Long-term marijuana use changes brain's reward circuit


So. Now, let's just be clear here. You're comparing the indicators for dependence between weed and a banana? I think even the most ardent of pot heads will give you that one, Einstein. File that shit somewhere super important. But, I'm not even sure that's it. It sounds like at some point they were showing pictures of fruit to nonusers with brain injuries, and then rating their urge to smoke weed. "How about this cantaloupe. Nice, huh? On a scale of 1 to 10, how high do you want to get right now?"

The last sentence of that story is brilliant. "Police may never know what the birthday cake looked like." That cake may as well be Atlantis.

What that implies to me is that if given choice A (marijuana-related) or choice B (non-marijuana-related), users are going to increasingly opt for A because their brain is telling them that this is the more valued reward. That pot use will after time reinforce itself. Should I smoke pot, or go out with my friends? I think I'll smoke pot. Should I do a bong, or look after my kids? I'll do the bong. Smoking cues start to mean more.


The cues are triggering them to want to seek out the "reward." Maybe their body isn't craving it, but their brain is steered that way.

Yeah, I understand the gist of the method, but again, I'm just not sure if we need to test those indicators against the baseline of a banana. Everyone on the planet is probably already willing to give you that one. It may have also concluded that the more you show a stoner a picture of a bong/weed, or suggest marijuana to him, that his urge for marijuana will progressively rise each time...but again: duh?

I'm certain that the study would have the same results if you replaced marijuana with candy, cigarettes, alcohol, nudity, coffee, firearms, high-sodium processed foods, and probably popular retail goods, which doesn't do anything to question or dismiss it's validity, but it does seem a few paces behind plain common sense.

I would guess they are trying to study the argument "pot isn't addictive." And it may be true that addiction is rare in a physical sense (as opposed to nicotine, alcohol), but like the other examples you point out, addiction can be mental. That may seem obvious, but things are studied to actually test common beliefs (which could well be wrong).

Yeah, good point. I guess marijuana advocates could even take it as a good sign if the fed's compass has moved to "it's more addictive than fruit" rather than "it drives the negro men sex mad!"

From another site: "...maybe smoking weed just makes me hate fruit?" I larfed.

Vladimir Putin arrested at Publix

"Should we all be including sperm in our diets?"

Gonna say no.

What the fucking fuck... strange, sad and this woman should be put up against a wall and shot

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/25/health...ent/index.html

What a shitty mom, doing that kind of crap.

Police in Canada have a new punishment for suspected drunk drivers: Listening to Nickelback

I guess Canadia doesn't have the equivalent of the 8th Amendment?

Open defecation is bad for individuals' and society's health. It has been responsible for spread of several diseases and in many cases, crimes against women.


Ummm. I can't figure out if that's meant to imply that a woman will get a beating for shitting in the street, or seeing a woman taking a shit in the street sends Indian men into a rapey lust. I'm assuming both.

Rape, Child Molestation Allegations Would Require Outside Corroboration Under Ridiculous New Hampshire Bill - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Seems like a solid idea.

Already we have a candidate for lede of the year:


https://apnews.com/b26268d1b1714de38...=APSouthRegion

Whoa whoa whoa whoa!!!

I grew up in Columbus. Victory Drive put the "seed" in "seedy."

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/stlou...wFullText=true

How one 31-year-old paid off $220000 in student loans in 3 years



"If I can have my mother give me a job and condo while my grandparents let me live with them rent free then anybody can do it!"

That is precisely the example that I would give in trying to explain privilege to someone. I mean, look at all she accomplished and how hard she worked versus someone who had to pay rent, work 2 jobs, and take public transportation to try get ahead. It's not even close.

Someone once asked me why should I considered privileged because I've worked hard to get where I am? I explained that if my parents hadn't have laid it out there and supported me when I needed it I never could have. I'd have failed simply because I would've missed too many opportunities.

How in the bloody blue HELL have I never seen this before it was texted to me a few minutes ago????

Leprechaun News Report - YouTube

I joyously remember this video, and then immediately forget about it, every St. Patty's day. It has so many layers. "I want the gold, give ME the gold!"

Sharknado!

Cyclone Debbie dumps bull shark in middle of Queensland road

I'm probably not the only person who IMMEDIATELY thought of this place when I first saw that

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.3159660

New Jersey man high on PCP busted after he stops car in the middle of the Lincoln Tunnel to masturbate

That's a headline that your mood progressively worsens as you go left to right reading it.

Do they really have to have a picture of a pig drooling?

Severed human cocktail toe stolen from Yukon hotel pub - BBC News

It's a cattoestraphy

Bill Cosby to Teach Young People How to Avoid Sexual Assault Charges

Not the Onion.

Man gets run over by bus, gets up, dusts himself off, carries on into bar

CCTV footage shows man hit by bus in Reading - BBC News

That could have ended really badly. He did the best thing and ride the momentum up off the ground; if his feet stuck on the ground it would have been game over.

My favorite part of this is that their apology includes giving all 10 women an internship. Workplace morale is at an all-time high...

