For awhile now I have been going through alot of changes in my life and it has been a time of growth you could say. For the past few months now I have been dreaming day and night about life. How we could make it better, how I wanted to make it better..... I want to live as simply as possible outside the confines of socity and the all mgihty dollar! I want to be able to wakeup in the morning a spend my day earning a living doing something I am proud of and feel as though its mine. I'm an MA and I have a pretty good job but I don't feel fulfilled or at peace. I met this PA who used to work with me and she gave me a journal and the cover of it said "Live the life you dreamed!" I broke down cring because it touched on everything I was feeling. This world is so beautiful and if people could just see that what you have inwardly is more important than outwardly everything would be fine. I want to be one of the people who add to the beauty of our planet and make it a better place for others. But the sad things is I'm scared...... Chicken shit is more like it! I spend all my time dreaming about this life and the world that my mother says never happened even when the hippies where around and that I'm leaving in a dream world. But this isn't going to go away! So what do I do? Live in a dream world? or risk it all? You guys risked everything back in the 60's and look at the times. Do you guys think it was worth it? What should I do ...........
Who says you have to risk it all? Keep your present job and work part-time for an organization concerned with the environment, world peace, whatever you wish to be involved with, even if it's volunteer work. You may decide this is what you really want to do with your life even if it means a big pay cut. If not then you can always keep doing occasional volunteer work. It's better to be happy than successful. Live the life you love so you can love the life you live.
that's sick.i mean really,really sick.where's the intellect? TUESDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Adding a new twist to the debate over the effects of marijuana, Greek researchers say the minds of long-term pot smokers don't process things as well as those of other people. People who smoked at least four joints a week performed worse on a variety of mental tests, including those measuring memory, attention and verbal fluency. And those who smoked for more than 10 years had the most problems of all, the researchers report in the March 14 issue of Neurology. The study doesn't definitively link marijuana use to the cognitive problems, and it's possible that other factors could be to blame. Prior research has also offered conflicting findings about the mental effects of marijuana. Still, the findings suggest that chronic pot smoking isn't a good idea over the long term, said Barbara Flannery, a drug and alcohol researcher who's familiar with the findings. "The longer you smoke marijuana, the more likely you are to experience a diminution of cognitive functions that are critical for 'normal' daily functioning," she said. Greek researchers at the University Hospital of Patras gave cognitive tests to 64 people in a drug-abuse treatment program. Twenty were long-term marijuana users who had smoked for at least a decade. Twenty others had smoked pot for shorter periods and the remaining 24 hadn't used marijuana for at least two years. All the participants abstained from using marijuana for 24 hours prior to the tests. Marijuana users tended to do worse on the tests, the researchers report. On a decision-making test, for example, long-term users were impaired 70 percent of the time, compared to 55 percent among short-term users and 8 percent among non-users. In another test, the participants were asked to recall a list of words. The non-pot users did best, recalling an average of 12 of 15 words; the long-term users could only remember an average of seven. Research into the mental effects of marijuana is controversial, with some advocates of the drug claiming that its rumored mind-addling powers are a myth. The new study brings new information to the debate, especially about the differences between short- and long-term pot users, said researcher Flannery, who works for a private research company affiliated with the University of North Carolina in Research Triangle Park, N.C., said it's hard to "untangle" whether marijuana use directly causes brain deficits. The study's lead author agreed that conclusions on cause-and-effect are difficult. However, researcher Lambros Messinis added that his team tried to adjust the study to account for other possible causes. If marijuana does harm the brain, it's not clear how it may do so. Scientists have found evidence that regular marijuana use can constrict blood vessels in the brain -- an effect also found in people with diabetes and chronic high blood pressure. The good news? There's some evidence that it may be possible to reverse the mental effects of long-term marijuana use, Messinis said, although not all experts agree that this might be possible. More
