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A growing body of research and numerous anecdotal reports link cannabis with several health benefits.
Weed affects your ability to make decisions, control emotions, remember important data, plan, organize and solve problems, a new study found, and that impact may last well past your initial high.
A 2017 review suggests that cannabis has been shown to improve the mood of depression-diagnosed patients. [12] This is indicative of a longitudinal relationship between cannabis reduction and improvements in anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression have been found to increase susceptibility to marijuana use. [52]
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.
Legal cannabis (marijuana) product. Overconsumption and reliance could lead to cannabis-induced amotivational syndrome. The term amotivational syndrome was first devised to understand and explain the diminished drive and desire to work or compete among the population of youth who are frequent consumers of cannabis and has since been researched through various methodological studies with this ...
Denver's annual marijuana celebration: Second up, the lungs. Despite all the coughing jokes, marijuana isn't linked to lung damage –– in fact, it may improve how lungs function.
A 2015 study found that medical marijuana legalization increased use and abuse by those under and over the age of 21. [6] A 2017 study found that frequency of marijuana use by students increased significantly after recreational legalization and that increase was especially large for females and for Black and Hispanic students. [7]
Marijuana’s reclassification initiative reflects that the clear majority of Americans want legalized marijuana, for better or for worse. Similarly, Prohibition ended because of the public’s ...