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The Human Brain Is A Tangled Clump Of Wires But A New Theory Suggests


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I'm just wondering, given the fact that cannabis was quite possibly one of the first ever crops that man began cultivating, if its use may have had something to do with our brains developing these more complex pathways? The Chinese were said to be the first to cultivate Canna, they are a smart bunch of cookies............
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Very doubtful Burner.... the evolution of the human brain occurred a lot earlier than the cultivation of cannabis.

 

Your second comment, that the Chinese 'are a smart bunch of cookies' is a cultural stereotype. In most of the Central Asian countries schooling is competitive from day one. If you don't study hard and get good grades as a 6 year old, you don't get to go to school as a 7 year old- period.

 

Coming from that sort of cultural background, migrant students from Central Asian countries do appear smarter, more diligent and focused on their school work than do local counterparts. But, I'll stress it again, this is nothing to do with people as individuals (or their biological brains) and everything to do with cultural norms and societal expectations.

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Very doubtful Burner.... the evolution of the human brain occurred a lot earlier than the cultivation of cannabis.

 

 

 

Ah. Well maybe in some sense, but the cannabinoid receptor family is very "old" phylogenetically speaking - sea squirts have them! 
Just about all vertebrates have them - you make endocannabinoids when you (eg) meditate for an hour or do some serious exercise.
 
They're so old that maybe the plant (like cats) had enough time to attract cultivators and domesticated us - we already had the receptors :)
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I just lost a post that explained why both cats and cannabis are secondary to human development through the millenia lol

 

maybe later...

I hate it when that happens! >:( That's why when, or if, I'm writing a long post, I type it up in notepad first. ;)

 

Hate it when that happens, sounds like my cup of tea hope you get the motivation to try again later :D

 

Naycha :peace:

 

It does sound very interesting indeed. Esp since I'm a Crazy Stoner Cat Lady. Or would that be Crazy Cat Stoner Lady?

Maybe Crazy Cat Lady Stoner....

However it goes, I'm crazy, a stoner, and love cats. lol

 

I'll try and find the inner sociologist again later on...

 

Ooooh. I REALLY hope you do!

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Okies... still having trouble getting the right train of thought going... it's probably because I haven't had a smoke for a few days and I completed soc major stoned... lol state dependant learning... it will all come flooding back as soon as I have a smoke... I should go check the cupboard and makesure there isn't a stray bud anywhere....

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