- Will
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“Those who do not view armed self defense as a basic human right, ignore the mass graves of those who died on their knees at the hands of tyrants.”
Sorry hmac, I do not have a subscription to NEJM so cannot read the whole article.
Two broken Tigers, on fire in the night,
Flicker their souls to the wind...
-Roads to Moscow
Not Forgotten:
http://www.virtualwall.org/dk/KillenJD01a.htm
http://www.virtualwall.org/db/BoddenTR01a.htm
I thought this an interesting thread bump topic:
What causes runners "high" It's not what you may think...
Homing In on the Source of Runner’s High
We’ve probably all heard someone exclaim, “Ah, my endorphins are kicking in!” at the end of a good run. Endorphins are famous for supposedly producing “runner’s high,” that fleeting sense of calm and euphoria that engulfs many of us after a satisfying workout.
But in fact, endorphins may be unfairly hogging the credit for making workouts enjoyable, according to an enlightening new experiment with animals. The findings suggest that endorphins have little to do with runner’s high. Instead, that euphoric feeling may be the product of a completely different but oddly familiar substance — the body’s own endocannabinoids, the chemicals that, like the cannabinoids in marijuana, lighten mood.
Endorphins first became a household word in the 1980s, when researchers found that blood levels increased after prolonged exercise. This finding made sense. Exercise can cause discomfort or pain, and endorphins are the body’s self-produced opiates, with pain-relieving properties much like morphine.
From that discovery, it was a short step to believing that endorphins must also produce the pleasurable mental sensations that many people feel after exercise.
But there is a substantial problem with that idea, and it involves the substantial-ness of endorphins. They are large molecules, too big to pass through the blood-brain barrier. They might staunch pain in the muscles, but they wouldn’t have effects directly inside the brain, where any high would originate.
Cont:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/1...-runners-high/
- Will
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“Those who do not view armed self defense as a basic human right, ignore the mass graves of those who died on their knees at the hands of tyrants.”
"endocannabinoids"
Love that word! Thanks for building my vocab.
There are some double blind, peer reviewed articles out there in the British and Canadian Journals of Medicine out there that I will try to dig up after work that show cannabis' effectiveness on pain, especially when coupled with opiates. It seemed to make the opiates work better.
As someone who has had a lifetime of pain, (over 20 operations including 4 total hip replacements, and I'm in my 40's) and for years was on 120mg morphine and 40mg oxycontin, I can only give you my experience with cannabis. It completely screwed me up in middle/high school, and I went from straight A's to D's and F's. Later in life it helped me get off the opiates completely, made it possible for me to have a normal life, and go back to college. Plus I was less of an asshole like I was on opiates.
Smoking it didn't stop the pain, in my experience, it just made it so my mind wouldn't obsess over it. Eating it however was a different story, I was like the tin man who just got oiled up. Eating it absolutely decreased my pain and didn't fuzz up my brain as much. I had to discontinue use years ago when I started getting above trig in college, it just didn't allow my brain to function at that level. If they found a way to get the benefits from it without it affecting my concentration, and it was legal, I would be on it like white on rice.
just my .02c and experience with it.
"We prepare, so we don't end up at the superdome"- unknown
"IMHO, if you wanted to shoot crap ammo, you should have bought a crap upper. It makes baby Jesus cry when he sees crap ammo put through a nice upper."- C4IGrant
A few very close friends of mine have benefitted from marijuana. A buddy, who was a helo crew chief in the AF, fell off an UH-60 breaking his back. Numerous surgeries, oxycontin, other hardcore drug patches, etc. and he was a strung out, depressed mess, in lots of pain. Marijuana helped him get off the narcotics, helped relieve his pain, and he's good to go now. He still smokes pot, says it helps his back, helps him sleep, and I'm cool with that.
Another great friend of mine uses it to deal with his Chron's. It works far better than any of the prescribed medicines he's used for the past 20 years.
Anecdotal? Yup. But if they say it helps them that's good enough for me. Besides that, America, freedom, and owning your own body, are all good enough reasons for me.
- Will
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LE/Mil specific info:
https://brinkzone.com/category/swatleomilitary/
“Those who do not view armed self defense as a basic human right, ignore the mass graves of those who died on their knees at the hands of tyrants.”
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