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Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ
retroworks writes "The BBC reports on a paper published in the U.S.'s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing a correlation between persistent, regular cannabis use and risk of lower IQ. The study finds the risk particularly correlates use of cannabis by teenagers who use the drug "four times a week year after year." The more people smoked, the greater the loss in IQ. Reviewers of the study at King's College Institute of Psychiatry states that the data and methodology are exceptional, but she also cautions that there may be another explanation, such as depression, which could lower IQ while stimulating marijuana use. The study does not mention or rule out 'nocebo' effects, i.e. just feeling stupid for spending your teens hanging out with potheads."
Sure fucked your grammar, however.
Wait... You fucked your gramma too?
Marijuana addiction does exist in heavy users.
In a stroke of irony, Scientific American just posted an article on "digital natives" found here.
Now, who hasn't done their research?
Right. Because you like something (or someone, for that matter), and another entity releases information that's negative toward the object of your affection, there MUST be a conspiracy behind it, whether governmental, military, corporate, political ... it's the only logical option when you can't hold two conflicting ideas about what you like (that is, it can have both good and bad aspects at the same time).
(Preparing for negative moderation in 3, 2, 1...)
It's just like the people who because they like Wikileaks cannot even consider the possibility that Julian Assange may actually have f***ed a girl when she was sleeping to work around her refusal to consent to unprotected sex the night before, and that such an act would be rape.
Powell: "So, what are we doing?" Cheney: "Oh, crime." Powell: "Crime? Good, OK... crime..."