When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves

Post by mbrameld » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 7:05 PM UTC

5trokerac3 wrote: post #128

shawnz wrote: post #116

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> Everyone I know that smokes daily (a lot of people) is less cognitive than those I know who don't smoke Are you saying that the most "cognitive" smoker you know is less so than the least cognitive non-smoker?

Within the middle of the cognition bell curve, yes. Pattern recognition, organizational skills, general personal awareness and motivation are all higher in the non-smokers I know compared to the daily smokers.

Post by parf02 » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 7:06 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #319

parf02 wrote: post #279

I took pot when I was 22 and it had disastrous effects on my life for over a year after. Had to seek psychiatric help because of it. Had intense depersonalization and panic effects triggered from the one bad pot experience. It's unfortunate that pot is perceived as being so benign. The psychiatrist told me that cases like me are actually not that rare unfortunately.

Just to be clear you never had anxiety or panic attack issues before? You weren't seeing a psychiatrist before but this experience made you seek one out? I had panic attacks start out of no where when I was around the same age (~21). There was no obvious moment where/why it started but it would keep happening every once in a while. I first used medication (lorazepam, cipralex) but eventually learned mental tactics to…

Post by memebox3v » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 7:08 PM UTC

LrnByTeach wrote: post #383

framebit wrote: post #278

A therapist friend recently attended a conference where a big group of doctors and health professionals focused around adolescents presented on the link between pot and the development of psychosis and even schizophrenia in users under age 32 or something like that. I've definitely heard about this colloquially with people reacting very differently to the same strain ("we were all fine but she was just freaking out")…

All high school weed smokers are not equal. There are many occasional smokers. For the sake of simplicity, let me put a number here. High schooler between 9th to 12 grade who smoke weed at least 10 times a week all four years will settle in LIFE below 50% of his potential (compared to how he would have done without weed)

Post by erikpukinskis » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 7:14 PM UTC

thedoops wrote: post #253

Like alcohol, if weed is taken close to bedtime it will interfere with the sleep cycle. I wonder how much of the cognitive impact is sleep related?

Post by m23khan » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 7:15 PM UTC

Balero wrote: post #86

Waterluvian wrote: post #67

Maybe this is too reductionist but I once heard someone describe it as, "there's nothing fundamentally dangerous about pot, but one of its (often intended) effects is that is slows our engines down. And some of us need to be firing on all cylinders." School was a tricky time for me. I'm thriving intellectually now, but I was a C- student pretty much 4th-12th grade. I needed those cycles that pot would have robbed me…

South Park put it quite well: "Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism, but… well, son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored. And it's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything."