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2013-08-25 Science & Technology
Cocaine rapidly changes the brain
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Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-25 16:31|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1762 views ]  Top

1 new structures linked to learning and memory

Hmmm, is there any way to allow the brain to grow, but NOT be addicted?

If so there's a lot to learn. (High school)
Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-08-25 18:12||   2013-08-25 18:12|| Front Page Top

2 FUD. There is no way that cocaine is "addictive" but coffee isn't.
Posted by Iblis 2013-08-25 18:27||   2013-08-25 18:27|| Front Page Top

3 
"We'll...no shit?"
- Sr. Drill Instructor Hartman
Posted by Lowspark 2013-08-25 19:00||   2013-08-25 19:00|| Front Page Top

4 There is no way that cocaine is "addictive" but coffee isn't.

You meant 'caffeine', right?
Posted by Pappy 2013-08-25 19:14||   2013-08-25 19:14|| Front Page Top

5 Well, cocaine and caffeine are both alkaloids. Along with curare, mescaline and a bunch of other interesting but dangerous molecules...
Posted by M. Murcek 2013-08-25 19:51||   2013-08-25 19:51|| Front Page Top

6 Forgot to mention nicotine, another alkaloid, dontcha know...
Posted by M. Murcek 2013-08-25 19:52||   2013-08-25 19:52|| Front Page Top

7 caffeine doesn't spark that ATM-elbow reaction
Posted by Frank G 2013-08-25 20:17||   2013-08-25 20:17|| Front Page Top

8 Native Americans have been using tobacco and peyote for a long time. Nicotine and mescaline...
Posted by M. Murcek 2013-08-25 20:33||   2013-08-25 20:33|| Front Page Top

9 
Native Americans have been using tobacco and peyote for a long time.


And see what it's done for them!

Does this explain Obama?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2013-08-25 20:59||   2013-08-25 20:59|| Front Page Top

10 obooboo ain't no Native American. Since he doesn't want anyone to know where he came from, "citizen of the world" is a suspect origin...
Posted by M. Murcek 2013-08-25 21:14||   2013-08-25 21:14|| Front Page Top

11 I can't feature that, Jokerman.
Posted by Hupomorong Unath1167 2013-08-25 22:24||   2013-08-25 22:24|| Front Page Top

12 Scopolamine, historically used for motion sickness and other forms of nausea, and now prescribed for depression, causes growth of the dendritic spines as well. It is thought that other anti-depressant drugs may also have a similar effect, although over a period of weeks and months rather than hours and days.
Posted by trailing wife 2013-08-25 23:22||   2013-08-25 23:22|| Front Page Top

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