Wednesday - March 15, 2006

You Must Remember This

We’re all about to be in a lot of trouble. As the baby boomers grow old, we (yes, we!) are all beginning to develop memory problems. This is going to be especially troublesome for the Liberals who never stopped smoking marijuana after the 1960’s.

I admit, I indulged in the late 60’s while I was in college (yes, I inhaled) but haven’t had a need for it since. I see no reason for it to be illegal though. Other than the fact that there are going to be a lot of lost former hippies wandering around with their gray hair tied in ponytails, trying to remember what their name is. Sort of a “Night Of The Living Stoner” type thing, if you know what I mean. Now if I can only remember where I left the car keys ....

Marijuana Tied To Memory Problems
_{Mon Mar 13, 5:51 PM ET}

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)

People who regularly smoke marijuana may find their memories growing hazy over time, a study published Monday suggests. In a study of long-term and shorter-term marijuana users, researchers in Greece found that both groups performed more poorly on tests of memory, attention and other cognitive abilities than a comparison group who’d only occasionally used the drug.

Long-term users - who’d smoked four or more joints per week for at least 10 years - showed the greatest deficits. The findings, published in the journal Neurology, add to the conflicting body of research on the effects of marijuana on the brain. While many studies have suggested that long-time pot smoking dulls memory, attention span and mental acuity, some have found no large differences in these skills between marijuana users and non-users.

One recent analysis of 15 studies found only minor effects on memory among long-time pot users, and no clear effect on attention, language, reasoning and a number of other cognitive functions. One problem is that it’s difficult for studies such as the current one to establish a definite cause-and-effect relationship between marijuana and intellectual deficits, Dr. Lambros Messinis, the study’s lead author, told Reuters Health.

Though the researchers accounted for a number of variables—like education, use of other drugs and the presence of clinical depression—it’s tough to control for all the factors that could make heavy marijuana users different from other people, according to Messinis. Still, he and his colleagues say, their findings are in line with certain past studies linking heavy, long-term pot smoking to “subtle” deficits in intellectual abilities.

- Read the rest and try to remember your way back here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/15/2006 at 05:34 AM   
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