And as is typical for the Daily Mail, they're all "Check out this horrible sexist, misogynistic shit, they were just judging the women on their looks! And also here's all 10 of those bikini pictures in as large a size as we could find."

Minnesota woman charged with killing boyfriend in video stunt - StarTribune.com

WHAT WEBSITE THOUGH - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia from Anthony Matan on Vimeo.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/good-samar...opstories.html

I think if i was the good Samaritan, i'd be all over pressing charges after they went out of their way to continue to smear him. Random punch i could get over and understand, further smearing i cannot.

Nevada's governor has joined college potheads in declaring a state of emergency over a lack of marijuana.

Nevada running out of weed, ‘state of emergency’ declared | fox13now.com

Harkens me back to my journalistic peak. Covering Snowball-the-killer-goat
Canton’s ‘killer goat’ | Canton Rewind

If you Google today, you'll find this story from 1991 popping up in the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel among other places.

I'm the guy who wrote the original story, both locally & for AP, (and then made sure to tip the local Cox Media TV affiliate that we had a working relationship with, who quickly helped it go national). It was mentioned on Paul Harvey, and I ended up being interviewed by newstalkers in Memphis & New Orleans.

Good times man, good times.

I guess they never got his goat.

Eel truck overturns on highway, covers road in slime

That's nasty.

Workers will try to remove strange object off Westerly beach

It begins.

Or not. Looks like the alien overlords had other ideas.

Removal of mystery object off Westerly beach canceled | WPRI 12 Eyewitness News

I shouldn't laugh. And yet I laugh.

How does that even come up in conversation?

Really would have been wise to stay quiet and take the risk with rabies there.

Reminded of this by the story.

Look at Mr. bigshot over here who aint never though bout fuckin a donkey.

you can catch rabies that way!


*runs to doctor*

"... but let a man fuck just ONE donkey ..."

At least the 14th or 15th kid in that train should've questioned their choice in friends.

Not so much a strange new story, but one for JiMGA to reminisce over. From my local rag, this is a great example, rarely seen nowadays, of a proper local newspaper story. Poor Dan Cooper must be thinking 'I went to college for this...'

Woman reunited with missing cat after 11 months - Newbury Weekly News

And the photo made me laugh - the lady looks distincly happier than the cat!

What. On. Earth.

Both Zoo Atlanta and Noah's Ark have accounted for their's, so a private owner (whether legally or illegally) is high on the of suspects, with one escaping while being transported being the only other notion in play.

But can you imagine the phone calls and conversations leading up to this?
It had to sound a little bit like "I need a bambi-lance"

Man. Just did some more reading on this. They killed it not long before kids would be headed to the bus stops. Crazy!

Denver nurses suspended for opening bag to admire deceased patient's genitals | The Sacramento Bee

Kinda almost makes up for the being dead thing.

Remember when Yoda signed the United Nations charter back in 1945 with Faisal of Saudi, @starwars? Saudi Ministry of Education does! pic.twitter.com/T62mwtZppr

— SilentRuins (@SilentRuins) September 21, 2017

Oh! And this one time... at band camp...

Semen-contaminated flutes might have been given to children, California school officials warn

Damn, just got here to post the same story, Shkspr... terrible but definitely weird AF

I bet people enjoyed the chicken before they found out it was outsourced.

A little bit spooky.

When you die you know you are dead: Major study shows mind still works after the body shows no signs of life | The Independent

Chunks of a Portland Man's Exploded Hand Struck a Federal Officer. He's Charged With Assault. - Blogtown - Portland Mercury

"When law enforcement finally stopped him, the document says, Schaefer held out a "cigarette pack and a lit lighter" and told officers "we're all fucking dying today." He then lit the cigarette packet, blowing a number of fingers off of his left hand and causing glass to "fly into the air."

So this tweet has basically resulted in the most social media thing ever:

roy‏
@Old_Orleans
This professor graded tests next to me the whole flight. If there’s a Taiwan Jones at Howard, boy you failed the fuck out ya midterm



Now, everyone claiming to be Taiwan Jones is coming out of the woodwork to grab their claim to fame for being a failure, lol!

Hey, if it's good enough for Kenji Alt-Lopez...

I have a friend who's a super foodie. Kind of guy who has $1,000s of dollars of kitchen equipment and plans his vacations around food. And he says that he cannot find any better fried chicken than fresh Popeyes.

If you burn, shred, ingest, or otherwise ruin money, you can send it in to the Mutilated Currency Division of the Treasury Department and they'll fix it and send you replacement money.

Episode 781: The Money Fixers : Planet Money : NPR

The news story itself is not strange, and indeed must have been a terrible experience at the time and in the years since for the woman, but I have to admit I did laugh out loud at quite possibly the most English sentence I think I have ever read or heard.

Labour activist 'warned' about pursuing rape claim - BBC News

I could never be a Nazi, their favorite kind of pizza is white pizza

Safe haven baby box

Marine drill instructor gets 10 years for abusing recruits

Isn't that HALF of Full Metal Jacket?

lol wtf! you win this thread hahahahaha