Smoking Pot Lowers IQ
Bryan Nash | Sep 04, 2012 | Comments 6 |
Inhaling marijuana smoke may mean you’re exhaling IQ points. Research now suggests that teens who smoke regularly may have lower IQs as adults.
Before age 18 (the time when many marijuana users start), the brain is still growing significantly. And puffing pot seems to prevent the developing brain from reaching its full potential.
The same damage was not found in those who started smoking as adults.
“Quitting or reducing cannabis use did not appear to fully restore intellectual functioning among adolescent-onset former persistent cannabis users,” says a contributor to the study, Terrie Moffitt of King College London’s Institute of Psychiatry and Duke.
“Research has shown that IQ is a strong determinant of a person’s access to a college education, their lifelong total income, their access to a good job, their performance on the job, their tendency to develop heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and even early death,” she adds.
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So if Marijuana lowers ones IQ then would it not also affect ones memory as well. So how come a friend of mine who smokes pot regulary has a remarkable memory to create so many songs with lyrics & doesn’t even write them down & remembers them all. Also how come Cannabis is illegal while Hemp is one of the healthiest vegetable we can eat , one of strongest fibres known to man, can be used for building things that is Antibacterial, & is the greatest Cancer Cure ever known to man (Hemp Oil). I hear that cannabis has something called THC content in it that is very good for us that also it’s said is a natural pain killer & in Canada it’s allowed as medicine for such use as long as the government get a massive profit cut kickback from it from people dying from cancer. If you don’t beleive me then go watch a doco called Run From The Cure, The Rick Simpson Story.
This story is total rubbish! I have smoked pot for years and went back to college as an adult. I received a grade of a “B” in Anatomy which is a difficult course along with several “A” grades in other classes. This article is only meant to instill fear. Why not print one one diminished capacities from excessive alcohol abuse?
LMAO,
Just For The Record – Drinking one single Coke a Cola will not {May} kill brain cells, but infact does kill millions of brain cells per unit consumed.
Yet how many countless “billions of gallons” of Coke a Cola are consumed daily by children in just the 50 states of this nation?
Coka A Cola also affects “Adults” in the very same way.
But then again so do all canned soft drinks. Let alone “Sodium Fluoride” of what is consumed daily in every form of FOOD you eat, all the water, wine & beer and or any liquid or even the air you breath, but hey why get into that very real problem that we all face daily when its just to damm easy to blame POT for the greed of the political class who are on the control strings of the true RULING class who own the BIG Pharm Co’s.
Really the sad part about ignorance is that ignorance is center stage for the mindless sheep who want to be told whats good or bad for them.
Yet doing any form of “real research” is just out of the bloody question.
Peace and LOVE
So if Marijuana lowers ones IQ then would it not also affect ones memory as well. So how come a friend of mine who smokes pot regulary has a remarkable memory to create so many songs with lyrics & doesn’t even write them down & remembers them all. Also how come Cannabis is illegal while Marijuana is one of the healthiest vegetable we can eat , Hemp is one of strongest fibres known to man, can be used for building things that is Antibacterial, & is the greatest Cancer Cure ever known to man (Hemp Oil). I hear that cannabis has something called THC content in it that is very good for us that also it’s said is a natural pain killer & in Canada it’s allowed as medicine for such use as long as the government get a massive profit cut kickback from it from people dying from cancer. If you don’t beleive me then go watch a doco called Run From The Cure, The Rick Simpson Story.
Another post by some [ad hominem removed], thats probably never touched or seen marijuana in their life… So why dont you go ahead and take a puff and then tell us all what it really does!!
I started smoking pot in Vietnam at the tender age of 19. I quit after 11 years because I was getting married and a daily pot habit was too expensive. But why I quit is beside the point. My point is that because so many guys in Vietnam were smoking is the only reason we won that war. If it wasn’t for GI potheads we would have lost that war and Vietnam would very likely be a Communist country today!