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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.
New research shows that heavy lifetime use of cannabis — more than 1,000 times — is associated with reduced activity in areas of the brain involved in working memory. The study adds to ...
Past studies show that regular cannabis use can increase a person’s risk for certain health issues such as lung damage, mental health issues, stroke, and heart attack.
Over time, the marijuana gateway hypothesis has been studied more and more. In one published study, the use of marijuana was shown not a reliable gateway cause of illicit drug use. [68] However, social factors and environment influence drug use and abuse, making the gateway effects of cannabis different for those in differing social circumstances.
In day-to-day practice, a history of marijuana use is often not sought by many practitioners, and even when sought, the patient's response is not always truthful". [75] A 2013 analysis of 3,886 myocardial infarction survivors over an 18-year period showed "no statistically significant association between marijuana use and mortality". [76]
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.
Students who test positive for marijuana under the new rules are also able to keep their eligibility after up to three positive tests. After a first positive test, a school must provide “a ...
A pamphlet produced by the United States Department of Justice in the 1990s for youth sports coaches admonished them to "Explain that marijuana is illegal and that the athlete can be arrested or suspended from school and sports for using it", [35] and listed several deleterious physical and psychological effects of marijuana including ...