KCRag Forum

KCKev wrote: Kava Kava.... Greatest stress relief I have ever found..... But alas, The wise Government has decide that 400 times the dosage in rats causes liver damage, so Pull it from the market....

I'm sure someone like Upjohn makes a pill to replace it.

Stress Kills! People Kill.. Living kills... where does it stop?

Answer... Death

riebschlager wrote:

riebschlager wrote:

staubio wrote: I kinda imagine them sitting their not noticing a think, munching on hot leaves, until their internal temperature ignites the oil and they explode.

staubio wrote: Holy crap.  Such a horrible common error, too.  I was obviously preoccupied or not paying attention.  I'm a fraud -- I even called someone's usage errors out previously.

staubio wrote: Holy crap.  Such a horrible common error, too.  I was obviously preoccupied or not paying attention.  I'm a fraud -- I even called someone's usage errors out previously.

kcdcchef wrote: many, many, MANY times you have.

kc-vino wrote: Here is something to consider!?!?!?  If we could get every KCskyscraper member together for a kegger......or......for a huge bong party which would be better.  My prediction (half joking) if we drank their would be fist fights between member and with the opposite (pot) we would have the development ideas flowing like crazy

None the less a strange scenario

kc-vino wrote: Should we all meet under a willow tree by the playground?  The ultimate place to have this scrap/party blow out would be Penn Valley Park?  What about Oppenstein?

DowntownBryan wrote: I'm surprised this hasn't gone to the dumpster. We have multiple people admitting to using an illegal drug, and we all know that Michael can search your IP address and instantly know your street address, legal name, and social security number.

DowntownBryan wrote: I'm surprised this hasn't gone to the dumpster. We have multiple people admitting to using an illegal drug, and we all know that Michael can search your IP address and instantly know your street address, legal name, and social security number.

Nonetheless, says Dr. Iversen in an interview, "We know a whole lot more about THC now than we did 10 years ago." The most important discovery was of a special receptor in cells for THC, a kind of ready-made biological slot for exactly what marijuana has to deliver. This finding established that the drug was not just "dissolving in the membranes of brain cells in a nonspecific sort of way," says Iversen. "There's a very specific receptor protein."

The places in the body with THC receptors seem to correspond with the drug's effects, though not always. "One of the key areas in the [brain's] frontal cortex has a high density of [such] receptors," says Iversen, "and that may have something to do with impairment in what brain scientists call 'executive' functions -- short-term memory, learning, the ability to take in information, plan ahead, make complicated future arrangements. That ties in reasonably well with actual experience," he adds dryly.

On the other hand, there are also THC receptors in the white blood cells of our immune system, which do not seem to have anything to do with the experience of intoxication and whose function is "largely obscure," Iversen says.

There are no THC receptors in the brain stem, which controls critical functions like respiration, according to Dr. Mackie. That's partly why you never hear of someone fatally OD'ing on pot. "THC is not wired to be as harmful," Mackie says.