What's That Word? Marijuana May Affect Verbal Memory

[Robrites]

Heavy pot use can permanently damage short-term memory, study shows

Heavy pot use can permanently damage short-term memory, study shows

You Know this is government funded.

New research published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine confirms what many have suspected for some time: If you smoke a lot of weed, it can potentially do permanent damage to your short-term memory.

Professor Reto Auer of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, led a team of researchers who examined data on the marijuana habits of nearly 3,400 Americans over a 25-year period.

At the end of the study period, the subjects took a battery of tests designed to assess cognitive abilities: memory, focus, ability to make quick decisions, etc.

The study found that people who smoked marijuana on a daily basis for a long period of time — five years or more — had poorer verbal memory in middle age than people who didn’t smoke, or who smoked less.
seattletimes.com

 

[armedoldhippy]

"what's that word?" i think "bullshit" is the term you are searching for...

 

[Mystic Funk]

yeah I bet the same people that did this study say that watching tv is perfectly safe for the brain.

take 5 minutes and search "tv flicker rates"

 

[WaittillIdie]

You Know this is government funded.

New research published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine confirms what many have suspected for some time: If you smoke a lot of weed, it can potentially do permanent damage to your short-term memory.

Professor Reto Auer of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, led a team of researchers who examined data on the marijuana habits of nearly 3,400 Americans over a 25-year period.

At the end of the study period, the subjects took a battery of tests designed to assess cognitive abilities: memory, focus, ability to make quick decisions, etc.

The study found that people who smoked marijuana on a daily basis for a long period of time — five years or more — had poorer verbal memory in middle age than people who didn’t smoke, or who smoked less.
seattletimes.com

This is what really happened. The gov't about during the time the illegal patient's were issued, discovered without telling the public that cannabis actually held the ability to repair brain neurons.

They reversed the info and said it damages short term memory or causes short term memory loss. Also it takes over 20 years of daily use smoking cannabis. The short term memory loss will be a 6% at most. So they exaggerated this whole short term memory loss thing to begin with and made it sound like you were huffing gas or binge drinking for years.


What they failed to tell the public was: Yes it is true that cannabis contains a compound that can shorten memory function with over time long term use. But with this discovery also came the ability to identify the compound that causes short term memory loss and reverse engineer it into a compound that could be used to cure Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson. Since Parkinson disease has to do with damaged nerves, cannabis can repair nerve cells. We know it opens up the blood vessels to the eye and repairs blood cells.

If research had been taken a step further back then, a medicine may have come out that repaired those area's of the brain.