Does Marijuana use make you retarded?
Can the retardation be reversed?
The facts:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
jamanetwork.com
researchgate.net
All of these papers point to a serious cognitive decline from consistent cannabis consumption. These studies had a large sample size of at least 10 people, so these results are statistically sound. The real question then becomes, is the cognitive impairment permanent?
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The cognitive impairment is not permanent and resides as the drug leaves the body which can take a few days due to the binding of fat cells.
t. pounds in my lungs
On another note marijuana use is impossible to escape if it's in your environment. If you smoke it since you're twelve you might find yourself needing it for stability of your emotions.
I was reading a paper and it wasn't sure if the effects were due to a residual effect of the drug stemming from a withdrawal of sorts, if the drug was active still for days due to binding to fat cells, or if there was permanent impairment.
In my personal experience, it's the first two.
It's not permanent. The problem is that marijuana, like any high (such as always going back to an abusive lover) is addictive. It's a habit like any other, and as such it can be difficult to break, just as with any other habit.
>is the cognitive impairment permanent?
I think so
t. former cannabis user/addict
Maybe if you were smoking every day since you were 12 until you were 30, then yeah that's possible. But even then if you stop completely you will see improvements over long stretches of time.
Supposedly you can smoke marijuana up to 4 times per year (all relatively spread out) without any permanent/long-term side effects...
But I also learned that in high school health which is full of autistic factoid bullshit so take that with a grain of salt.
Lmao niggas on here quick to defend weed.
I did a brain test last night
I did the famous faces and scored in the top eight out of ten
I took the Test of Multiple Memory Types
Starts by flashing 25 pairs of unrelated words in succession.
Next you get a list of 30 words for which you must select the synonym from four .
Then you are asked to use the number on the keyboard to select the other from the pairs you were shown a few minutes earlier
you get one word .. you are shown four below 1.2.3.4 you hit the number next to the word which was paired with the one shown
On the synonym test I scored in the top nine out of ten
On the new information test which is testing your short term memory I scored at the bottom.. I was one out of ten
I smoked extensively in my 20s but quit perhaps nearly 30 years ago
One thing about this test.
When I realized what it was asking me to do I was strongly repulsed expecting I would do poorly..
I felt the information was coming faster than I could gain a sense I was going to have any chance of recalling it so I just stopped looking.
I will take the test again but I know I have extremely poor short term memory and have for the past 30 years
I would limit your intake of things which put substantial burdens on your brain.
Also avoid head injuries.. I hit a house at 15 and 1/2 when I stole my parents car. broke the windshield with my head and was unconscious for a few minutes.Long enough for emergency response to arrive
millennials use weed. gen z doesn't. the answer to your question should be self evident.
What's more likely? Getting knocked the fuck out for literally minutes affecting your short term memory or some 70s era weed. Hmmm