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The conclusion of this article is bizarre. After essentially admitting that pot elicited no serious long term cognitive side effects, in a strange attempt to r
by zzalpha 11y ago
The conclusion of this article is bizarre. After essentially admitting that pot elicited no serious long term cognitive side effects, in a strange attempt to resuscitate the idea that pot is bad for you, they go on to cite the dangers of long term alcohol abuse as somehow undermining these results, despite their being completely different drugs with completely different modes of operation and effects on the body.
The cognitive dissonance is strong in this one.
- vixen99 11y agoClearly you must be reading an entirely different set of peer-reviewed articles from the ones I've just been looking at. "Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife" www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1206820109 "Cannabis use has been shown to impair cognitive functions on a number of levels —from basic motor coordination to more complex executive function tasks, such as the ability to plan, organize, solve problems, make decisions, remember, and control emotions and behavior. These deficits differ in severity depending on the quantity, recency, age of onset and duration of marijuana use. ". J Addict Med. 2011 Mar 1; 5(1): 1–8. Plenty more where these come from.
- zzalpha 11y agoUhh... you mean this part of the article, which flat out contradicts your claims, and is based on the results of this most recent study? On the other hand, it's also quite surprising that you can smoke weed every single day for five years, and not have it impact your problem-solving abilities or your ability to focus at all. The part right before the part where he brings up the spectre of alcohol abuse?