Items tagged with cognitive decline
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| Medical cannabis doesn't cause cognitive decline in seniors, study finds [13.10.2020] | A new study conducted at Haifa University's School of Public Health has found no evidence of cognitive decline in senior citizens who regularly smoke ... |
| Cannabis can both help and hinder memory [22.07.2020] | Even the word “dope”, describing people that use cannabis, suggests they have less than optimal brain functioning. The idea that cannabis impairs mem ... |
| Minimum legal age for cannabis use should be 19, study suggests [13.05.2020] | The optimal minimum legal age for non-medical cannabis use is 19 years of age, according to a study published in BMC Public Health. Researchers inves ... |
| Canada’s message to teenagers: Marijuana is legal now. Please don’t smoke it [11.11.2018] | Canada became the second country to make it legal for adults to buy, grow and consume small amounts of marijuana. But it also made it a crime to give ... |
| Cannabis harm to teenagers' brains 'overstated', finds study [18.04.2018] | Fears that cannabis causes irreparable harm to teenager’s brains have been stoked by trials which “overstated” the effects on intelligence and other ... |
| CBD may protect against psychiatric risk from high-THC cannabis strains [07.09.2017] | A study by neuroscientists at Indiana University finds that a nonpsychoactive compound in cannabis called cannabidiol, or CBD, appears to protect aga ... |
| Daily dose of cannabis extract could reverse brain's decline in old age, study suggests [08.05.2017] | Researchers have come up with an unusual proposal to slow, or even reverse, the cognitive decline that comes with old age: small, daily doses of cann ... |
| Some of the parts: Is marijuana’s “entourage effect” scientifically valid? [20.04.2017] | If you believe budtender wisdom, consuming a strain called Bubba Kush should leave you ravenous and relaxed whereas dank Hippie Chicken should uplift ... |
| Ten scientific studies from 2016 showing marijuana is safe and effective [29.12.2016] | While no psychoactive substance is completely harmless, modern science continues to prove that cannabis is one of the safer and more effective therap ... |
| Long-term marijuana use is not associated with a raft of physical health problems, says study [05.06.2016] | Long-term marijuana use is not associated with a raft of physical health problems, according to a new study. Researchers tracked the marijuana habits ... |
| Voters are doing what politicians won’t on marijuana reform [08.03.2016] | Massachusetts' top politicians just came out swinging against legal marijuana. Voters there are on track to decide whether to legalize marijuana at t ... |
| Scientists have found that smoking weed does not make you stupid after all [17.01.2016] | A 2012 Duke University study found that persistent, heavy marijuana use through adolescence and young adulthood was associated with declines in IQ. O ... |
| Does cannabis really lower your IQ? [14.01.2016] | Whether or not using cannabis can lead to cognitive impairment is a hot topic of research and public interest. Given the extensive media attention to ... |
| Here’s why we hear so many false claims about cannabis [08.09.2015] | Research on substance use has taught me a major overarching lesson: we are much more likely to demonize drugs for their negative effects than conside ... |
| State of the Evidence: Cannabis Use and Regulation [31.07.2015] | As more and more jurisdictions reconsider their cannabis policies, the public discourse is filled with conflicting evidence about the impacts of cann ... |
| The weed war undermines science [10.02.2015] | Columbia professor Carl Hart: "The National Institute on Drug Abuse funds 90 percent of the world's research on drug abuse with our tax dollars. The ... |
| Daily marijuana use doesn't really change brains of adults or teens, study finds [02.02.2015] | Late last year, the press and marijuana-legalization opponents gave a lot of attention to a study suggesting that daily marijuana use shrinks users' ... |
| No, marijuana use doesn’t lower your IQ [21.10.2014] | A 2012 Duke University study made international headlines purporting to find a link between heavy marijuana use and IQ decline among teenagers. Other ... |
| Teenagers who use cannabis every day 60% less likely to finish school [10.09.2014] | Teenagers who use cannabis daily before the age of 17 are more than 60% less likely to complete high school or university, research published in Lanc ... |
| How neuroscience reinforces racist drug policy [12.06.2014] | A recent neuroscience study from Harvard Medical School claims to have discovered brain differences between people who smoke marijuana and people who ... |
| No, weed won’t rot your brain [17.04.2014] | Headlines are screaming Marijuana Makes Young Brains Go to Pot. But a new study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, does not in any way prove ... |
| Five biggest lies from anti-pot propagandist Kevin Sabet [07.08.2013] | Kevin Abraham Sabet-Sharghi, Ph.D., aka Kevin Sabet, has been a headline-grabbing right-winger ever since his U.C. Berkeley days—where he did not stu ... |
| Pot smokers might not turn into dopes after all [13.01.2013] | Cannabis rots your brain — or does it? Last year, a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggested that people w ... |
| INCB President voices concern [15.11.2012] | The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, has voiced grave concern about the outcome of recent referenda in th ... |
| Cannabis reduces IQ (and appreciation of context) [28.08.2012] | A new study suggests that young cannabis users run the risk of a lower IQ. In what is an impressively long-term cohort study, it was found that "thos ... |
| Does weekly marijuana use by teens really cause a drop in IQ? [28.08.2012] | Heavy marijuana use is associated with cognitive decline in about 5% of teens, according to a new study, which suggests that the heaviest users could ... |
| What should we do about cannabis? [09.11.2010] | No serious commentator doubts that cannabis is potentially damaging to the user. Like tobacco, it is typically smoked and thus shares the potential f ... |
| The changing use and misuse of khat [07.05.2010] | Within the last decade the hitherto little known psychoactive substance of khat has emerged as a regional and international issue. In the Horn of Afr ... |
| Adverse health effects of non-medical cannabis use [17.10.2009] | For over two decades, cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, has been the most widely used illicit drug by young people in high-income countries, and ... |
| Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate [01.09.2008] | Despite cannabis being the most widely used illegal drug, and therefore the mainstay of the ‘war on drugs’, it has only ever held a relatively margin ... |
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