Use of Cannabis in Adolescence Linked to Lower IQ

[cardgame]

The article also mentions the "lost" IQ is restored after stopping cannabis use - so it's not permanent and therefore not really harmful (depending on how long that takes for it to become restored - didn't read the linked article, just OP).

 

[Mark1031]

The article also mentions the "lost" IQ is restored after stopping cannabis use - so it's not permanent and therefore not really harmful (depending on how long that takes for it to become restored - didn't read the linked article, just OP).

Unfortunately not. From the OP.

Stopping or reducing cannabis use failed to fully restore the lost IQ.

 

[AlpsStranger]

I'm sure drinking and smoking heavily before you are 18 isn't too damn healthy either.

Not a particularly good argument for prohibition IMHO, especially since it isn't exactly rare even while prohibited.

 

[cardgame]

Unfortunately not. From the OP.

Oh, whoops

My bad...

 

[Core Imposter]

If you live long enough you'll note that "news" stories repeat themselves. Conventional wisdom 40years ago was that pot makes you dumb and robs you of initative. This falls in the category of the local news story I saw about a year ago in which the breathless anchor reported that you can freeze meat in plastic bags.

 

[ZeletDude]

This doesn't really surprise me, but I have several friends who smoke and are still straight A students..

 

[Old Hippy]

This doesn't really surprise me, but I have several friends who smoke and are still straight A students..

lets just hope they turn up for their final exams...

 

[Berzerker]

8 pt dont sound like much, i tested ~120 in 3rd grade and ~140 a couple years ago

i assume they used the exact same test?

 

[Save_Ferris]

you not pot does make stupid, man

(also, that thread icon is copyrighted)

 

[Verarde]

Film at 11.

 

[GoodGame]

I'm pretty sure JAMA run an article about marijuana use negatively affecting memory in some capacity, in the 1990s. I'll have to google scholar it sometime.

 

[cardgame]

What's the standard deviation on IQ tests anyway?

 

[ZeletDude]

lets just hope they turn up for their final exams...

You can't get A's if you skip your final exam.

 

[Andvare]

What's the standard deviation on IQ tests anyway?

Depends on the test and where you live.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I'm glad I smoked during my adolescence, otherwise I'd be so intelligent I'd be obnoxious about it.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Bare in mind that not doing a whole range of stuff a few times just because doing it always is bad for you is no way to live either.

 

[Borachio]

It seems to be a characteristic of mammals, and possibly other organisms too, to seek this kind of stimulation, or change, to the CNS.

I wonder why.

Is it the mythical Tree of Knowledge, do you think?

 

[holy king]

hm, seeing the whole universe all at once can be pretty stressy, i can tell you.

 

[Borachio]

I can imagine. But I shall have to take your word for it.

 

[shadowplay]

hm, seeing the whole universe all at once can be pretty stressy, i can tell you.

Next time, wave to me!