Toddler smokes weed - so what?

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That clearly demonstrates why it's a bad thing that no proof of intelligence is required before whelping. And some postings here do, too.
It's also... funny how some blokes deny the negative side effects of Marijuana; would you allow your toddler to drink your Diazepam, too?

[Cerus]

I had to write a paper on traumatic brain injuries for my psych class and, long story short, there's no magical child ability to recover from brain damage.

Oh my bad. I didn't realize you had taken a psych class and are now the worlds expert on the physiology of human brain. And I thought psych majors trying to psychoanalyze their friends after a week of classes was bad. Now we have ones presuming themselves experts on the physical brain itself.

The brain can and most certainly does repair itself and that happens faster, easier and more often the younger you are. Why? Because of the massive development the brain of a child is still going through for starters. It can more easily rewire itself to compensate for the damage. Obviously severe brain trauma is going to have some outward signs but minor damage from say a 5 second hypoxic event during birth is usually something the brain will quite easily recover from.

Children dropped on their heads as infants typically have zero issues after the fact. An adult suffering the equivalent trauma wouldn't be so lucky. Kids are very resilient. Even bruises and scratches heal in a fraction of the time.

And just so you know. This is coming from experience. My own toddler had a hypoxic event when he was born. Severe enough that he was rushed to full body cooling treatment moments after birth and intubated in the NICU for 12 days. Tests showed multiple areas of brain damage and seizure activity. They pummeled us with developmental problems he would likely experience and the need for powerful anti-seizure meds.

A couple months after birth and he was perfectly healthy, on zero medication and any damage was then nonexistent. He's ahead of the game on all his milestones and is the sharpest child I've ever been around. So yes - children and their ability to recover is quite remarkable.

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Wow you must not have been here long.
I know stuff about medicine, that doesn't mean I can't be wrong about some things.

To me if something is actually TOXIC, seems counter-intuitive to use it as medicine.




I should have worded my sentence more clearly.
Just because something IS illegal, doesn't ALWAYS mean it's bad.
People should not always base what's right or wrong according to the law.

All drugs have some level of toxicity. Some quite severe. Just because the OTC dose of Tylenol probably won't cause any NOTICEABLE adverse reactions doesn't mean it didn't and doesn't mean that Tylenol in itself is 100% safe. Take enough and you can kiss your liver goodbye if not your life. Small doses doesn't make something less toxic, just less likely to cause a noticeable reaction.

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Marijuana is only safe after your brain fully develops. You shouldn't smoke it before 18, otherwise it causes your IQ to drop permanently.

This is the truth, while I'm for legalizing it, it's just not good for people who aren't adults yet.

[brimdog]

There appears to be a correlation between the people posted about in the OP and many of the posters on these forums.

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Oh my bad. I didn't realize you had taken a psych class and are now the worlds expert on the physiology of human brain. And I thought psych majors trying to psychoanalyze their friends after a week of classes was bad. Now we have ones presuming themselves experts on the physical brain itself.

The brain can and most certainly does repair itself and that happens faster, easier and more often the younger you are. Why? Because of the massive development the brain of a child is still going through for starters. It can more easily rewire itself to compensate for the damage. Obviously severe brain trauma is going to have some outward signs but minor damage from say a 5 second hypoxic event during birth is usually something the brain will quite easily recover from.

Children dropped on their heads as infants typically have zero issues after the fact. An adult suffering the equivalent trauma wouldn't be so lucky. Kids are very resilient. Even bruises and scratches heal in a fraction of the time.

And just so you know. This is coming from experience. My own toddler had a hypoxic event when he was born. Severe enough that he was rushed to full body cooling treatment moments after birth and intubated in the NICU for 12 days. Tests showed multiple areas of brain damage and seizure activity. They pummeled us with developmental problems he would likely experience and the need for powerful anti-seizure meds.

A couple months after birth and he was perfectly healthy, on zero medication and any damage was then nonexistent. He's ahead of the game on all his milestones and is the sharpest child I've ever been around. So yes - children and their ability to recover is quite remarkable.

Just becouse your kid did a miracle recovery doesnt mean every kid out there will aswell. Everyone are affected in a diffrent way, noone is the other one alike. Its great that your kid did great, i know people that has been using and drinking while being pregnant. Their kids were born with severe defects and other issues. But i guess that doesnt happen in your world becouse everyone recovers miraculously, just like your kid did.

Oh and by the way. You question someone about what they know about the human brain and how it works, yet you are the one with all the correct information. Hypocrite much?

Ask yourself this. If you give a toddler something that has a scientificly studied and proven effect on how it inhibits the brain development and then think it will recover all the same just becouse. Then having this conversation doesnt even make any sense.

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It damages the brain period. Age doesn't matter. In fact - the younger the brain the easier its able to correct and repair minor damage. Being 18 years of age doesn't magically make your brain safe from the damaging effects of drugs or stop developing.

Shut up you mong, clearly you haven't a clue what you're talking about.


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[Zoaric]

Studies have shown that it has a permanent detrimental effect on the brain of adolescents because it is still developing. I imagine it's even worse with toddlers. When people say that it's completely safe that's not exactly true; it is for most people, but there are risk groups where it can have negative effects.

That being said it's probably not all that smart to condition children into drug habits to begin with. The toddler obviously didn't do it out of his own will / isn't capable to decide yet.

I think this back on page one said it all for me.

[Eroginous]

I saw this earlier and thought people in the comments are over reacting.

Link

They're acting like they're forcefully injecting the kid with heroin, with a dirty AIDs ridden needle.

You see people saying marijuana is natural, it's just a plant, nobody has died from it, people use it as medicine etc.
So what's so bad about a kid smoking a little bit of it?

I don't condone it and wouldn't do that to my kids when I have them but if marijuana is so good as people tend to say, why is this so bad?

For the reading comprehension impaired - I'm not defending the idiots that thought it was a good idea to do this, record it and put it on facebook.

From the context of the vine, it sounds like some teenagers giving a toddler weed in a very irresponsible fashion. I wouldn't say that giving weed to a child is bad on it's own (there are medical cases where it's justifiable as part of treatment for a disease), but this particular instance is just child abuse.

[Simca]

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