Brain Development

January 24, 2022January 23, 2022

Does Marijuana Improve Your Memory? – FACT or CRAP Part 5

Is the following statement FACT or CRAP?

5. Marijuana improves your memory.

Answer: CRAP

Marijuana impairs short-term memory, making it difficult to learn and retain information. A Population-Based Analysis of the Relationship Between Substance Use and Adolescent Cognitive Development https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18020202

Let’s face it: Big Marijuana, and the adults it’s duped with its promises of a clean high and a medical panacea, really know better.… Read the rest

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022

Marijuana Lowers Your Intelligence – FACT or CRAP Part 2

Is the following statement FACT or CRAP?

2. Marijuana can’t lower your intelligence.

Answer: CRAP

Heavy marijuana exposure starting in adolescence predicts an 8-point drop in IQ. Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206820109

For some time now, scientists and medical professionals have known that persistent marijuana use over long periods of time harms the brain in a variety of ways.… Read the rest

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021

Dirty Dozen #9: Marijuana Lowers Your Motivation to Do Things

By Laura Stack

In 2006, a “Dr. Leth Argos” published a pointed parody article in The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal) aimed at the pharmaceutical industry‘s tendency toward disease mongering: i.e., creating and promoting new illnesses in order to sell more products.… Read the rest

August 31, 2021August 25, 2021

Dirty Dozen #6: Marijuana Makes You More Likely to Drop Out of School

By Laura Stack

I’ve said it before: smoking, dabbing, or otherwise abusing marijuana makes you dumb. And science can prove it. In addition to the multiple studies showing how long-term marijuana use impairs your judgment, making you stop caring about negative consequences, AND drops your IQ permanently by as many as eight IQ points, other studies show a correlation between daily marijuana use and early high school drop-out rates.… Read the rest

August 2, 2021August 2, 2021

The Dirty Dozen #2: How Does Marijuana Affect IQ?

By Laura Stack

Welcome to the Marijuana Dirty Dozen article #2, where we review the second of twelve common impacts of marijuana use on adolescents: it decreases IQ. To put it simply, it makes you dumber. Johnny was an ace in math (he scored a perfect 800/800 on the math portion of the SAT as a junior in high school).… Read the rest

June 21, 2021June 19, 2021

Is a “Dab” a Dance Move? Let’s Talk About Dabbing

By Laura Stack

Around 2010, marijuana hash oil products appeared, and dispensaries began to carry early versions of budders, saps, and waxes. They weren’t common when voters voted to legalize recreational marijuana in Colorado in 2012. But by 2015, these new-fangled high-potency waxes and extracts started appearing in high schools.… Read the rest

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021

Please Help Johnny’s Ambassadors with Our Anti-420 Efforts!

Hello, Johnny’s Ambassadors! Did you know in a few weeks, teens and young adults around the world will celebrate 420 DAY? Do you know what 420 Day is and why it’s meaningful in marijuana culture? And more importantly, do you know where your teen will be at 4:20 PM on Tuesday, April 20?… Read the rest

March 1, 2021February 22, 2021

The Fodder of Lies: Marijuana Use and Mood Disorders

By Laura Stack

Despite evidence to the contrary, many marijuana users choose to believe their favorite drug works as a viable medicine for all kinds of ailments, physical and mental. Pro-marijuana web sites love to promote marijuana as an “alternative medicine,” good for whatever ails you, just as their Big Tobacco and snake oil predecessors did with their products.… Read the rest

January 25, 2021January 23, 2021

The DSM-5 Mental Disorders Associated with Cannabis Use Disorder

By Laura Stack

In my writing, I often focus on the mental effects of marijuana use, since it caused psychosis in my son, Johnny, and ultimately destroyed his life. A recent 2020 study in the journal Addictive Behaviors indicates that people who use cannabis have a 1 in 5 risk of developing a CUD.… Read the rest

January 4, 2021January 6, 2021

Cannabis-Use Physical Disorders: The Forgotten Side of Marijuana Abuse

Today’s potent marijuana is a nasty drug. Due to selective breeding and post-harvest processing, the active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), can comprise upwards of 40% of herb marijuana and more than 90% of shatter, wax, and other Butane Hash Oil (BHO) products.… Read the rest