Posted on 02/01/2016 12:39:58 PM PST by Mariner
New research published today in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine confirms what many of us have suspected for some time: If you smoke a lot of weed -- like a lot of it -- it can potentially do permanent damage to your short-term memory.
Professor Reto Auer of the University of Lausanne led a team of researchers who examined data on the marijuana habits of nearly 3,400 Americans over a 25-year period. At the end of the study period, the subjects took a battery of tests designed to assess cognitive abilities -- memory, focus, ability to make quick decisions, etc.
The study found that people who smoked marijuana on daily basis for a long period of time -- five years or more -- had poorer verbal memory in middle age than people who didn't smoke, or who smoked less. This association remained even after researchers controlled for a variety of other factors known to affect cognitive performance -- such as age, education, use of other substances and depression.
Auer and his team measured lifetime marijuana exposure in a fantastic new unit of measurement they call "marijuana-years." Essentially, if you smoke pot every day for a year, that equals one marijuana-year of use. Ditto if you smoke every other day for two years, or once a week for seven years.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
It affects your memory 35 years later.
Dave’s not here. :-)
Yet they still can remember their DU passwords.
Exhibit A
I saw this and wanted to respond but forgot what I wanted to say.
Never mind
good one!
I’ll drink to that.
Ummmm.....Snickers. Now I have the munchies. Oh, wait.
And I thought, "That poor man,"
Yeah, alcohol is great for you...and society as well.
Get drunk everyday for five years straight and let me know how that works out.
You become Bob Marley
I smoke two joints in the morning
I smoke two joints at night
I smoke two joints in the afternoon
It makes me feel all right
I smoke two joints in time of peace
And two in time of war
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints,
And then I smoke two more
Daddy he once told me,
“Son, you be hard workin’ man”
And momma she once told me,
“Son, you do the best you can”
Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
“Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head”
Whoa rock me to the night
Ja say
For that they just look at their DU tattoo.
Get a 2.69 GPA throughout college?
But what about all the distraught mothers on the evening news who need medical marijuana for their babies?
Don’t you realize - its a MIRACLE DRUG????
/s
I dont drink and dont advocate drinking.
I am just saying that hard-core alcoholics start the day with alcohol, but a lot of *normal* pot smokers think nothing of having a joint in the morning.
Wake and Bake
It is considered an amusing life-style. The hard-core alkies tend to try to hide their alcoholism.
Wake and Bakers bask in the glow of how cool they are.
It worked really well. The problem is that stoners don’t usually have that “Wait until 5:00” thing going on. The minute the feet hit the floor, it’s time for a bowl.
So.....maybe Willie Nelson isn’t a tax cheat, he just like...forgot...to pay hi his taxes?
It’s actually made from the oil and has no intoxicating effects.
And then I smoke two more"
Nice turn of phrase...
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