Right. MJ is actually a sede issue.

LT wrote: "What is the purpose of smoking marijuana, confusing the mind?"

For one, it can help settle the mind of those with anxiety disorders (and I mean neurological, not those who experience the "feeling" once in a while) who live in a constant state of "confusion" already.

It's sad that Meg's paranoia about sedevacantism is so debilitating that one might say it causes in her some cognitive impairment.  Meg gets triggered by the mere mention of "sede".

Unclear why you'd use NBC News as your serious evidence.

I found the relevant article.  No surprise that NBC News sensationalizes a rather weak article.

I'll do a deeper review, but my preliminary read finds that the "meta-analysis" makes a great show talking about THC as a CB1 agonist, but both pure THC and whole plant MJ stimulate all the endocannabinoid receptors (though in greatly varying degrees), some of which counterbalance CB1 effects. Then throughout the paper the authors mention "CB1 agonist," but do not make clear whether they used a pharmaceutical or the plant or both. I have already mentioned that MJ patients consistently report inferior benefit from pharmaceutical monotherapies.

The study also confesses the "heterogeneity" of the subjects involved, so admit that the subjects and their dosages were so diverse that numerous confounding factors (race, age of use, concurrent alcohol or other substances, etc.) undercut their admittedly "low" Confidence Intervals.

It's interesting, but weak. I'll do a deeper review.

1) I don't jump in and takes sides of an issue to act like a "White Knight" when someone is being ganged up on.  I call each issue as I see it, regardless of the person making the point.  In fact, I look at each issue in isolation and don't try to turn even something like this topic in to an SV vs. R&R debate.  I've agreed and disagreed with both sedevacantists and R&R, depending on the issue.

2) It was Meg who decided to turn this into another smear against SVs.

3) I've called her out before for her irrational contempt toward and paranoia about sedevacantism.  EVERY SINGLE TIME she disagrees with someone on any issue who happens to also be a sedevacantist, she attributes the disagreement to sedevacantism.

4) My post was a combination of #3 above here and also a joke in that she made a post about cognitive impairment from marijuana.

No need for you to "jump in" and play "White Knight" to rescue the damsel in distress.

Unclear why you'd use NBC News as your serious evidence.

I found the relevant article.  No surprise that NBC News sensationalizes a rather weak article.

I'll do a deeper review, but my preliminary read finds that the "meta-analysis" makes a great show talking about THC as a CB1 agonist, but both pure THC and whole plant MJ stimulate all the endocannabinoid receptors (though in greatly varying degrees), some of which counterbalance CB1 effects. Then throughout the paper the authors mention "CB1 agonist," but do not make clear whether they used a pharmaceutical or the plant or both. I have already mentioned that MJ patients consistently report inferior benefit from pharmaceutical monotherapies.

The study also confesses the "heterogeneity" of the subjects involved, so admit that the subjects and their dosages were so diverse that numerous confounding factors (race, age of use, concurrent alcohol or other substances, etc.) undercut their admittedly "low" Confidence Intervals.

It's interesting, but weak. I'll do a deeper review.

…Poor Mark79 is being criticized. We can't have that.