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Emails more damaging than cannabis

23. April 2005 • MarkDilley
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Are the police going to start busting Blackberry users?

Those distracted by incoming email, phone calls and text messages saw a 10-point fall in their IQ, more than twice that found in studies of the impact of smoking cannabis, according to the researchers.

via vnunet.com

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1. That must be why they call them “crackberries”
      —Leah    Apr. 23 '05 - 09:02PM    #
   
2. http://cms.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20030806-000010.html
   
   maybe its only damaging for some people and not others.
      —anon.    Apr. 23 '05 - 09:40PM    #
   
3. http://cms.psychologytoday.com/conditions/narcissistic.html
   
   oops. Pot may be very bad for these folks too.
   
   Turns out “addiction” is a complex term. No blanket can be thrown over a substance to determine it more or les “damaging” tha other behavior, because its all dependant on a set of factors, most especially the underlying psychological and psychiatric conditions of the user.
   
   At least according to Psychology Today.
      —anon.    Apr. 23 '05 - 09:56PM    #
   
4. So anon. (if you’re the anon. I’m thinking of), are you gonna tell us about the addictive power of hydroponically grown Blackberries?
      —David Boyle    Apr. 24 '05 - 04:50PM    #