🏈 Alabama running backs Kenyan Drake, Altee Tenpenny spend Thursday practice at study table

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"All these players need to learn that they have a responsibility and an obligation to do the right thing for themselves," Saban says.



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[alabama mike]

I wonder if they are skipping classes or in danger of being ineligibile? I can understand missing a class in certain situations but if a player is missing more than 2 or 3 times in a semester, then there is a pattern and a problem. You are getting a free education, GO TO CLASS!

 

[TheChief]

One side effect of marijuana use is decrease in motivation. All of you still if favor of legalization and still think there's nothing wrong with it, what say you? Think Tennpenny is still motivated? I don't get making a kid go to class and letting him be arrested and still, STILL letting him stay on the team.

 

[TheChief]

Altee must be some kind of player. If he was going to be a bench warmer, he'd be at home washing cars or selling drugs there.

 

[BamaCore]

It's a bit of a stretch to blame someone's laziness on marijuana. Not gonna lie, it can make you a little more docile but I've never once had it "demotivate" me from my goals during the days I've used it. I hardly think pointing out that a lazy kid who happens to smoke weed missing enough class to get in trouble with his football coach is a strong argument against legalization of marijuana.

 

[planomateo]

You'd think these two would be doing everything they could to tow the line.

I stand by my comments earlier, yes it should be legalized. There are far more worse things that are legal (via prescription) or via a bar/package store. You don't think that this one incident is going to change peoples view on legalization of marijuana. Its not like I woke up last night and decided pot should be legalized...its happened over many years, so I don't think my opinion will change quickly either.

 

[TheChief]

New Harvard study out this week. Plano, you seem like a reasonable guy. You ought to check it out.

 

[BamaCore]

New Harvard study out this week. Plano, you seem like a reasonable guy. You ought to check it out.

The study is interesting. I, personally, am not surprised if there are negative side effects to marijuana use. In response to the study I really can't put it any better than Gregory Gerdeman, a neuropharmacologist from Eckerd.

"If you're getting money from the drug czar's office, that money's not going to continue if you don't end up publishing something that at least supports the general story of the danger of drug abuse," Gerdeman said.
He said it doesn't surprise him that heavy pot smoking might make it difficult for students to reach their intellectual potential. But still, he said, "if it were my child, even with this study, I'm more comfortable with young people having a casual marijuana habit than drinking regularly."

Its just my two cents. If we're going to allow alcohol, then marijuana should be legal as well.

 

[TerryP]

New Harvard study out this week. Plano, you seem like a reasonable guy. You ought to check it out.

Have you read the results of their study? How it's interpreted is largely on the person reading.

One of the points of the research was the conclusion that adolescents shouldn't be smoking marijuana. Okay, there's a shocking finding.

It was a terribly small study in terms of sample size, 20 users, and none reported problems with work, school, legal issues, relationship problems, etc. The study did reveal the use affected an area of the brain that's used for emotional processing, motivation reward. But none of the users reported problems in those specific areas?

These brain areas are central for motivation and these findings to help support the theory marijuana use may lead to amotivation. Key word found there; theory.

One professor at Harvard (study came from Northwestern, FWIW) said "we need to study this more, we need to investigate how these abnormalities relate to function."

You know Chief, this is the second time I've noticed you throw the term reasonable in conversations about marijuana use; using it in a sense that views opposite yours lack reason. I sense you've made your mind up about the use and are closed minded to views that disagree with yours.
[MENTION=12433]planomateo[/MENTION] viewpoint? It's valid. Reasonable, in fact.

 

[planomateo]

New Harvard study out this week. Plano, you seem like a reasonable guy. You ought to check it out.

I like to think I'm very reasonable on most things, I'm liberal and conservative on my views, just depends on which ones they are.

And yes, I saw it earlier in the week, haven't actually seen the details yet, just a few paragraphs talking about a new study that suggests there are some long term effects that get worse the more your smoke. Doesn't really surprise me, keep in mind I never said it was healthy or didn't have any bad side effects Now to flip to the other side, it wouldn't surprise me the least bit if this finding has some political/social momentum behind it. I'd love to read the study to see more of what they were doing, how they were doing it, etc. The older I get the more I want to read the details before I believe what the AP tells me. Also, looking at who funded the study helps understand the objective of the study.

Here is an article that talks about the study from a different perspective, http://www.policymic.com/articles/8...ehind-that-marijuana-changes-your-brain-study, worth a read too.

Like I said earlier, there are plenty of things that are legal that have bad side effects. I'll end with, getting hit in the head is detrimental to ones health...should it be illegal?

 

[TerryP]

And yes, I saw it earlier in the week, haven't actually seen the details yet, just a few paragraphs talking about a new study that suggests there are some long term effects that get worse the more your smoke. Doesn't really surprise me, keep in mind I never said it was healthy or didn't have any bad side effects Now to flip to the other side, it wouldn't surprise me the least bit if this finding has some political/social momentum behind it. I'd love to read the study to see more of what they were doing, how they were doing it, etc. The older I get the more I want to read the details before I believe what the AP tells me. Also, looking at who funded the study helps understand the objective of the study.

Here is an article that talks about the study from a different perspective, http://www.policymic.com/articles/8...ehind-that-marijuana-changes-your-brain-study, worth a read too.

I read four different reports and none of them mentioned this:

The experiment is a launching point for further research. It was conducted with 40 people from Boston, ages 18-25. Half of the participants used marijuana at least once a week but weren't dependent on the drug, and the other half weren't marijuana smokers. The smokers in the study, the experimental group, started smoking between the ages of 14 and 18 years old (16.6 years old with a standard deviation of two years). They were hooked up to an MRI, and Gilman and others found that the experimental group had structural differences in the nucleus accumbens and the amygdala regions of their brains (which relate to motivation and emotion).

You're so right about taking into account where the report is coming from.

 

[bama alum]

Well, they're both playing today. They're not having the impact Yeldon and Henry are, but that could be because they're on the white offense instead of the red (OL).

 

[psychojoe]

Sadly, Drake lost a fumble again today.