Cannabis does not make your brain smaller

The advocators of a ban on cannabis would have us believe that even incidental use causes the brain to shrink, and that it causes psychoses or schizophrenia. The rumours about the brain shrinking stem back to this study in 2014, on which various sensational news reports are based. The study is not, however, a longitudinal study, but rather represents a snapshot study of a limited number of test subjects. The researchers themselves assert that age of first use is much more important and that their results do not point to a single conclusion.

Does smoking cannabis make you schizophrenic?

Schizophrenia is the second argument used by objectors to prevent a regulation that deals with the drug rationally. JAMA Psychiatry also recently published on this subject, stating that young men in particular should not, or only very rarely, smoke cannabis to prevent harm to the development of the brain. The research demonstrates that...

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