Smoking weed, makes false memories:

Smoking weed, makes false memories:

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Must be it😉

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@sonhouse said
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-cannabis-susceptibility-false-memories.html

It makes sense, when you are high, sometimes you don't know hallucination from reality.

Personal experience😉 But hey, I survived the 60's AND 70's😉
This part is really interesting. Apparently, they found immediate effects on memory that completely went away over time. The placebo group caught up because memories are not static. So really, the conclusion should be that cannabis just changes the kinetics of forming false memories.
These differences between groups (cannabis vs. placebo) were restricted to the immediate condition and disappeared at follow-up 1 wk later, indicating that THC-induced impairments might be most detrimental to retrieval. However, by inspecting the mean scores, it becomes clear that the cannabis group did not necessarily improve over time, but, rather, the placebo group worsened at follow-up, thus performing more similarly to the cannabis group after 1 wk had passed. This is in line with research showing that memory decays over time and that people are more prone to be influenced by misinformation with increasing length between event and postevent misinformation because they are less likely to detect discrepancies (discrepancy-detection principle; refs. 21 and 25). Due to the placebo group deteriorating with time, no statistical differences in memory performance were detected at follow-up.

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@wildgrass said
This part is really interesting. Apparently, they found immediate effects on memory that completely went away over time. The placebo group caught up because memories are not static. So really, the conclusion should be that cannabis just changes the kinetics of forming false memories.
These differences between groups (cannabis vs. placebo) were restricted to the immed ...[text shortened]... ting with time, no statistical differences in memory performance were detected at follow-up.
I've read the paper in the mean-time. I wonder if they've measured what they think they have. There's no doubt that cannabis interferes with short term memory, but does it actually induce false memories, or is what is actually happening that they can't remember what happened and are more agreeable while under the influence of THC?

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I was a weed smoker and stopped about a month ago and have already seen good chess results.
Once my rating settles down I imagine I gained 100 rating points from quitting weed.
Off topic I know but weed is bad after all is said and done.
If I could quit beer (not happening) I bet I would be a solid 1800 🤔

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@pachman said
I was a weed smoker and stopped about a month ago and have already seen good chess results.
Once my rating settles down I imagine I gained 100 rating points from quitting weed.
Off topic I know but weed is bad after all is said and done.
If I could quit beer (not happening) I bet I would be a solid 1800 🤔
Is this here or playing over the board? OTB requires a good memory, practically everyone's had the thing where you see a move, realize it's bad, look around for another one and after looking at various possibilities remember the move, think "Oh yes" and play it forgetting it's bad. The risk of that here is much lower.

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Just online.
Usually 1600 but no weed has me closer to 1700.
The beer keeps me down lol

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@sonhouse said
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-cannabis-susceptibility-false-memories.html

It makes sense, when you are high, sometimes you don't know hallucination from reality.

Personal experience😉 But hey, I survived the 60's AND 70's😉
so is this a defense for criminal lawyers to use when someone alleges date rape ?

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@mister-moggy said
so is this a defense for criminal lawyers to use when someone alleges date rape ?
The faulty memory is of details, not the overall narrative. So no, this won't work as a defence to rape.

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but the "detail" was when she said "yes" and only on the next day did she "forget" she said yes.

women, like men, are sometimes spiteful, even evil, reactionary and duplicitous. many a man has been lied about by a bad woman. some of those men have gone to prison for these lies.

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another false rape claim by a bad woman.

"A Nevada judge has ruled a woman defamed former casino mogul Steve Wynn when she reported to Las Vegas police in 2018 that Wynn raped her in Chicago in the early 1970s and that she gave birth to his daughter in a gas station restroom.

Clark County District Court Judge Ronald Israel, who heard the case in Las Vegas without a jury, on Monday awarded Wynn the “nominal” damage amount of $1 that the billionaire former head of Wynn Resorts and his attorneys sought from Halina Kuta.

“I find that Mr. Wynn’s testimony is credible and Ms. Kuta’s testimony lacks veracity in numerous areas,” the judge said. He declared that Kuta, who represented herself in the trial, “knowingly made a false report” to police."

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So a woman who cries rape is automatically suspect. Got it. A man could NEVER be that low. Got it.