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Science Reveals What Happens to Adults Who Smoked Marijuana as Teenagers

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 14:51

“Don’t smoke marijuana as a teenager because it will screw you up as an adult.” Countless teenagers have been told something like this, either through anti-marijuana propaganda or parental wisdom.

And it makes sense — maybe introducing psychoactive drugs on a still-developing teenage brain isn’t the smartest of decisions.

Now, a new study that tracked the lives of teenage marijuana smokers for decades reveals how smoking marijuana as a teenager really affects one’s physical and mental health as an adult.

The Study

“What we found was a little surprising,” said Jordan Bechtold, the study’s lead researcher and a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

The new study, published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, analyzed data collected by the Pittsburgh Youth Study, which examined the relationship between social and delinquent behavior and drug use among boys in the Pittsburgh public school system.

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