🚀 go-pugleaf

Don't usually 'top-post' but here's a very interesting, and quite
clinical, article regarding the brain's receptor cites for pot..

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=0008F53F-80F7-119B-80F783414B7F0000

Check it out, really interesting..

"Daniel J. Stern" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Richard Garrity wrote:
> 
> > > Rosenfeld, who is 46, carries a folded letter in his wallet, dated
> > > March 17, 1983, from the Food and Drug Administration, authorizing him
> > > to use a substance that might otherwise bring a Federal prison term of
> > > up to five years.  Most days, he smokes in his car while driving to
> > > work; "I get no euphoric effect," he said.
> 
> > I am sure he does appreciate it! But why is this man allowed to drive
> > his car under the influence of a drug? Isn't that a dangerous game to
> > play?
> 
> Lots of people drive cars under the influence of lots of drugs. Nicotine,
> caffeine, fluoxetine HCl, oxycodone, guarana, bupropion, methylphenidate,
> pseudoephedrine HCl, dextromethorphan...the list goes on and on and on.
> And what's more, different people react differently to these (and other)
> drugs in all the ways relevant to driving.
> 
> It would appear Mr. Rosenfeld drives safely, or we'd've read about it in
> articles like the one quoted, and the War On Drugs types would be making
> an enormous stink about it.
> 
> It's interesting to read scientific, academic studies done on the
> influence of THC (active ingredient in marijuana) upon driving. They don't
> quite conclude what you assume they must. I recommend a stroll (real or
> virtual) through the UMTRI research library sometime...you might learn
> something.
> 
> DS