NORML’s Deputy Director today on Alternet.org addressed new media claims that cannabis use can potentially shrink the brain.
Tag: cognition
Investigators at the University College of London analyzed data from 2,612 subjects who had their IQ tested at the age of eight and again at age 15. They reported no relationship between cannabis use and lower IQ at age 15 when confounding factors such as alcohol use and cigarette use were taken into account.
Using high–resolution MRI imaging, scientists identified specific changes in particular regions of the brain that they inferred were likely due to marijuana exposure. Notably, however, these changes did not appear to be associated with any overt adverse effects in subjects’ actual cognition or behavior.
[Editor’s note: This post is excerpted from this week’s forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To…
[Editor’s note: This post is excerpted from this week’s forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To…
The mainstream media loves to spill ink hyping the allegation that marijuana causes mental illness,…
The consumption of cannabis, even long-term, has a “minimal” impact on brain function, according to a systematic literature review just published online by the journal Psychological Medicine.