Marijuana and Brain Damage

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/06/04/Marijuana_use_linked_to_brain_injury/UPI-10761212556990/

Hopefully with some more studies on the health effects the mainstream knowledge of marijuana will shift to reflect the medical research.

Happy toking :hat:

 

I wish the article had more information. I'd like to know how large the study was, and what constitutes "heavy use." For all we know, "heavy use" could be 20 joints a day.

 

alright, it took some digging, but i found the study itself online, as originally published.

http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/co...is&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

if you would prefer a PDF so you can read it in its original format and layout as it appeared in the Archives of General Psychiatry, follow this (the PDF is easier to read, but requires a program that will read it, such as adobe)

the sample size was a mere 15, but that does not necessarily invalidate the study. if anything, it simply means more research must be done, which is not a bad thing at all.

 

hmmm 15 years.... so I'd have memory loss of a 31 year old... i don care really

 

I should be retarded by now......
hmmmm.......

 

even if it's true, who cares?
I'd rather get high regularly for the rest of my life and put up with a bit of memory loss. we're not talking about wet brain, liver failure, olney's lesions, heart damage, psychosis, etc.

 

I guess this means that it's too dangerous for people to have the choice to do it..


uhh...right?

</sarcasm>

 

"said Dan Lubman, an addiction medicine specialist at Orygen Youth Health."

Finally an addiction youth health doctor to tell us about marijuana.


Obviously, marijuana has been known to cause memory loss. tell us something special.

 

there have also been many studies which show that heavy marijuana use does not alter brain structure at all, and does not permanently affect memory. google it, i'm too lazy to post links.