Study suggests casual marijuana users may get brain changes that fores

[OZ Stoners]

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A small study of casual marijuana smokers has turned up evidence of changes in the brain, a possible sign of trouble ahead, researchers say. "What we think we are seeing here is a very early indication of what becomes a problem later on with prolonged use," things like lack of focus and impaired judgment, said Dr. Hans Breiter, a study author. Longer-term studies will be needed ...

 

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[OZ Stoners]

Smoking cannabis alters the size and shape of two key brain regions involved in emotion and motivation, research has shown.

 

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[OZ Stoners]

YOUNG people who smoke cannabis just once or twice a week could suffer "major" changes to areas of their brain important for emotion and motivation, US scientists have said.

 

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[Frank Reynolds]

" David Nutt, from Imperial College, London, said a sample of 40 was not big enough to draw conclusions"

 

hmmmmmmmmmm

[OZ Stoners]

Casual cannabis smokers risk damaging the parts of the brain that control motivation, emotion and reward. A US study found that recreational marijuana use changed to the shape and density of regions of the users' brains involved in reward and addiction and parts that help process emotion and form long-term memories. Researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine concluded ...

 

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[OZ Stoners]

A small study of casual marijuana smokers has turned up evidence of changes in the brain, a possible sign of trouble ahead, researchers say. The young adults who volunteered for the study were not dependent ...

 

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[Midget]

and yet all the studies of alcohol and the damage it causes seem to be blissfully ignored by governemnts...

[OZ Stoners]

According to a new paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience, young adults who casually smoke weed sustain changes to areas of the brain associated with emotion and (you guessed it) motivation.  The study, by scientists from Northwestern Medicine and Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, is novel because it looks at young smokers who don't use the drug heavily, a ...

 

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