Smoking marijuana as a teenager lowers IQ for LIFE, scientists warn

Daily Mail ^ | June 6, 2014 | Daily Mail Reporter

[AustralianConservative]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2650631/Smoking-marijuana-teenager-lowers-IQ-LIFE-scientists-warn.html

[ansel12]

How would anyone notice?

[jonascord]

This goes a long way towards explaining Obama’s election...

[C210N]

"The panel looked into areas where little research had been previously conducted..."

Does this include the possibility that teenagers with lower IQs tend to smoke more marijuana than teenagers with higher IQs?

[Cincinatus]

"Dude! That can't be right!"

[AustralianConservative]

Haha. Hard to argue otherwise.

[AustralianConservative]

Love the photo. It says so much.

[lee martell]

A self perpetuating process of erosion, is what you get. Each generation dumber and more violent than the one before. Generation Reptilian!

[jobim]

Did Coloradoans take this into consideration? This is child abuse on a massive scale.

[Ken H]

Each generation dumber and more violent than the one before.

Violent crime has plunged since the mid-90's. The murder rate is at record lows.

http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

[DB]

Most “Smart” teenagers aren’t all that smart at that age.

I’d guess emotional issues plays a larger roll than IQ on those who do and do not try pot.

The brains chemistry can be pretty messed up just due to puberty.

[wardaddy]

I smoked weed from 1971 to 1984...heavy use

My IQ was tested 1975 in Spanish Fort Alabama at the request of my school just shy of 150

A score considered near genius once.

I graduated deans list last two years at Ole Miss when my live in ...rather gorgeous...southern belle girl friend used her innate skills to make me use my potential in class.....I think I made 2 Bs out of the last 30 or so courses..the rest As...one B was translating Cervantes...you haven’t lived if you haven’t had that pleasure

I scored 703 old score on LSAT and could have attended all but the top dozen law schools had I wished

I don’t advocate pot use for kids but I sure don’t share this bogeyman attitude over it many here who have never once smoked it have

But I don’t consider myself the Matthew McConahey pot advocate of FR...Im ambivalent....my girls smoked some and I know my boys will try it....I push restraint and for sure no chronic use....pretty much what I say here

One difference is down south most pot smokers are like the rest of us...conservative

I know probably over 100 pot smokers from young adults to nearly 80

98% are not libs

Pot can be harmful but it doesn’t make everyone life long dumb..I don’t buy that

Drug studies are like most science today...agenda driven....they always have been...think fish babies

Its a strange time for pot...I personally think serious decrim over legalization makes more sense....for many reasons

To me the biggest harm of marijuana is it can stunt ambition and drive....even sex drive...in some folks in heavy use.....didn’t do that to me other than being stoned is conducive to procrastinating the mundane.

I’m convinced of this but if they limit use to evening or free time like responsible smokers do this abates...but it can sure cause complacency

My IQ is now around 137-140
Two open heart off pump surgeries.

One serious head wound.

Empty sella syndrome

Nearing 60

Crappy arrhythmia

Stuff that wears down brain function directly or indirectly

It can be a curse....timelines and chronology events from barely significant on from about 1962....I remember EVERYTHING.

and I often jump ahead in conversations...which is irritating...ask my dear wife

I am not devoid of common sense but my book sense capacities do not translate to mechanical sense...which doesn’t come natural nor the physical sciences in general

Having a higher IQ than average is a gift but also a curse.....you tend to realize its lawyers guns and money time quicker and absorb how bad it really is in America these days culture wise...its hard to be oblivious... the ignorance is bliss thing isn’t there

But smarts is a lot more than simple IQ and its no guarantee of much but anxiety..lol

But I’ve observed and live in one of this nations richest counties where kids score high IQ and most folks are bright like Black Agnes and Pelham and Catherine...

That is not an accident

[wardaddy]

13

I put you guys in the recipient bar but alas my droid let me down yet again

Man....smart phones are sure not desktops and key boards

Guess my IQ continues to freefall

I will be Cracker Barrel......pegs game... “Ignoramoose” soon enough

God forbid I smoked ganja now....it would be pitiful

[ansel12]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIrcxGdyUdk

[freedomfiter2]

This goes a long way towards explaining Obama.

[Drango]

Dave’s not here.

[gunsequalfreedom]

[samtheman]

It is called “dope”...

[gunsequalfreedom]

Dave’s not here.

I loved that one.

Here is the Refer Madness movie 1938

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54xWo7ITFbg