Joe Rogan, Eddie Bravo on Pot Head Losers, Propaganda (Video)

Joe Rogan, Eddie Bravo on Pot Head Losers, Propaganda (Video) | Third Monk

From The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast #144 – Eddie Bravo

Joe Rogan on “Pot Head Losers” and Weed as a Bullshit Detector

Yeah, it could fuck up your life. People can smoke pot and become losers. But guess what? They would have become losers anyway. It’s like what you’re saying is, the lazy people with no ambition who aren’t that bright, pot gets a hold of them and it’s gonna fuck up their lives. But guess what? Their lives are already fucked up. You come to certain roadblocks or certain things in your life where you have to make decisions about your behavior and where you have to reassess yourself. If you can’t get through the weed hurdle, how the fuck are you going to deal with the real world? Because weed to me is the truth. When I smoke pot, I can say a lot of silly shit and get weird and start talking about the universe but what it is to me is the truth. Anything that’s bullshit, anything that’s a lie, anything that’s misleading is glaring when you’re high. Acting is glaring. If you see a movie high with bad actors, it’s glaring. If you see a political speech high, it’s glaring. You feel the bullshit. People get the wrong impression. It’s really a shame, it’s not that everyone has to do it. But you shouldn’t get upset when someone is telling you an honest interpretation of the positive experiences they have when they’re high.

Eddie Bravo on the Anti Marijuana Propaganda Tone Shift

Any negative thought you have about weed, it stems from the propaganda from the 30s. (Reefer Madness) There’s many movies you can watch on Youtube to see where the propaganda all started. The reason they stopped saying that it makes you go crazy, jump out of windows, and kill people is because people got hip to it. They believed it in the 30s and 40s but then the people who were smoking weed in the 50s and 60s realized that it wasn’t making them crazy and it’s actually pretty cool so they had to change their stance. Slowly it evolved from “weed kills you” to “weed makes you worthless”. Any negative thought you have for marijuana, it’s because we’ve all been brainwashed. I used to be the biggest weed hater ever until I was 28. I couldn’t stand pot heads, they made me sick. Every band I was in had one or two potheads. When they’d fuck up on stage or rehearsal, I would blame the weed. I’d get angry “Dude, are you fucken high? You can’t fucken play bass and smoke weed”. But every now and then I would be talked into smoking weed and I’d get paranoid and hate it. What happens when you’re high is it is roaring river of information that’s just flooded into your brain. Some people don’t want to ride those roaring rapids, they want to stay in the tent. Some people ride it to absorb that energy and use it for their benefit

> #144 Eddie Bravo | Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

Does Marijuana Make You Stupid? (Study)

Does Marijuana Make You Stupid? (Study) | Third Monk

In today’s media portrayal of marijuana, all it takes is one bong hit before people become ridiculously stupid, unable to solve the simplest problems or utter a coherent sentence. The popular concern is that smoking weed permanently reduces learning and memory. A recent study tested for the negative effects of marijuana but instead found that marijuana can actually have positive results for the brain.

The scientists found that amount of pot consumed had no measurable impact on cognitive performance. The sole exception was performance on a test of short-term verbal memory, in which “current heavy users” performed slightly worse than former users. The researchers conclude that, contrary to earlier findings, the mind altering properties of marijuana are ephemeral and fleeting.

Taken together, these studies demonstrate that popular stereotypes of marijuana users are unfair and untrue. While it’s definitely not a good idea to perform a cognitively demanding task (such as driving!) while stoned, smoking a joint probably also won’t lead to any measurable long-term deficits.

Interestingly, the scientists found that marijuana seems to induce a state of hyper-priming, in which the reach of semantic priming extends to distantly related concepts. As a result, we hear “dog” and think of nouns that, in more sober circumstances, would seem rather disconnected, such as “leash” or “hair.” This state of hyper-priming helps explain why cannabis has been so often used as a creative fuel, as it seems to make the brain better at detecting those remote associations that lead to radically new ideas.

> Marijuana Makes You Stupid? | Wired Magazine

10 Smartest Stoners Who Admitted To Smoking Weed

10 Smartest Stoners Who Admitted To Smoking Weed | Third Monk image 7

You’ve probably seen those “Above The Influence” anti-drug commercials in which they show worst scenario outcomes to people smoking weed. Really depressing shit. They always make the person out to be an accidental murderer, or homeless, jobless, friendless. No prospects of anything positive on the horizon. Well, here’s a list of the smartest stoners who ever admitted to smoking weed.

