Saving Our Youth from the Harms of Marijuana
I recommend you begin marijuana education no later than age ten, and significantly younger if possible. Middle school is often the age of initiation into marijuana use. When I spoke at one high school recently, one student asked me, “But why aren’t you at the middle school instead of here?… Read the rest
Over the past few decades, we’ve learned that some parts of the human brain continue to develop until at least the age of 25 in women and 28 in men. Heavy exposure to marijuana before this age can negatively impact brain development, resulting in damage affecting many bodily and mental functions.… Read the rest
One trade-off we humans suffer for our intelligence is brains that aren’t as well-developed as they could be when we’re born. Otherwise, our heads would be too big for the birth canal. Therefore, unlike most large mammals, many of which can walk and seek food within days or hours of birth, human infants are helpless.… Read the rest
Reefer Madness, a 1936 film, portrays users driven insane by pot, even to the point of suicide. Based on analyses performed in the 1960s, and to a lesser extent on archived samples in recent years, old-style “reefer” was remarkably weak. The marijuana that had people dancing naked at Woodstock had a THC content of maybe 2-3%.… Read the rest
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
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
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
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
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
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