3, Funny)

by iamdrscience ( 541136 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:48AM (#13802055) Homepage

Maybe skipping class to go smoke pot isn't such a waste of time after all...

Great... (Score:5, Funny)

by fragmentate ( 908035 ) * writes: <`jdspilled' `at' `gmail.com'> on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:49AM (#13802062) Journal

Now that my kids have read this we can argue about, "But DAD, Slashdot says!"

Dude! (Score:3, Funny)

by pookemon ( 909195 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:51AM (#13802065) Homepage

It, like, alters your mind! Wohoa!

HU-210 (Score:5, Funny)

by gfody ( 514448 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @04:57AM (#13802073)

The team injected laboratory rats with a synthetic substance called HU-210, which is similar, but 100 times as potent as THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), the compound responsible for giving marijuana users a high.

Clearly my dealer has been lying to me. He swore there was nothing stronger than his stuff. Where do I get HU-210? ..or better yet, how do I make it?

Laws of nature are different in the US (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @05:01AM (#13802086)

US Congress will make sure this is the case. Drugs may not harm the Canadians but they do harm American people.

I don't get it... (Score:5, Funny)

by lightspawn ( 155347 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @05:16AM (#13802129) Homepage

Why are rats attending a hippocampus in the first place?

I think there must be a mistake (Score:4, Funny)

by Brendor ( 208073 ) writes: <brendan.eNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Sunday October 16, 2005 @05:18AM (#13802137) Journal

This article was posted 13 minutes too late.

Man... (Score:5, Funny)

by Auraiken ( 862386 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @05:22AM (#13802151)

If you're just going to talk, pass that over here.

Re:This was never really in doubt... (Score:5, Funny)

by NickABusey ( 642217 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @05:27AM (#13802165) Homepage

Thurgood Jenkins: The MacGyver smoker is a very handy guy to have around, especially when it comes to reefer.
McGayver Friend: Hey, man, we're out of papers.
McGayver Smoker: All right. Then get me a toilet paper roll, a corkscrew and some tin foil.
McGayver Friend: We don't have a corkscrew.
McGayver Smoker: All right. Then get me an avocado, an ice pick and my snorkel.
McGayver Smoker: [Friend looks at him funny] Trust me, bro. I've made bongs with less. Hurry up!

Uh Oh!! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @06:06AM (#13802267)

Seriously was I the only one who saw the headline and thought "cannibal androids had found a way to increase our brain sizes so they have more food!?!?!" before thinking "why would cannibal androids eat humans!?"

Dude (Score:3, Funny)

by commodoresloat ( 172735 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @06:35AM (#13802335)

Will you shut up and pass the twinkies?

Not Tested on Humans (Score:2, Funny)

by obender ( 546976 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @06:37AM (#13802340)

They can cure diabetes in rats, they can grow organs in rats, now they can increase the rat brain. Still it does not mean much to us, none of these works in humans yet. Rats are similar but not identical.
Yeah I know, in Soviet Russia communism was first tested on humans before being tested on rats.

Easy (Score:3, Funny)

by commodoresloat ( 172735 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @06:39AM (#13802349)

they're getting free weed there!

Re:Not Tested on Humans (Score:2, Funny)

by Scarletdown ( 886459 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @06:42AM (#13802359) Journal

Do I dare say it?

I, for one, welcome our new drugged-up hyperintelligent rodent overlords.

Now, all this weed talk is giving me the munchies.

Re:Lots of Research on Cannabinoids in Cannabis (Score:3, Funny)

by Motherfucking Shit ( 636021 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @08:00AM (#13802543) Journal

I operate CANNABIS.COM

I am intrigued by your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re:Brain cells the are limiting factor (Score:3, Funny)

by Admiral Frosty ( 919523 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @08:16AM (#13802597) Homepage

Whada ya mean brains can't be replaced? This man obviusly has not seen those future documentaries known to the public as "Ghost in the Shell".

Re:HU-210 (Score:5, Funny)

by WormholeFiend ( 674934 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @09:30AM (#13802870)

The description of this highly pure form of cannabis deserves an appropriate street name...

Since it's so much more powerful, kinda like crack compared to coke, how about we call it, by analogy:

Crack Pot

George Bush should think upon this.... (Score:5, Funny)

by Khyber ( 864651 ) writes: <techkitsune@gmail.com> on Sunday October 16, 2005 @09:39AM (#13802907) Homepage Journal

This one phrase out to put his mind into action.