 

Steve Jobs

It’s been reported the Apple co-founder smoked pot and took LSD in his first semester at Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1972. After dropping out from the school, he’s went on to become one of the most successful and wealthiest people in America. In 1984, he received the National Medal of Technology from President Ronald Reagan. In 2007, Fortune Magazine named him the most powerful person in business and then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inducted him into the California Hall of Fame. Fortune also named him CEO of the Decade in 2009 while Forbes ranked him #57 on their list of the World’s Most Powerful People that same year. The Financial Times named Jobs its person of the year for 2010. I’m not sure, but I don’t think you can have those kind of accolades being dumb. Plus, the guy’s a Beatles fan, dated Joan Baez, and sold one of his houses to Bono from U2. That’s some hip, hip company, my friend.

 

Carl Sagan

Astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, pothead. It’s hard to argue for pot slowing you down when you look at Carl Sagan’s record. Apparently a confirmed and admitted stoner, among his many achievements are a Pulitzer Prize, an Emmy, a best-selling novel, as well as more than 500 science papers and articles. He was a founding member of the Planetary Society, and he won a pipe load of scientific awards.  Hardly surprising, he is said to have believed in the validity of stoned insights. I believe in them too, it’s just that Carl’s revolved around the origins of the cosmos, not which bagel store is open at 3 in the morning.

 

Stephen Jay Gould

Paleontologist, biologist, science historian. Most famous scientific contribution was the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which says that most evolution is marked by long periods of stability. Kind of like most of us after a good bong hit. One of the most influential and best read writers of popular science, Gould became an advocate for medical marijuana following his diagnosis with cancer. He claimed it had an “important effect” on his recovery. He also testified in court to the benefits of marijuana, and is quoted as saying “it is beyond my comprehension that any humane person would withhold such a beneficial substance from people in such great need simple because others use it for different purposes.”Gould used pot to help retain his health for twenty years, the same period during which he wrote The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, not what you might call an insignificant work.

 

Francis Crick

Won a Nobel Prize for figuring out the double-helix structure of DNA. Rumor has it that he was on acid at the time. Crick wasn’t the first to see twin twisted monsters coming at him during an acid plunge, but he was the first to recognize as an important scientific discovery. As a founding member of Soma, a legalize cannabis group, he also experimented pot, which he believed helped to remove the filters of abstract thought.

 

Margaret Mead

Ok, so it’s probably not totally accurate to describe Margaret Mead as a pothead, but she was a major proponent for marijuana, so we’re going to widen the definition a bit. When she died in 1978, Mead was possibly the most famous Anthropologist on the planet. Time had named her Mother of the World in 1969. She authored or co-authored around 40 books, received 28 honorary doctorates, and was President of both the American Anthropological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Most famously, she testified before Congress on the legalization of marijuana. She testified on lots of stuff, but it’s this one everyone remembers. Afterwards, she was called a dirty old lady, crazy, and no doubt many other things.

 

Andrew Weil

Had a mushroom named after him. Do we need to know any more? Well, yes, we do. Although he looks like he’s been binging on an all-night high, Dr. Weil has medical and biology degrees from Harvard, is a naturopath, as well as a widely acknowledged expert on medicinal herbs, alternative medicines, and mind and body interactions. He was on the cover of Time, has written a bunch of books, and used to write for High Times. He talks about the advantages of stoned thinking, as well as an innate need to alter consciousness. Is that him or us? Whatever, it’s clearly worked for him.

 

Kary Mullis

Another Nobel Prize winner, another stoner. Mullis tried heavier drugs than just pot. He invented the polymerase chain reaction, which if it’s slipped your mind, is the one that allows duplication of parts of DNA. He says acid helped him to develop it, perhaps along with pot, which he allegedly smoked just before his first trip. While most of us have trouble figuring out how a chair works when we’re high, this guy was working out how to mimic nature.

 

Oliver Sacks

If you’ve seen “Awakenings” with Robin Williams, you already know something of Oliver Sacks’ work. He’s a neurologist, the film based on his book of the same name. He also wrote The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Sacks is an Oxford graduate and professor of neurology at Columbia Medical Center. He’s been referred to as the poet laureate of medicine, and received numerous awards and honorary doctorates in the field of neurological science. Not bad for a man who’s admitted to using marijuana on a more that recreational level, seeing it as a potential gateway to other minds and other consciousnesses.

 

Richard Feynman

Physicist who helped design the atomic bomb. Well, nobody said anyone on this list was wise, just smarter than average. Feynman used pot to enhance his out of body experiences while in a sensory deprivation tank. When he came out, he won a Nobel Prize for his theory of quantum electrodynamics.

