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Originally Posted by PaugusBayFireFighter
Not my cup of tea, more the younger generations choice.
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Study Claims Marijuana Reshapes Brain Of Users
The scientists call their study the first “to show casual use of marijuana is related to major brain changes.”
Maybe there really are repercussions to smoking pot. A new study holds that two neural regions key to
emotions and motivation become misshapen or abnormally large after repeated pot smoking.
The scientists call their study the first "to show casual use of marijuana is related to major brain changes."
The study was paid for by the National Institutes of Health, the Office of National Drug Control Policy and Northwestern Medicine's Warren Wright Adolescent Center. The paper will be published Wednesday, August 27, 2014 in the Journal of Neuroscience.
To exemplify their claims, researchers used an MRI machine and the brains of 40 people between the ages of 18 and 25. They claim that the more marijuana a person smokes, the more those two neural regions get "damaged."
Dr. Hans Breiter, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, co-authored the study. He says,
"Anytime you find there's a relationship to the amount of marijuana consumed and you see differences of core brain regions involved in processing of rewards, the making of decisions, the ability to assess emotions, that is a serious issue."
This study explains a lot.