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Disclaimer -IMO, Neither one is inherently good or bad in and of itself, however in the context of living under a system of white supremacy the purpose of this thread is to determine which is more detrimental to the black community. Because @Kavin The 1 created multiple threads on Christianity, I'll just cover the data on marijuana and its effects on the black community.
One of the main complaints @Kavin The 1 had with Christianity is the name itself. Christian= "cretin" or "stupid person" therefore one could say religion negatively affects ones mental cognition.
But what does the data say about the effects of Marijuana on one's mental cognition?
Although acute in many cases, there are adverse effects with marijuana use on mental cognition that can affect life or death choices in a financially oppressed community. A key sub-category in mental cognition is decision-making. Decision-making is essential to survival in the black community
Decision-making fundamentals
As a rule, decision-making involves a multi-part process. Specific steps in this process include such things as:
NIDA reported last December that regular marijuana use is on the rise among teenagers, citing an increase of more than 10 percent in students in 8th, 10th and 12th grade. In addition, NIDA’s 2010 Monitoring the Future study surveyed 46,482 students in 396 public and private schools across 48 states and corroborated the results of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, also released last year.
In the study, researchers observed that marijuana users performed poorly on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), which is a complex decision-making task in which participants make choices under ambiguous conditions and win or lose money based on their choices. The IGT goal is to use the feedback of the wins and losses to guide future choices towards safe options that result in winning more and losing less. The early phase of the IGT is particularly important because early exposure to wins and losses aid the development of decision-making strategies that are exploited in later phases of the task.
Sixteen chronic marijuana users and 16 controls, or non users, performed a modified IGT in an MRI scanner. Performance was tracked and functional brain activity in response to early wins and losses was examined. Researchers were looking to see if poor performance of marijuana users was related to differences in brain activity while evaluating the positive and negative information conveyed by wins and losses during the early, strategy development phase of the IGT.
For the control group, after multiple exposures to early large monetary losses, they began to choose safer, less negative options on the task. In contrast, the marijuana users generally failed to alter their selection patterns and continued to make disadvantageous choices throughout the task. The researchers found that this was because marijuana users were less sensitive to the negative feedback during strategy development.
“The marijuana users appear to have a blunted response to losing. They don’t figure out a strategy to avoid monetary losses and this is associated with a decreased functional brain response to the early, negative information that guides the other group to safer choices,” Wesley said. “The bottom line is that it looks like they don’t care as much if they lose.”
Decision-making Processes Blunted in Chronic Marijuana Smokers
Another complaint against religion is the "mental bondage" it generates within the black community, in the next half I'll go over the physical bondage marijuana generates within that same community
One of the main complaints @Kavin The 1 had with Christianity is the name itself. Christian= "cretin" or "stupid person" therefore one could say religion negatively affects ones mental cognition.
But what does the data say about the effects of Marijuana on one's mental cognition?
Although acute in many cases, there are adverse effects with marijuana use on mental cognition that can affect life or death choices in a financially oppressed community. A key sub-category in mental cognition is decision-making. Decision-making is essential to survival in the black community
Decision-making fundamentals
As a rule, decision-making involves a multi-part process. Specific steps in this process include such things as:
- Recognizing the need for action
- Acquiring information to fuel the problem-solving
- Identifying the potential choices
- Calculating the pros and cons
- Selecting a plan of attack
- Acting, and then reflecting on the outcome later
NIDA reported last December that regular marijuana use is on the rise among teenagers, citing an increase of more than 10 percent in students in 8th, 10th and 12th grade. In addition, NIDA’s 2010 Monitoring the Future study surveyed 46,482 students in 396 public and private schools across 48 states and corroborated the results of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, also released last year.
In the study, researchers observed that marijuana users performed poorly on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), which is a complex decision-making task in which participants make choices under ambiguous conditions and win or lose money based on their choices. The IGT goal is to use the feedback of the wins and losses to guide future choices towards safe options that result in winning more and losing less. The early phase of the IGT is particularly important because early exposure to wins and losses aid the development of decision-making strategies that are exploited in later phases of the task.
Sixteen chronic marijuana users and 16 controls, or non users, performed a modified IGT in an MRI scanner. Performance was tracked and functional brain activity in response to early wins and losses was examined. Researchers were looking to see if poor performance of marijuana users was related to differences in brain activity while evaluating the positive and negative information conveyed by wins and losses during the early, strategy development phase of the IGT.
For the control group, after multiple exposures to early large monetary losses, they began to choose safer, less negative options on the task. In contrast, the marijuana users generally failed to alter their selection patterns and continued to make disadvantageous choices throughout the task. The researchers found that this was because marijuana users were less sensitive to the negative feedback during strategy development.
“The marijuana users appear to have a blunted response to losing. They don’t figure out a strategy to avoid monetary losses and this is associated with a decreased functional brain response to the early, negative information that guides the other group to safer choices,” Wesley said. “The bottom line is that it looks like they don’t care as much if they lose.”
Decision-making Processes Blunted in Chronic Marijuana Smokers
Another complaint against religion is the "mental bondage" it generates within the black community, in the next half I'll go over the physical bondage marijuana generates within that same community
...didn't you know that the so called "prophets" of the "bible" inhaled weed vapors in caves while they had visions???...
