Marijuana and the Adolescent Brain
Now that "pot" has been legalized in to states, and medicinal marijuana allowed in many more, questions about its long term use are again coming out.
It is pretty clear that marijuana does not lead to harder drugs any more than alcohol or cigarettes do. But we know heavy alcohol or tobacco use has harmful medical effects. What about pot?
Using adolescent monkeys as subjects, researchers found that heavy use (equivalent to 2 marijuana cigarettes 5 days a week) in developing brains resulted in permanent impairment of spatial memory (location) but not object memory.
As usual moderation is the key. And anyone who tells me they have no sense of direction, well......
Now that "pot" has been legalized in to states, and medicinal marijuana allowed in many more, questions about its long term use are again coming out.
It is pretty clear that marijuana does not lead to harder drugs any more than alcohol or cigarettes do. But we know heavy alcohol or tobacco use has harmful medical effects. What about pot?
Using adolescent monkeys as subjects, researchers found that heavy use (equivalent to 2 marijuana cigarettes 5 days a week) in developing brains resulted in permanent impairment of spatial memory (location) but not object memory.
As usual moderation is the key. And anyone who tells me they have no sense of direction, well......
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