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I quit smoking weed years ago when I noticed when I was reading that I had forgotten the meaning of some words that I once knew. Smoking is great until it makes

• flukus 9y ago
  How do you distinguish what you forgot from smoking weed with what you just plain forgot? It's amazing what you can forget, even stuff that has been drilled into you. I'd forgotten how to do long division until recently, despite doing it over and over again in primary school to pick one example. The brain is very much "use it or lose it".
  • sverige 9y ago
    I had known these words for years. The feeling of knowing that you used to know what, say, "superannuated" or "collusion" or "hegemony" meant, but right now you haven't a clue, is distressing. These words were in long-term memory. My memory was slowly restored after I quit. Smokers will readily admit that their short-term memory is damaged by marijuana use, but not much is said about damage to long-term memory.