The following bullshit study was funded by the bullshit Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation in an attempt to further villify the relatively harmless bullshit drug called marijuana while revitalizing the bullshit pharmaceutical industry. These nearly useless academic/ scientific wannabee infowhores failed to compliment on the effects of alcohol because that shit has been documented as far back to when it was re-legalized to keep people happier and dumber then a quick fix fuck, and has proven to be entirely insignificant in the minds of bullshit idiots. Their new study claims that marijuana causes persistant depression and anxiety well after stopping (which has some merit no doubt, but its hardly suprising). The study doesnt seem to adequatley explain how they were able to induce that it was marijauna that causes depression and not the other way around. I realize this was an argument used by the tabacco companies who claimed that cancer (or people predisposed to cancer) caused them to smoke (they really said that in court!!!). However in order to say that X predicts Y, you have to remove all the extraneous variables (Z) to ensure that it was actually X that caused Y and not Z. Thats why you use rats and then extrapolate the findings to human beings!!! The problem with using rats is that it doesnt take into consideration genetic, epigenetic, and social predispositions of human beings. The findings in this study are based on measurements of serotonin and other nuerotransmitter levels within the brain, not the emotional state that is said to charcterize the "disorder" of clinical depression (a total bullshit fabrication).  For example there was no survey conducted on the rats before hand with regards to their diverse life experiences because according to the medical model your experiences equate to no more than the levels of fluids in your brain! All they need to do is treat this imbalance with one of their fucking drugs, that you will get hooked on (likely for life...seriously!)! Its fuckity fuck fucked it is.

Its just as likely that people who are depressed (for reasons ado with their inability to meet the unachievable expectations of our bullshit society) are predisposed in some way to turn to marijuana and other drugs as an escape, and in the process may become more depressed (increasing the chemical imbalance). Its impossible to say someone who smoked marijuana as a teenager is going to be more depressed (on average) in adulthood, for the simple fact that the depression (childhood experiences) may have PRECEEDED the usage of the drug. They simply want to villify this drug in any way they can, because they know its less harmful than wifi, only more profitable, but only if illegal...

And really, what is better, a society of overconfident self-serving drunks killing and fighting with one another, or a bunch of people who as "psychologists" have shown are accurately perceiving reality (i.e. depression) who are not deluding themselves with the self-destructive optimism that characterizes the western psyche. This too has been quasi-scientifically demonstrated, but nonetheless (and humorously) this demonstrates that THEY ARE ULTIMATELY SAYING THAT MARIJUANA MAKES YOU SEE THINGS REALISTICALLY!!! REALITY IS DEPRESSING IF YOU ARE INDOCTRINATED WITH A NARROW BULLSHIT BELIEF SYSTEM!!!

Mind you... if we are trying to villify a drug that can be grown for free by anyone... we better show how it may "alter your brain chemistry" indefinitely to give creedance to the bullshit laws in which we have fooled you drunken complacent halfwit degenerate fuck ups with for decades. And even if it did is that really a huge issue? Is not the hundred thousand+ deaths from alcohol every year more important? Nope. Not to us. We are too busy to demand that we do sensible things, while complaining about how fucking sad we are and how tough it is to live a life of wasted priviledge. Waa Waa Waa suck it up. Imagine Palestinian kids minds!!! IMAGINE!!!

Fuck your bullshit problems.

Sobriety and serenity are things to aspire too, and far more rewarding then artificially induced and short lived happiness brought with drug use, but contemporary drug laws can only be considered reasonable by people who are a downright drag on our species. Fuck them. Seriously. Why the fuck do I bother.

ARTICLE FROM CBC
Regular marijuana use takes a worse toll on the teenage brain than thought, say researchers in Montreal who studied the effects of cannabis in rats.

The findings suggest daily marijuana use by teens can cause depression and anxiety, and have an irreversible effect on the brain.

The study, which was published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease, looked at 18 adolescent and adult rats that were exposed to cannabis.

Those given the drug had decreased levels of serotonin, which affects mood.

The animals also showed higher levels of norepinephrine that can increase susceptibility to long-term stress, said Dr. Gabriella Gobbi, a psychiatric researcher from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.

"These permanent changes in the brain are also linked to certain mental illnesses, like schizophrenia," Gobbi said Thursday.

"And we showed that even if we stopped the cannabis use at the end of adolescence, the changes were still detectable in adulthood."

Previous population studies have looked at how smoking marijuana can affect behavior in some teenagers. But Gobbi said this was one of the first to focus on how the drug affects depression and anxiety in adolescence compared with adulthood.

The researchers also plan to observe a group of young human marijuana smokers to investigate the idea further.

The study was funded by a grant from The Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation.