Help send a Newschooler to Space!

I have 20 skulls and follows right now. 40 more and I'll be top 15! I know NS can do that and then some, 100 skulls / follows and I would be top 3.

This could be a life dream coming true for me and I know you guys can help make that happen!

Your kindness will be reciprocated

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"I suffered a TBI (traumatic brain injury) in my early teens. I started smoking weed and noticed it helped."

dunno why, but I find this funny.

VinnieF"I suffered a TBI (traumatic brain injury) in my early teens. I started smoking weed and noticed it helped."

dunno why, but I find this funny.

Hey to be honest it sounds funny because we were all conditioned as little kids that evil reefer kills brain cells.
I just pulled the first non pot related article on google, a quick search of TBI and cannabis will give you all the information you need to know.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25264643


In reality cannabis is neuroprotective and has multiple routes in which it helps TBI / concussions. Weeds anti-inflammatory aspects are very well document. Also there is some research suggesting that brain injury is actually the result of the autoimmune system malfunction. After a hit a protein, s100b I believe is released. That protein normally resides in the brain but cause you just knocked your dome piece s100b has the potential to cross the blood brain barrier. Since your immune system is not used to seeing s100b outside the brain it launches an attack much like that on a foreign pathogen. Problem is your immune system fights the protein all the back to the breach of the blood brain barrier it originated from. Problem is the attack doesn't stop at the barrier and now enters the brain. Cannabis has proven to be a very effective immune system regulator.


If you have any more question I'd be more than happy to answer. (I'm by no means an expert, but have a huge interest in neuroscience due to my TBI)

Tbh I would rather donate to the hub so they can make porn in space.



But I will vote for you anyways

I don't understand what this has to do with space!

Spagett+Tbh I would rather donate to the hub so they can make porn in space.

I mean if I'm already up there...
And thanks! First NS'er to vote. You the man. If I win I will be in contact with the hub. After all if my tickets already paid for that cuts production cost in half am I right? LOL

But I will vote for you anyways

TheBigAppleI don't understand what this has to do with space!

1st prize is a trip to space! Or $200,000... like I'm penniless right now but I'd rather be broke for a little longer and have a lifelong dream that I more than likely won't get another shot at.

Also the other prizes are very cool, a lot of digi-fab equipment such as 3d printers, cnc mills, and so on. Which is perfect for me (working on starting small scale micro-manufacturing gigs)

What happened to night summer NS? Only 60 users online? :( I remember there was never less than 200 when I posted a lot.

Da_CONKhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25264643

This is now my NS pet peeve. Everyone is posting ncbi links to abstracts where the last sentence, which is usually the results, supports whatever they want to say and bam, there's a scientific paper behind it therefore they're right. For one, most NS'ers can't decipher a paper other than the last part of the abstract. I hope if anybody had math classes they at least get the P values and confidence intervals. Not only that, but you can't even access that paper unless you have access through some other method like your school.

At that, if I'm reading it correctly all you can get out of the abstract is the following - out of 446 people who fit the criteria, 82 of them pulled a positive thc test. 44 people died, 42 of those people were HTC- and 2 were THC+. So out of the 82 THC+ people, only two died. Just based on what I can see in the abstract, I'm not inclined to believe that 42/44 peoples deaths were somehow related to their lack of THC or that the THC protected the 80/82 in the THC+ group.

Things I want to know before I agree with the way they did it or not:
How exactly did they detect THC, what was 'positive'
the exact nature of the injuries
was everyone treated equally? did some go on to rehab, use other drugs, do other shit? there's loads of things they could have left out or purposefully not included.
cause of death?

I might change my mind if I could see the data but like most people I can't, and most people aren't capable of arguing over the data anyway. Truth is I could get the paper if I wanted to but meh.

Also OP I'm not trying to attack you or THC science (as long as it's real science) and whatnot , I voted for you to go to space too.

Personally if I were the one running the show here, I'd liek to see some mice be given the same kind of tbi and divide them up into all the appropriate groups and then when they're all dead you can cut up the brains and do all sorts of microscopy and I guess MRI's while they're alive.

also if you've never seen a mouse MRI machine before, it's pretty funny. But this cat looks funnier