Man brewed alcohol, God created marijuana. Who're you going to trust, Mr. President?

Makes sense to me (Score:5, Funny)

by bunratty ( 545641 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @09:53AM (#13802963)

When you have to struggle to remember what you and your bong bud have just been talking about, it makes sense that you'd have to exercise your brain's memory regions. Smoking pot is like walking with leg weights -- it's harder to do when you have them on, but when they come off you're stronger for the extra effort you exerted.

Re:It is still in doubt actually (Score:1, Funny)

by Hal_Porter ( 817932 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @10:08AM (#13803002)

<font size=6><b>They taste the same to me</font></b>

Actually that is more accurate than you realize (Score:5, Funny)

by goombah99 ( 560566 ) writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @11:03AM (#13803296)

Your brain learns both by creating connections and by deleting them. If you create to many new connections you can't thnk straight. Everything gets too connected and you can't resolve your thoughts. You have to prune nodes to be able to think effciently and to focus.

Thus your comment is right on.

Clearly the only solultion is to first smoke loads of weed to build up your brains connecitons, and then huff gasoline to prune them back to a useful level. Then you will be a super genius.

Worked for me.

I knew it (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @11:14AM (#13803357)

ffffffffffffffffffffffffff *cough* *cough* *cough* fffffffffffffffffff *cough*
dude, I so knew that smoking was making me smarter, I mean, like , I've been smokin for years and every time I spark up I have great ideas that like, you know, are, like, cool, you know what I mean. Like that time I came up with that electronic voting system that worked with my television remote, that was like.. coool. Or the time that I figured out how to make breakfast burritos using the toaster. hehe, that was cool, too bad about the toaster though. Dude, quit hoggin the bong, I have to get to work, Steve wants me to come up with yet another version of the ipod. I think this time we will give it.. dude this is soo cool.. get this.. this time we will put a wider screen on it and call it the ipod cinema only get this dude, it won't actually play movies on the wide screen, it will dock with your new apple iTV, and get this.. it will only play back on your personal iTV... hehe, DRM is soo cool, definetly my best idea yet.. anyhow, save me some of that, I gotta come up with some other cool shit when I get home.

Re:This was never really in doubt... (Score:3, Funny)

by lastchance_000 ( 847415 ) * writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @11:31AM (#13803437)

You're not getting enough cannabinoids.

Re:George Bush should think upon this.... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday October 16, 2005 @12:22PM (#13803726)

No, no, you're just misunderstanding George. The truth is that he didn't pay enough attention in Sunday school. All he got out of it was that Jesus was a Jew, and Jesus was God. So naturally, whenever he talks about God, he just means "Jews".

"God wants me to help Israel." "God wants me to invade Iraq." "I wasn't elected, I was appointed by God." "I have a meeting with God this afternoon." "God is a neocon." etc...

Re:George Bush should think upon this.... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 17, 2005 @01:10AM (#13807297)

Man brewed alcohol, God created marijuana. Who're you going to trust, Mr. President?

Bush has trusted both... quite a lot...

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YEAH (Score:0, Funny)

This was never really in doubt... (Score:5, Funny)

Now I can say... (Score:1, Funny)

Yay! (Score:5, Funny)

Ah... (Score:5, Funny)

So, what do you want to do tonight, Brain? (Score:5, Funny)

Take that parents! (Score:3, Funny)

Great... (Score:5, Funny)

Dude! (Score:3, Funny)

HU-210 (Score:5, Funny)

Laws of nature are different in the US (Score:3, Funny)

I don't get it... (Score:5, Funny)

I think there must be a mistake (Score:4, Funny)

Man... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:This was never really in doubt... (Score:5, Funny)

Uh Oh!! (Score:1, Funny)

Dude (Score:3, Funny)

Not Tested on Humans (Score:2, Funny)

Easy (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Not Tested on Humans (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Lots of Research on Cannabinoids in Cannabis (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Brain cells the are limiting factor (Score:3, Funny)

Re:HU-210 (Score:5, Funny)

George Bush should think upon this.... (Score:5, Funny)

Makes sense to me (Score:5, Funny)

Re:It is still in doubt actually (Score:1, Funny)

Actually that is more accurate than you realize (Score:5, Funny)

I knew it (Score:1, Funny)

Re:This was never really in doubt... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:George Bush should think upon this.... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:George Bush should think upon this.... (Score:1, Funny)

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