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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Long-Term Effects Of Marijuana Include Worse Verbal Memory At Middle Age 🌿Long-Term Effects Of Marijuana Include Worse Verbal Memory At Middle Age
How do you warn people about the potentially serious risks of a recreational drug that many users think is harmless? This is the challenge now facing health officials hoping to inform and warn the public about an increasingly legal recreational drug.
A new study indicates lifetime use of marijuana is linked to poorer verbal memory at middle age, and its authors want to spread the word.
“Young adults may be skeptical about advice on the putative adverse health effects of marijuana, which they may see as being overstated to justify the prohibition on its use,” wrote Dr. Wayne Hall, University of Queensland, Australia, and Dr. Michael Lynskey, Kings College London, in an editorial accompanying the new study. They say the challenge, then, is finding effective ways to inform pot smokers (and wannabe smokers) about the risks if they decide to smoke long-term.
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