Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet

Re:Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds... by dottjt on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @09:39PM (#42874198)

As someone who was once a young weed smoker, I get the sense that this is more correlation than causation. I know as many failures as I do successes from this position.

Those who have been failures were going to be failures anyway irrespective of whether they smoked weed or not, as was the case for those who ended up successful.

With that said, I don't deny that weed smoking at a young age would likely affect your brain negatively. But I don't think it determines what your outcome will be.

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Re:Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds... by math_dandy on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:14PM (#42874414)

The article does not claim that smoking determines outcomes for any individual. It gives statistical evidence that outcomes (measured brain activity while performing certain tasks) for weed smokers are worse than for non-smokers __on average__, and that this pattern persists in various subpopulations determined by demographic and lifestyle factors.

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Re:Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds... by dottjt on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @11:13PM (#42874772)

Thank you for clarifying, but I was responding to the commenter. Not the article

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