When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves

Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by jesseb on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:27AM (#18345949)

> Unfortunately not. If you spend a long time smoking you'll end up permanently slower in the brain.

I'm sorry, but what? You can't make claims like that without providing evidence to back it up.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by IMTDb on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:32AM (#18345990)

Here you go: https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/nida-notes/2016/09/reg...

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by apsec112 on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:02AM (#18346245)

"Permanent" implies that you'd have to look at people who did pot a while ago and then stopped. This data (and any data on current users) is consistent with the alternative hypothesis that the changes are temporary and will revert after ceasing use.

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Re:When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Imp... by IMTDb on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:32PM (#18347125)

Long lasting effects are harder to study obviously, but here is one that confirms that there are long term consequences:

https://www.nature.com/articles/npp201744

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