Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ

http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_cannabis [wikipedia.org]
But of course, that's all lies and false propaganda right?

The first link obviously is, that's like asking Newt Gingrich if Obama's a good president. You might as well cite High Times for an equally biased view of pot. However, you didn't read the wikipedia link, did you?

A study of the development of 59 Jamaican children was conducted with the children being monitored from childbirth to age 5 years... The results over the entire research period showed no significant differences in development testing outcomes between using and non-using mothers. At 30 days of age, however, the children of marijuana-using mothers had higher scores on autonomic stability and reflexes
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Research has shown a substantial percentage of cannabis users develop cannabis-related problems, including dependency.

If you do anything whatever every single day for a year, you're going to miss it if you no longer have it. Dependancy != addiction. Addiction has physical withdrawal symptoms; tobacco, alcohol, heroin, coffee are addictive. Orange juice and marijuana can introduce dependancies. Hell, there's a woman in my office who almost freaked out because the vending machine was out of little chocolate donuts and she'd been eating them every day for years. Yes, smoke pot every day for a year and you'll miss it when you can't find it... but you won't freak out or steal for it.

Cannabis use has been assessed by several studies[23] to be correlated with the development of anxiety, psychosis, and depression

You know about correlation and causation, of course. Marijuana eases symptoms of depression and anxiety, and probably psychosis as well. They're putting the cart before the horse here. Smoking pot doesn't make you crazy, being crazy makes you smoke pot. From your link: "A recent study has shown that cannabidiol (a major constituent of cannabis) may be as effective as atypical antipsychotics in treating schizophrenia."

Gateway drug hypothesis

You'll find many pot smoker to deny a link, but there is a clear link: the same people who sell pot also sell other drugs. In short, the drug laws themselves cause it to be a gateway drug.

A 2002 longitudinal study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal concluded that "marijuana does not have a long-term negative impact on global intelligence [in adults]
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Cannabis smoke contains thousands of organic and inorganic chemicals in the tar. This includes many of the same carcinogens as tobacco smoke.

Odd that a two year old study wasn't mentioned here. Researchers thought that because of the facts cited above, that marijuana would cause cancer, so they did a test on very long term (>30 years) users. They had four groups: nonsmokers, pot smokers, cigarette smokers, and users of both tobacco and marijuana. They expected the users of pot to have as many or more cancers than cigarette smokers and users of both to have far more, but their research showed the opposite: those who smoked both pot and cigarettes had half the cancers of those who only smoked cigarettes, and those who smoked only pot amazingly had fewer cancers than nonsmokers, although the difference was statistically insignifigant.

So put that in your pipe and smoke it. Gees... drugabuse.org, why not cite the partnership for a drug-free america as well? Sheesh!

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/bcC4P2S0qN8/study-shows-marijuana-use-in-teens-correlates-to-decreasing-iq

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