Fortunately, weed never dinged the Royal Idiot ... nosiree ... not one teeny little bit!
Posted on 12/16/2013 9:17:13 AM PST by Zakeet
Teenage pot smokers could be damaging brain structures critical to memory and reasoning, according to new research that found changes in the brains of heavy users.
Research released Monday in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin showed the brains of young heavy marijuana users were altered in so-called sub-cortical regions — primitive structures that are part of the memory and reasoning circuits. And young people with such alterations performed worse on memory tests than non-using controls, despite the fact that the heavy users had not indulged for more than two years, on average, before the testing.
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When the groups were given four tests of working memory, like remembering sequences of numbers they’d seen, heavy users, with or without schizophrenia, performed worse than healthy controls and non-using schizophrenics.
“We saw poor performance in the marijuana groups…” Smith explained. “And the younger somebody started using, the more abnormal they looked.”
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Fortunately, weed never dinged the Royal Idiot ... nosiree ... not one teeny little bit!
No need to qualify it with “Teen”.
Just “Pot use” would be fine.
Rather odd how there has to be a study in 2013 to say this when it’s been patently obvious for decades.
How long have they been trying to find bad things to say about pot? Like forever.
Maybe they should better report on the trail of death and suffering left behind by all the SSRIs and vaccines.
Potheads are the smartest people on the planet.
Just ask any of them. They’ll tell you....
This is not new news. MJ causes memory loss and psychosis - the severity depends on the person. Those that smoke weed generally vigorously deny this.
The Choom Gang Prez is bored all the time? Wonder why?
I’ve believed this for a very long time.
Hey man, weed is harmless. Like I was telling a guy the other day, I said, uh, I said, uh, whoa, what was I just sayin’? Uh,huh,huh, cool.
The symptoms listed in the article coincide with recently reported US youth scoring poorly in math skills which are usually developed in the mid-teen years. It isn't a coincidence.
¡ The Gateway Drug !
Hardly news. Haven’t known a single pothead who didn’t seem to mentally slow down and start peppering conversations with endless “uh...uh...uh’s.” And, at the same time, consistently consider themselves intellectually ‘above’ everyone they encounter.
Hey, actually, that does sort of sound like Obama, come to think of it.
duh.
anyone with half a brain who has witnessed pot smokers knew this.
That’s just nasty.
"Dude....wait...whut?"
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