Reverse THC/Cannabis Damage

[smith]

How would one start reversing the cognitive decline/damage from chronic THC exposure? As many a regretful forum user goes, "Weed made me slightly retarded, such that I actually have to read some sentences twice to comprehend them fully."

 

[biggirlkisss]

do the work.. diet red light, baking soda baths, dry ice baths maybe i have to try. tweak your ratios eat as often as possible.

 

[Herbie]

Pull down the Bob Marly and Hunter S Thompson posters, get a digital watch and use 24 hour time to escape 4:20pm, do the last harvest, dry and cure, sell it all off, sell the grow op on eBay, Place the bong down on some public monument where it can horrify all the prudes so some hero can dispose of it, get a new phone number so the go green brigade cannot seduce you into another 'sesh', realise that part of your life will be just a blur in your memory, realise that stones are rocks that lay dormant on the earths surface, read books, visit interesting places, drink coffee, use progesterone, cyproheptadine/metergerline, aspirin, eat well, maybe tobacco (controversial/health risk).

Watch 'customgrow420' on youtube to remind yourself why you stopped.

 

[TreasureVibe]

In my country, alot of weed retailers spray their weed with deodorant to give it a stronger smell. Deodorant is full of aluminum. I think it's a trick used all around the world where weed is sold. So to detox aluminum, which accumulates in the brain, you should use L-malic acid.

 

[Waynish]

Strange thread.

 

[biggirlkisss]

some also spray with lysole to give it a more quality bud like look gross.

 

[Hazarlar]

Are you sure it is weed per se, that does the damage. I have been smoking for 15 years (since 19) and I think most of the damage is done by overeating crap food (PUFA rich pizza and french fries and XXL burger and chips) and by watching porn and over-masturbation.

Though there was a period when I smoked using aluminium-baking-paper or via beer can and this seemed to be bad for the brain. So it might be aluminium. Frequency is also what matters. I don't smoke every day nor every week.

 

[Thoushant]

convergence insufficiency.

Do some exercise, focus on a finger up close, then distance and repeat. move the finger around.
and make sure you are "slightly crosseyed" when reading ie your eyes should feel actively focusing.
I think it's a habit that can be forgotten, I've improved, and it scaled to goal setting. Before reading, and while reading always looking for something, use a highlighter, engages you in the material

Simple roadside tests can identify pot-impaired drivers, study shows
http://upc.utah.gov/materials/2016umpa/Cannabis_Impairment_Quick_Assessment_Pocket_Card.pdf

 

[smith]

Are you sure it is weed per se, that does the damage

Yes.

most of the damage is done by overeating PUFA rich pizza and french fries and XXL burger and chips / watching porn and over-masturbation / using aluminium-baking-paper or via beer can. So it might be aluminium

I've never really engaged in any self-destructive behavior that would contribute to cognitive decline to a significant degree, and not more than always being high from chronic exposure to that chronic. But these are good points, aluminum does have its contributions to semi-retardation, much more so than fast food.
That's good you don't smoke every week, I on the other hand used to smoke every day.

alot of weed retailers spray their weed with deodorant to give it a stronger smell. Deodorant is full of aluminum.

Yea, I can tell when it's been "cured" in chemicals, just not sure what kinds. Been taking magnesium malate for a while, I think this helps. I'll take your advice and try the malic acid.

Strange thread.

How so? Wanna add some reasoning to that instead of taking up space with a useless comment?

convergence insufficiency.

Do some exercise, focus on a finger up close, then distance and repeat. move the finger around.
and make sure you are "slightly crosseyed" when reading ie your eyes should feel actively focusing.
I think it's a habit that can be forgotten, I've improved, and it scaled to goal setting. Before reading, and while reading always looking for something, use a highlighter, engages you in the material

Simple roadside tests can identify pot-impaired drivers, study shows
http://upc.utah.gov/materials/2016umpa/Cannabis_Impairment_Quick_Assessment_Pocket_Card.pdf

Thanks, this is interesting, will definitely try this.
Haven't smoked in a year but still I'm basically permastoned. This weed thing re-wired something in the brain to cause a sort of constant high depersonalization or something, I guess. So I don't really think it's the PUFAs or aluminum that are entirely at fault.

 

[Such_Saturation]

But what if, hear me out, what if we tested our aluminium levels first before making conclusions?

 

[SOMO]

Cannabis does not cause brain damage. Cannabis has not been shown to be neurotoxic in the same way that something like methamphetamine has.

Cannabis helps relax people, but it can often be a crutch. If you're relying on a drug to relax or spark creativity, it's possible a defect or deficiency in character exists elsewhere.

The stereotype of the couchlocked lazy stoner isn't just a stereotype, but partly because chronic pot smoking can become a ritual behavior, like obsessively washing hands. The more someone trains that part of their brain habitually, they are more likely to repeat the behavior.

