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In reply to the discussion: Teen pot use could hurt brain and memory, new research suggests [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)4. As acknowledged in the article, the evidence is correlational.
Certain other things, such as exposure to unusual levels of stress, micht cause both the pot use and the subcortical abnormalities.
In fact, at least one of the brain structures involved, the thalamus, is known to be affected by chronic stress, entirely without any pot usage.
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I read it immediately as another scare tactic. As another poster said, it's based
RKP5637
Dec 2013
#27
And...what is the precentage of brain damage done by football playing teenagers?
Lint Head
Dec 2013
#10
You may not like this…but this is really true about these young ones and is beyond sad...
Tikki
Dec 2013
#21
Last week a Harvard study indicated NO correlation between Teen use and Schizophrenia
RainDog
Dec 2013
#24
"Brain structural studies often...capitalize on the ones that are significant by chance"
bananas
Dec 2013
#26
Oops. Maybe this is why my memory is so bad right now at 50-years-old! Maybe I didn't smoke much
BigDemVoter
Dec 2013
#36