Bob Enyart reports on today's peer-reviewed scientific study showing that regular pot users have shrunken brains and lower IQ, which is consistent with years of research on laboratory rats, and also, with the landmark 2012 PNAS study that showed that pot permanently lowers IQ, and the large 2014 study in Lancet showing that high schoolers are 63% less likely to graduate, have an 8-fold increased odds of using other illegal drugs, and a 7-fold increased likelihood of attempted suicide. And then there are the Democrats to report on... and Ben Carson.
And from kgov.com/pot:
Research Showing the Harmful Effects of Marijuana Use
- Landmark 2012 PNAS study: pot permanently lowers IQ
- 2014 PNAS study: pot users have shrunken brains and lower IQ
- A large 2014 study in Lancet shows high schoolers 63% less likely to graduate, 8-fold increased odds of using other illegal drugs, and 7-fold increased likelihood of attempted suicide
- Netherlands study of 2,000 teens show pot/psychosis link
- Marijuana Damages DNA and May Cause Cancer
- Schizoid Psychosis from smoking weed reported in the Hungarian Neuropsychopharmacologia journal
- Marijuana May Stunt Fetal Growth in 2010 Netherlands study
- Marijuana Associated with Impaired Fetal Growth in 1989 U.S. study
- A Nursing Mother Smoking Marijuana Passes the Drug to Her Child
- Cannabis Intake During Pregnancy Predicts Long-lasting Neurobehavioural Problems for the Child in 2009 European study
- Habitual Marijuana Use Strongly Associated with Car Crash Injury
- Smoking Marijuana Doubles the Risk of Fatal Accidents
- Marijuana Smoke Contains Higher Levels of Certain Toxins than Tobacco Smoke
- Marijuana Smoker Face Rapid Lung Destruction: As much as 20 Years Ahead of Tobacco Smokers
- Impact On Lungs of One Cannabis Joint Equal to Up To Five Cigarettes
- Marijuana Component Opens the Door for Virus that Causes Kaposi's Sarcoma (links to Harvard study)
- Marijuana Causes Learning and Memory Impairments from the journal Neurobiology.
- By 2013 the Denver Post still hasn't come out of their stupor but at least they've noticed the fog. Sad but important insights on the long lasting harm from smoking pot as described by a professor from the University of Colorado's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. (Notice though the Post uncritically quoting a pot dealer who speaks of his customers as "patients".)
Marijuana News Updates
2014 News Updates: With today's stronger pot:
- Another person in England has died of cannabis poisoning.
- Since potheads have slower reactions, they therefore are far more likely to suffer premature death.
- Famous pot advocate George Michael quits smoking dope after falling out of a car at 70 mph.
- A 19-year-old Congo exchange student jumped to his death in Denver after eating pot cookie "legally" bought by a friend. Coroner tests for a hundred different drugs, but finds only marijuana in this man's system.
- Michael Brown's autopsy doctor says that Ferguson, Missouri's Brown had been smoking marijuana shortly before his strong-arm robbery, struggle with a police officer, and resulting death.
- Oct. 12: Which of these two criminals arrested in the past week smoke pot? The guy in his 30s who stole an ambulance and drove it home, or the guy in his 20s who stole a train and crashed it? Neither of the initial reports mention marijuana, but the chances are nil that neither of these dimwits smoke pot.
continue at kgov.com/pot...