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From my personal experience, having several friends that have been smoking since high school up to now (mid 30s), it's definitely 2).

jstanley 3y ago
But maybe having friends who smoke weed dramatically reduces your ability to assess your friends' assessment of their own cognitive ability.
- Handprint4469 3y ago
  Indeed, touché
rvnx 3y ago
The study is really broken from the beginning: ask someone who take drugs to assess their own capacities, instead of measuring those from an objective perspective. Obviously, "yes cannabis affects your ability to self-report your cognitive abilities"; it's a psychoactive drug that is mainly used for its cognitive effects, it's the main use/"advantage" of it ! (more rarely for pain management) It's like if you ask alkaloidal cocaine (crack) users how they feel about their abilities. They may report amazing bodily control enhancement, and seen from the outside it may be very different. Even alcohol users, at the exit of night clubs, you sometimes see them report self-report increased abilities and decide to drive. In that case, asking them to self-report doesn't give you much info on their actual abilities.
jajko 3y ago
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InSteady 3y ago
It's pretty well established that using cannabis while the brain is still developing has a negative impact on brain development. Additionally, from what I've observed among a few dozen people I've known over the years, people who start smoking in high school and continue without any substantial breaks through to adulthood tend to have a less healthy relationship with cannabis. They have a stronger tendency to fall into the pattern of using all day every day, and tend use much larger amounts than people who started using as adults or have taken substantial breaks (year +) from cannabis consumption as adults.

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From my personal experience, having several friends that have been smoking since high school up to now (mid 30s), it's definitely 2).

by Handprint4469 3y ago

jstanley 3y ago
But maybe having friends who smoke weed dramatically reduces your ability to assess your friends' assessment of their own cognitive ability.
- Handprint4469 3y ago
  Indeed, touché
rvnx 3y ago
The study is really broken from the beginning: ask someone who take drugs to assess their own capacities, instead of measuring those from an objective perspective. Obviously, "yes cannabis affects your ability to self-report your cognitive abilities"; it's a psychoactive drug that is mainly used for its cognitive effects, it's the main use/"advantage" of it ! (more rarely for pain management) It's like if you ask alkaloidal cocaine (crack) users how they feel about their abilities. They may report amazing bodily control enhancement, and seen from the outside it may be very different. Even alcohol users, at the exit of night clubs, you sometimes see them report self-report increased abilities and decide to drive. In that case, asking them to self-report doesn't give you much info on their actual abilities.
jajko 3y ago
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InSteady 3y ago
It's pretty well established that using cannabis while the brain is still developing has a negative impact on brain development. Additionally, from what I've observed among a few dozen people I've known over the years, people who start smoking in high school and continue without any substantial breaks through to adulthood tend to have a less healthy relationship with cannabis. They have a stronger tendency to fall into the pattern of using all day every day, and tend use much larger amounts than people who started using as adults or have taken substantial breaks (year +) from cannabis consumption as adults.