Posted on 02/11/2015 3:15:57 PM PST by Mount Athos
A study more than thirty years in the making found that smoking marijuana permanently lowers intelligence, or IQ. Frequent pot smokers (even those who had given up marijuana) tended to have deficits in memory, concentration, and overall IQ. The reduction in IQ for those who smoked pot heavily prior to age 18 was most pronounced: an average of eight points. An eight point reduction in IQ is enough to have a significant, negative impact upon your life. To put it into context, consider that individuals with an IQ of 110 have an average net worth of $71,000 and individuals with an IQ of 120 have an average net worth of $128,000.
What’s significant about this research is that it was a longitudinal study: researchers followed and tested subjects from birth through to age 38, noting when and how frequently they picked up habits like drug use. Previous studies scrutinized marijuana use at a single point in time, which failed to eliminate the possibility that people with lower IQs are more likely to smoke pot. The longitudinal research provided a baseline IQ score for all subjects, which revealed changes in IQ scores as they picked up new habits, such as smoking pot.
By following subjects for decades, the researchers were able to measure the lasting effects of adolescent marijuana use (even after subjects gave up smoking pot). These effects last because the teenage brain is still developing at a rapid pace; myriad new pathways for thinking are formed during this period while others are weeded out. When teenagers expose their brains to a damaging substance like marijuana, the effects aren’t just drastic…they’re permanently etched into the brain. The reduction in IQ from smoking marijuana regularly was much greater for those who started smoking as teenagers
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huh?
Exhibit # 1 is in the White House.
D’oh , Man !!
ROFL
As Private Pyle was wont to say: “Surprise, Surprise”
That’s the reason why there are so many democrats.
Is that why we’ve called them “dopers” all these years with no study required?
GEORGE SOROS....THE BIG MONEY MAN behind the push to LEGALIZE dope.....loves it..
more dumb young....easily lead voters...
voila..... Barack Obama..... Elected 2008..and 2012
Anyone who has ever met a pothead knows this. I knew a girl who was filling out apartment lease applications at 12 for her father who couldn’t see well, by 35 she didn’t know the difference between a credit card and a debit card.
It took a study!?
So?
Studies show that drug laws lead to wrong doors being kicked in, pets and innocent people being shot, property being stolen under color of law, and prison beds being filled with non-violent offenders.
Between the threat to civil rights and stupid teenagers I’ll settle for stupid teenagers.
Dude!! Wait, what?
All you’ve got to do is know a pothead to know this.
Between the threat to civil rights and stupid teenagers I’ll settle for stupid teenagers.
Whoever wrote that should be severely punished.
Unfortunately, I’ve been saying this for years, but the potheads never believe it.
Anybody who has ever met anyone that has abused any drug, food, sex act, never had a skilled job, government assistance and even over indulged the internet at a young age has a lower IQ.
Well this explains a lot about our current batch of old hippies in charge of the US congress today.
When I was 16 & 17 I tried pot once a bunch of times, and 20 years later some of the folks who I used to smoke it with are still smoking.
When I run in to them from time to time they look 10 years older than the rest of us and just not the kind of people you can have a conversation with. Might as well be talking to a wall.
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