Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier

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RESULTS: Current marijuana users had significantly smaller waist circumference than participants who had never used marijuana, even after adjusting for factors like age, sex, tobacco and alcohol use, and physical activity levels. They also had higher levels of HDL ("good cholesterol"). The most significant differences between those who smoked marijuana and those who never or no longer did was that current smokers' insulin levels were reduced by 16 percent and their insulin resistance (a condition in which the body has trouble absorbing glucose from the bloodstream) was reduced by 17 percent.
People who had previously used marijuana, but not in the past thirty days, tended to have similar outcomes, but to a much lesser degree. In addition, none of these measures were impacted by how much marijuana people reported smoking.
IMPLICATIONS: Although they're not sure exactly how it happens, write the authors, these findings suggest that marijuana somehow works to improve insulin control, regulating body weight and perhaps explaining why marijuana users have a lower incidence of diabetes. Adding to the big questions -- "can weed can treat obesity?" and "marijuana makes you skinny?!" -- is the possibility that marijuana might be useful in helping people to manage their blood sugar.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/study-why-pot-smokers-are-skinnier/275846/

monsanto will "improve it"... and big pharma will keep the natural stuff illegal... of course...

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hey red... weren't you on a diet... heh heh... get you some florida kind buds...:D
 
screw monsanto. this is like aspirin. It's natural, it's already OUT there and it seems to work.

I still have no interest in personally using any drug but if this helps cancer patients and even prevents / treats diabetes then I'm all for it
 
I hate the 'it's natural' line. It's natural means squat. There are plenty of harmful substances that are natural. Nightshade is natural and probably tasty with your favorite salad dressing, go give it a try. ;)
 
faethor said:
I hate the 'it's natural' line. It's natural means squat. There are plenty of harmful substances that are natural. Nightshade is natural and probably tasty with your favorite salad dressing, go give it a try. ;)
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somethings "naturalness" is determined by it's harm factor?
 
faethor said:
I hate the 'it's natural' line. It's natural means squat. There are plenty of harmful substances that are natural. Nightshade is natural and probably tasty with your favorite salad dressing, go give it a try. ;)
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I'm not a pot smoker or drug user, I'm not using "natural in the way they use it

it's not an excuse. it's just a fact. Aspirin comes from tree bark if I recall correctly. It has an effect on one's body just the way natural poisons work. Except those have a negative effect.
 
faethor said:
I hate the 'it's natural' line. It's natural means squat. There are plenty of harmful substances that are natural. Nightshade is natural and probably tasty with your favorite salad dressing, go give it a try. ;)
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This is a good point and something worth discussing in my opinion. On the one hand, many practically harmless relaxants(?) are not naturally occurring. On the other, many natural occurring substances are simultaneously harmful and completely legal.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Only 6% percentage of Americans think that people should go to jail for marijuana possession. 35% think there should be no punishment at all.
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in my view pot is no different than smoking cigarettes.
And, in fact, cigarettes may be more unhealthy.

they both stink up the place. I always asked my friends NOT to smoke in my apt.

that's MY main complaint about cigarettes. (well, that and they kill people)
 
faethor said:
I hate the 'it's natural' line. It's natural means squat. There are plenty of harmful substances that are natural. Nightshade is natural and probably tasty with your favorite salad dressing, go give it a try. ;)
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Tomatoes and Potatoes are both members of the nightshade family of plants,
would strongly recommend against eating a tomato or potato leaf salad though!!!
if Potatoes are cooked at a high temperature (fried!!) they form a known cancer causing chemical (acrylamide)


Caster beans are all natural! used to make Caster Oil!
and no studies have ever shown them to cause cancer!
... mainly because rats fed castor beans die within minutes to hours ...
 
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