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Glad I never touched it until I was around 20. Not so good for a developing brain.
"Cognitive decline, poor attention and memory, and decreased IQ"
Uhhhh... News flash! Those are the common side effects of long term marijuana use.
In other words.
STONED.
STONERS ARE BRAIN DEAD.
Ok, wow, these agenda based "studies" are hilarious... first of all, what's your control group vs. your experimental group? I highly doubt that they took a bunch of potential honor roll students and had them smoke 5 joints a day, for months or years, and then said "Yep, this really f&$%ed these kids up! Sorry about that!"
They studied from birth to adulthood... a group of 2,000+... clearly only focusing on those who had smoked heavily. This could very well be a false positive. Perhaps the people who rely on smoking that regularly, at that young an age, didn't have quite the mental "headstart" as others?
This is similar to the argument that MJ is a gateway drug, which it is not. There is 0 evidence to suggest this. It is a matter of people who are willing to do hard drugs, are going to do them anyway, MJ doesn't cause this behavior. The use of it is simply a function of that individual.
Furthermore, it's also like saying that it causes schizophrenia - which, again, has no evidence and is in fact almost completely opposite. The current scientific research actually indicates that schizophrenic behavior and onset is curbed by MJ usage, that it may actually HELP these people cope. As a result, the correlation is skewed and the agenda pushers see an opportunity to invoke fear around MJ use to protect the deep pockets of the industries paying them to paint this negative light.
Can it be dangerous? Yes!
Can it lead to a drop in motivation? Yes!
Does it cause problems? Yes!
But when compared to alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceuticals? If you think that the risk of MJ is even in the same ballpark, you are a brainwashed fool. Look at the ACTUAL research... not this spin cycle BS that is being funded by the alcohol, tobacco, pharma, prison and law enforcement systems.