Is Weed Really Bad For You?
From destroying your memory to being a gateway drug, scientists doubt the common misconceptions about pot
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As pot activists fight for full legalization, the drug warriors who oppose them have long sought their own elusive grail: conclusive, scientific proof that marijuana poses significant health risks. The only problem? An unshakable dependence on flawed studies. “Much of what we believe in this society about drugs is just bullshit,” says Columbia University professor Carl Hart. “And we as scientists have been complicit.” Luckily, there’s a new generation of researchers pushing back against these oft-repeated prohibitionist canards.
MYTH: Pot ruins the teenage brain
This drug-warrior talking point has gained such traction recently that even respectable liberals like New York Times columnist Bill Keller regurgitate it as a self-evident truth. The only basis for this are shoddy reports like a recent international study purporting to link adolescent marijuana use with long-term IQ decline. “Do the authors believe that cannabis is the only thing that could affect your IQ between the ages of 13 and 38?” asks Norwegian economist Ole Røgeberg. “That puzzled me.”
MYTH: Pot can make you schizophrenic or depressed
Other studies have tried to engineer even bigger scares, claiming to demonstrate a connection between smoking pot as a teen and serious mental illnesses like depression or schizophrenia later on. “Give me a break,” says Hart. “You look at these studies and see how they determine psychosis – it’s a joke.” The same old logical fallacies show up here, too. “Which came first?” asks Suzi Gage, a Ph.D. student at the University of Bristol. “Did the cannabis use precede the mental-health problems, or is it that people who are psychotic use cannabis to self-medicate?”
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Fact: The shadow government loves illegal drugs as they control them as a source of cash for black ops.
All I have to say is ……RUN FROM THE CURE.
Yes, it’s bad. Drugs are for losers.
Lol. Specious. Remember what you just said the next time you have diarrhea and are running for that bottle of Pepto…..
in a word, NO!