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Re:Association between cannabis use and subjective cognitive... by rasengan on Sunday March 10, 2024 @10:05AM (#39659170)
It’s likely 1.

Most adults are busy reducing brain cell count thru use of alcohol and other poisons. Marijuana on the other hand is proven to increase brain cell count thru neurogenesis in the hippocampus [1].

This is not possible for adults without marijuana [2].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16224541/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/1588/

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Re:Association between cannabis use and subjective cognitive... by Retric on Sunday March 10, 2024 @10:08AM (#39659211)
Your [2] is outdated information. 2018 my not seem like that long ago, but science doesn't stop.

EX: https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/44/2/zsaa173/5986548

However, growing evidence suggests that new cells are not only “born” constitutively in the adult hypothalamus, but many of these cells also differentiate into neurons and glia and serve specific functions.

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Re:Association between cannabis use and subjective cognitive... by specproc on Sunday March 10, 2024 @10:10AM (#39659229)
Checking the paper, alcohol is a covariate.
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