Also CBD/THC/Endocannabinoid receptors can be "full", from what I understand. That is, consuming higher and higher doses of THC/CBD has diminishing returns and there is a point at which the person won't get any more high/medicated. Psychosis occurs at extremely high doses of THC, but it usually only occurs with dabbing. Chronic or casual pot smoking is unlikely to lead to schizophrenia or psychosis or neurotoxicity.

Why give neurotoxicity the credit when laziness explains just as much in this situation?

 

[smith]

Why give neurotoxicity the credit when laziness explains just as much in this situation?

So, you're saying that laziness is enough to cause someone to lose their ability to comprehend sentences they read? Damn son

Oh, you didn't even address my post, you just wrote a bunch of things generally about weed like you're trying to be a wiki page and arguing whether or not weed causes neurotoxicity like other hard drugs. Your reply is just filler and distraction leading to side issues completely irrelevant to the real subject, without even asking me anything about my personal experience. Nice. Take your intellectual authority pollution elsewhere, I'm good.

but i'm borderline retarded so i could just be interpreting you wrong. You seem ultra knowledgeable cuz you can fill up a post with random, textbook-regurgitated information that actually has nothing to do with the OP. Let me know how I did thx

 

[x-ray peat]

Marijuana has been clinically shown to **** up your brain. After all it only makes sense that a drug that dramatically increases dopamine levels in the brain is going to have some lasting effect if used long term. Come to think of it its kind of like porn which most would agree also ***** up your brain.

 

[smith]

Marijuana has been clinically shown to **** up your brain. After all it only makes sense that a drug that dramatically increases dopamine levels in the brain is going to have some lasting effect if used long term. Come to think of it its kind of like porn which most would agree also ***** up your brain.

Yep, I'm still experiencing the same weed-high like depersonalization and intellectual/emotional dulling after a year but because I don't have any studies to back up my claims, I'm either uninformed or a liar lol. (or just a lazy dumbass, which is probably the case)

I guess I should just blame it all on laziness because we certainly can't trust our own faculties let alone believe in our own experiences and should only rely on the scientific studies done by other people that are currently available for us to read on the internet to conclude anything

 

[x-ray peat]

Yep, I'm still experiencing the same weed-high like depersonalization and intellectual/emotional dulling after a year but because I don't have any studies to back up my claims, I'm either uninformed or a liar lol.

I guess I should just blame it all on laziness because we certainly can't trust our own faculties let alone believe in our own experiences and should only rely on the scientific studies done by people we don't know that are currently available for us to read on the internet

no need to trust yourself in this case though its good that you do
Decreased dopamine brain reactivity in marijuana abusers is associated with negative emotionality and addiction severity. - PubMed - NCBI

"Marijuana abusers show lower positive and higher negative emotionality scores than controls, which is consistent, on one hand, with lower reward sensitivity and motivation and, on the other hand, with increased stress reactivity and irritability. To investigate this aspect of marijuana’s impact on the human brain, we compared the brain’s reactivity in marijuana abusers vs. controls when challenged with methylphenidate (MP). We found that marijuana abusers display attenuated dopamine (DA) responses to MP, including reduced decreases in striatal distribution volumes. These deficits cannot be unambiguously ascribed to reduced DA release (because decreases in nondisplaceable binding potential were not blunted) but could reflect a downstream postsynaptic effect that in the ventral striatum (brain reward region) might contribute to marijuana’s negative emotionality and addictive behaviors."

 

[smith]

no need to trust yourself in this case though its good that you do
Decreased dopamine brain reactivity in marijuana abusers is associated with negative emotionality and addiction severity. - PubMed - NCBI

Thanks, I remember reading a few studies actually showing the negative effects and one that I remember the most wrote about THC wasting oxytocin and causing emotional dulling, I can't seem to find it now though. I wonder if it was retracted. But y'know, most people will say that's BS because we're contrarians and anything that was once taboo gets automatically praised as being 100% healthy. Yay for anhedonia and emotional flatness!

 

[damngoodcoffee]

Nothing wrong with good quality cannabis.

Especially sativas. ^_^

The smoking is bad though.

 

[X3CyO]

It takes time.

Its good that you havent misused it and gained any anxiety, eating, depersonalization, schizoid issues though.

Id give it a month or two if you exercise.

If it still happens, it may be low blood sugar.. if not, id use some pregnenolone.

 

[jandrade1997]

The principal downside of THC (not CBD mind you, which seems to have opposite effects) is that agonism of the CB1 receptor causes increased COX-2 expression in the brain, and therefore increased inflammatory prostaglandins. Something like aspirin, or maybe even more preferably a more brain-active cox-2 inhibitor like CBD or pycnogenol, should prevent and perhaps reverse any effects. Here's a study confirming that COX-2 inhibition prevents the negative neurological effects caused by THC: Δ9-THC-caused synaptic and memory impairments are mediated through COX-2 signaling

 

[jandrade1997]

Fortunately, the anti-Alzheimer's/anti-neurodegeneration effects of THC are preserved even with this COX-2 inhibition.