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Researchers found that 63% of lifetime heavy cannabis-using participants and 68% of recent cannabis users showed reduced brain activity during their working memory task.
Studies show consistently throughout the literature that most cannabis users self-report the experience of a slowed perception of time. [2] [3] In the laboratory, researchers have confirmed the effect of cannabis on the perception of time in both humans and animals. [4] Studies have sought to explain how cannabis changes the internal clock.
A dried cannabis flower. The short-term effects of cannabis are caused by many chemical compounds in the cannabis plant, including 113 [clarification needed] different cannabinoids, such as tetrahydrocannabinol, and 120 terpenes, [1] which allow its drug to have various psychological and physiological effects on the human body.
Amnestic drugs can be used to induce a coma for a child breathing using mechanical ventilation, or to help reduce intracranial pressure after head trauma. [ 3 ] [ failed verification ] Researchers are currently experimenting with drugs which induce amnesia in order to improve understanding of human memory, and develop better drugs to treat ...
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Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence is a 1997 book about the medical effects of cannabis, and related U.S. drug control policy, written by Lynn Zimmer and John P. Morgan. As of 1998, Zimmer was a sociology professor at Queens College. [1]
Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in the Western world. [3] In the United States, 10-20% of those who begin the use of cannabis daily will later become dependent. [4] [5] Cannabis use can lead to addiction, which is defined as "when the person cannot stop using the drug even though it interferes with many aspects of his or her life."
Effects have included an increase in cannabis-related calls to the Oregon state poison center, [29] an increase in perception among youth that marijuana use is harmful, [29] a decrease in arrest rates for cannabis related offenses, [29] stores sold $250 million in cannabis products which resulted in $70 million in state tax revenue (higher than ...