These same studies with the same results have been going on for decades.
This study is just....well, I can’t think of the word right now.
That’s encouraging considering it won’t be long before they’ll be the ones changing my bedpan at Shady Acres.
“...but ah didn’t inhale!”
It is all too apparent which of my students smoke too much and which don’t. Either the kids don’t realize how obvious it is which of them smoke, or they simply don’t care about the precipitous loss of IQ.
This is nothing new, people. Anybody with half a brain would know that filling your head with chemicals while the brain is still in development will result in abnormal or retarded development. I will remind you geniuses that the study focuses on ADOLESCENT pot use (abuse, really) and therefore has no bearing on the legalization question, as nobody is making it legal for minors. In fact, the delicacy of adolescent brain development is such that a person with common sense would expect similar results if alcohol or tobacco use, or ritalin for that matter, were tracked in the same manner. The lack of simple logical thinking on these threads makes me believe that most of you were stoners when you were kids.
Carmen
“The dope that’s being smoked my friend is you!”
I always state that no psych college textbook I had to read (pretty recent) was pro-legalizing marijuana and they were liberal.
Other than that the first question that came to me is when does the brain fully develop?
“In a recent paper in the Journal of Neuroscience (link is external), investigators described a study in which they monitored white matter changes in 103 healthy human subjects, ages 5 to 32 years. For each subject, they imaged the brain at least twice with an average period of four years between scans. Some tracts, such as sections of the corpus callosum, appeared to reach maturity during adolescence, but, in about 50 % of the older subjects, the association fiber tracts continued to mature. These fiber tracts may be important for the performance of complex cognitive tasks. Does the development of these pathways vary with experience and training, and can these tracts continue to grow throughout life?”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/eyes-the-brain/201108/when-is-the-brain-fully-mature
Then I wondered if the meds they use for mental illness has this side effect? The anti-boy med ritalin has long term effects on the amount of white matter. So, hey, all those jokes about men being daffy are because they are too dang boyish when kids.
fer sure.
this explains Jeb Bush.
I know a guy who has been smoking pot since 1967.Talk about a wasted life.
Guy next door ,young and in his mid thirties ,big pot user.
Looks like his head is always in the clouds.Talks slow,moves slow.
I’ll throw this out there...
Maybe people are more inclined to smoke pot if they have a lower IQ (?), smart people stay away. Would you not get the same statistics - people who used pot a lot since youth have a lower IQ?
The extant evidence base draws on case–control studies of recruited cannabis users and comparison subjects.
So the "Participants were members of the Dunedin Study, a prospective study of a birth cohort of 1,037 individuals followed from birth (1972/1973) to age 38 y."...were the comparison subjects, not the actual cannabis users.
The rest of "the study" should be just as entertaining.
Oh, BTW...Edited by Michael I. Posner, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, and approved July 30, 2012 (received for review April 23, 2012)
Why did it take 3 years for Forbes to write this article?
Accumulating evidence suggests that long-term, heavy cannabis use may cause enduring neuropsychological impairment...
Oh yeah, keep those stereotypical comments coming WODdies.
....and makes them better Democrats.
Those damn models!
So why the hoopla?
This explains the ‘quality’ of the arguments in favor of pot legalization.
Um, it is called “dope” for a reason...
This is sooooo true. When I get together with my old friends, the ones who smoked pot every day in high school and college have ZERO memory. And not just of those times. Their memories just suck.
And there was a study out today that young people with mania mostly had their first incidence of mania right after smoking pot.
It’s not all fun and cool.