Date:   1/24/2010 4:08:11 AM ( 14 y ago)
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Benefits are primarily helping to prevent wasting in diseases like cancer and pain control.

Drawbacks include being very estrogenic. And if smoked the heavy tar content, especially if not filtered through something. There are also some toxic chemicals sometimes used in its cultivation such as colchicine. Eating it does eliminate the tar in the lungs issue.

Here is a link that discusses the effects on the neurotransmitters:

http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/hemp/BRAIN.HTM


and

http://www.benbest.com/science/anatmind/anatmd10.html


"Perception of time-intervals is believed to be mediated by spiny neurons located in the striatum of the basal ganglia. Timing begins with a burst of dopamine and ends with a recognized signal. Marijuana slows subjective time by lowering dopamine available, whereas cocaine and methamphetamine accelerates the sense of time by increasing dopamine availability. (Adrenaline and stress hormones can also "make seconds feel like hours".)"
 

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