 

Sergey Brin

He has a BS from the University of Maryland, a MS from Stanford and took PhD courses at Stanford before putting that on hiatus to co-found Google with Larry Page. His dad’s a math professor at the University of Maryland. His mom’s a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. His wife, Ann Wojcicki, is a biotech analyst who graduated with a B.S. in biology from Yale in 1996. She and Brin are working with leading researchers to help doctors, patients, and researchers analyze the human genome data and try to repair “bugs” as if DNA were HTML. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, which is “among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer” and received the Marconi Foundation Prize, the “Highest Award in Engineering”. I can only imagine the first time he described DNA as HTML to someone, he/she must’ve been like, “are you high?” To which, he responded, “No! Why? You holdin’?

> Smarted Weed Smokers | Co-Ed Magazine

Deaths from Marijuana Vs 17 FDA Approved Pill Drugs (Study)

Deaths from Marijuana Vs 17 FDA Approved Pill Drugs (Study) | Third Monk

Much of the medical marijuana discussion has focused on the safety of marijuana compared to the safety of FDA-approved drugs. ProCon.org sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to find the number of deaths caused by marijuana compared to the number of deaths caused by 17 FDA-approved drugs. Twelve of these FDA-approved drugs were chosen because they are commonly prescribed in place of medical marijuana, while the remaining five FDA-approved drugs were randomly selected because they are widely used and recognized by the general public.

Jan. 1, 1997 was chosen as the starting date of the study because it is the beginning of the first year following the Nov. 1996 approval of the first state medical marijuana laws (such as California’s Proposition 215).

Summary of Deaths by Drug Classification (Jan. 1, 1997 to June 30, 2005)
DRUG CLASSIFICATION
Specific
Drugs per
Category
Primary
Suspect of the Death
Secondary Suspect(Contributing to death)
Total Deaths Reported
1/1/97 – 6/30/05
A. MARIJUANA
also known as: Cannabis sativa L

Marijuana
Cannabis
Cannabinoids

0
279
279
B. ANTI-EMETICS
(used to treat vomiting)
196
429
625
C. ANTI-SPASMODICS
(used to treat muscle spasms)
118
56
174
D. ANTI-PSYCHOTICS
(used to treat psychosis)
1,593
702
2,295
E. OTHER POPULAR DRUGS
(used to treat various conditions including ADD, depression, narcolepsy, erectile dysfunction, and pain)
8,101
492
8,593
F. TOTALS of A-E
Number
of Drugs
in Total
Primary
Suspect of the Death
Secondary Suspect(Contributing to death)
Total Deaths Reported
1/1/97 – 6/30/05
  • TOTAL DEATHS FROM MARIJUANA
1
0
279
279
  • TOTAL DEATHS FROM 17 FDA-APPROVED DRUGS
17
10,008
1,679
11,687

 

> Marijuana vs Pills Deaths | Procon.org

15 Things You Should Know About Marijuana (Infographic)

15 Things You Should Know About Marijuana (Infographic) | Third Monk image 2

If you are anything like me, you love infographics because they make lots of information extremely easy to read and digest. So when the team at Term Life Insurance came to me with the opportunity to work with them on a marijuana infographic I HAD to take the opportunity. So after lots of research and blunts smoked, here is an awesome marijuana infographic that shows 15 things about marijuana that you should know. I even learned a thing or two, this plant is even more amazing than I thought. Enjoy. – Hail Mary Jane

Marijuana Doesn’t Harm Lungs?

Marijuana Doesn't Harm Lungs? | Third Monk

As much stoners as would like to ignore it, the thought of marijuana negatively affecting their lungs can sometimes be worrisome. Using a vaporizer regularly will put you on the safe side but all that smoke from other methods has to fuck you up right? A 20 year long study comparing the lung functions of marijuana and tobacco smokers produced some good news

The analyses showed pot didn’t appear to harm lung function, but cigarettes did. Cigarette smokers’ test scores worsened steadily during the study. Smoking marijuana as often as one joint daily for seven years, or one joint weekly for 20 years was not linked with worse scores. Very few study participants smoked more often than that.

Too much of anything can be destructive, you just have to be aware of your body and your habits. Don’t expect to have super lungs if you smoke 20 blunts a day.

> Marijuana Doesn’t Harm Lung Functions, study found | Yahoo News

Joe Rogan on the Marijuana and Paranoia Relationship (Video)

Joe Rogan on the Marijuana and Paranoia Relationship (Video) | Third Monk image 2

Getting baked doesn’t create positive or paranoid emotions, it just enhances whatever mood you’re in. If you have issues that you refuse to deal with, you might want to avoid marijuana, because it will bring them to the surface.

Being paranoid is a good thing. The experience of being paranoid when you smoke weed is to get you to look at yourself. It’s to get you to look at life. You’re not always looking at it as clearly as you could. Those jolts of perception you misinterpret as paranoia, what you’re really doing is just dealing with information that’s already there. – Joe Rogan

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