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Harvard Study: Smoking Weed Improves Brain Functions

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by Soren Dreier

Recent findings that have been published in Frontiers in Pharmacology have indicated that ,marijuana does, indeed, improve cognitive performance.

Researchers from McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Tufts University have begun preliminary investigations that have found incredible benefits from the plant’s use, including the improvement to “our ability to utilize the knowledge acquired by mental processes in our brains.”

24 patients were studied over a three-month history.  The patients were consistently measured with cognitive testing, including the Stroop Color Word Test and the Trail Making Test.

They found the patients did extremely well on the tests.

From a McLean Hospital report:

After three months of medical marijuana treatment, patients actually performed better, in terms of their ability to perform certain cognitive tasks, specifically those mediated by the frontal cortex,” explained Staci Gruber, PhD, director of the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program at McLean Hospital.

Study participants also reported improvements in their specific clinical conditions, sleep, and overall health as well as a decreased use of conventional medications, particularly opiates.

We saw a 42 percent reduction in opioid use,” reported Gruber. “This is significant, particularly for those of us in Massachusetts and other areas of the country where the opioid epidemic is ravaging so many. This preliminary finding certainly warrants deeper and broader investigation.

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    • Fokofpoes

      Here’s what it does (imo), it makes you more “schizophrenic”, as schizophrenia is the ability to relate and consider.

      That is to say, the more you are able to relate and consider, the more schizophrenic you’re classifed as, also, from what I’ve read, it shortens neural pathways and increases neural “bandwidth”. That would, ironically, make you faster and more connected.

      Anyone who’s ever smoked weed knows what I mean, you consider lots of crap you wouldn’t “normally” consider.

      There is a catch with that though (again, imo), for some people that is not a great thing as they start recognizing or considering things that are less than “scientific” or counter to the typically promoted consensus, society and culture, maybe even introspectively, resulting in a sense of paranoia from past ignorance.

      Honestly, I smoked marijuana for like 2 decades, I wouldn’t recommend smoking it though, but I wouldn’t say you shouldn’t smoke it, either. Personally, I find the schizophrenic/relationary stuff a bit too much these days, but I guess that varies from person to person. My one friend, for instance, completely freaked out the first time he smoked weed.

      • Fokofpoes

        Btw, I’m currently quite inebriated (as I have been for the last 2 years or so, all day, every day), I’m uneducated, not english, I severely lack vitamin b12 (according to medical types). So, you probably shouldn’t believe me when I tell you reality is a lie.

        Just, be careful with the weed (especially the sort of weed that is being sold these days, GMO, etc), it’s not for everyone, if you know what I mean. Consider the “convenient” timing of legalization attempts, these sort of studies, etc.

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