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 ...
“Some people do smoke weed every couple of months, and not daily.”
In 2104, 13.2% of Americans had used pot in the past year but only 8.4% in the past month - so 36% of past-year users were not past-month users. (http://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-DetTabs2014/NSDUH-DetTabs2014.htm#tab1-1b)
Awesome! I’ll take two doses of the jelly on mine.
Whew!! I thought maybe they were talking a 30pack of beer. I’m coooooool.
What?............did you say.............I’ll, uh......what?...................
There is a guy in the office who is known to smoke. Its sort of a running joke, but most days he makes the rounds at the end of the day, looking for his coffee cup and glasses. He never remembers where he leaves them.
Hey! Pass the Cheee-tos, man!
Why do pot smokers eye lids always appear they’re about to go to sleep. Its a look they all seem to have.
Euthanasia for stoners bump for later....
Seriesly not funny man . .
Dave’s not here.
LOL! Yeah...I like the caption: "This is probably too much marijuana for one person." Ya reckon?
Used to love the stuff but gave it up up without a second thought. No real discernible long-term effects except for the purple spiders that no one else can see...
Yup Im in my 60’s and had a lot of hard drinking friends who are no longer with us, And I know weed smokers who been smoking since high school and never stopped and they play golf daily.
This is a bunch of BS. And you know what else? This is a bunch of BS. Lol.
Frito Lay is having a promotional sale right now ! Bags of Cheetos for $1.99.
At least here in NYS, don't know if it's just regional. My guess is that it's prep for the Super Bowl
You should totally use that fluffer nutter stuff instead of regular peanut butter. You only live once, man!
No, man...I’m Dave. Open up!
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