Heavy Cannabis Use Not Associated With Cognitive D

[Pure]

April 14, 2005 - Belmont, MA, USA

 

Belmont, MA: Heavy, long-term use of cannabis appears to have a negligible impact on cognition and memory, according to clinical trial data published in the current issue of the American Journal of Addictions.

 

Researchers at Harvard Medical School performed magnetic resonance imaging on the brains of 22 long-term cannabis users (reporting a mean of 20,100 lifetime episodes of smoking) and 26 controls (subjects with no history of cannabis use). Imaging displayed "no significant differences" between heavy cannabis smokers compared to controls.

 

"These findings are consistent with recent literature suggesting that cannabis use is not associated with structural changes within the brain as a whole or the hippocampus in particular," authors concluded.

 

http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6516

[Pickle]

That's good to know.

 

It's nice to see once in a while scientists don't have any agenda other than knowledge.

[rosscopico0]

That's good to know.

 

It's nice to see once in a while scientists don't have any agenda other than knowledge.

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Just depends where their funding is coming from........