Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
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Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
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Re: Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
#2What's most interesting about this article IMHO is that these results were found with "long-term cannabis users" defined as those who use "typically 1-4 times weekly". That seems like relatively casual use.
Re: Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
#3Totally not biased load of tripe.
Re: Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
#4What's most interesting about this article IMHO is that these results were found with "long-term cannabis users" defined as those who use "typically 1-4 times weekly". That seems like relatively casual use.
Author obviously has a conflict of interest. He fails to acknowledge that correlation is not causation and that these studies fail to take into account other variables that could influence the outcomes.
Re: Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
#5This just in: drugs make you stupid. Alcohol lowers IQ. Watching television lowers IQ. The decline in IQ reported sounds like it's within the margin of error. 10,000 years or more of cannabis use, and it is shocking we are only learning about it now that pot makes you stupid.
Re: Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
#6This is a huge effect size especially in the tails. I wish the article talked about the control groups though.
I predict a number of addicts will be triggered by this research. We saw the same effect when we found that even light drinking is measurably harmful. If your first reaction is to get upset and defensive there’s a good chance that you have a problem.
Re: Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
#7I smoked weed constantly in college, and when I stopped, it was like a fog lifted. Its danger was comically exaggerated in the anti-drug propaganda they force fed to kids in the US for so long that a lot of people have a reactionary tendency to assume it's harmless, but they will soon be proven wrong. Still has nothing on America's number 1 hard drug, alcohol, though.
Re: Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
#8What's that? '. Their cognitive decline may have altered employment opportunities for which they were qualified, but they were in no way demented. Yet.'
Who writes like that?
Also I have insomnia and ADHD and I'm pretty sure weed does help and allowed me to do more not less.
Without it I'm super tired already at Thursday.
And yes I lived long enough without it and it was like this before my weed use not after.
Re: Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
#9What's most interesting about this article IMHO is that these results were found with "long-term cannabis users" defined as those who use "typically 1-4 times weekly". That seems like relatively casual use.
That highly depends on your frame of reference, I suppose. In most of Germany that would be considered fairly 'heavy' use already, whereas most of the West Coast would probably consider that to be rookie numbers.
Re: Long-Term Cannabis Use, Cognitive Decline, and the Hippocampus
#10This is not a primary source of anything related to psychology.
This site is article marketing for people in the mental health field.
The primary motivation of the author's is to self promotion.