Teenage pot smoking may lower IQ – for life

I'd be alot more inclined to take this seriously if they also did the same study on alcohol. I mean its used more commonly than marijuana, and god knows how that affects a developing brain/body, especially the way teenagers drink.

Not that chronic use of cannabis when your brain is still heavily developing is a good idea either. Just sayin.
 
^ But the effects of cannabis are completely independent of the effects of alcohol.
They are two totally unrelated things.
Whether cannabis harms your brain, or not, will be something that research on cannabis (eventually) tells us, not research on alcohol!
Your political agenda has clouded your scientific analysis.
 
slimvictor said:
^ But the effects of cannabis are completely independent of the effects of alcohol.
They are two totally unrelated things.
Whether cannabis harms your brain, or not, will be something that research on cannabis (eventually) tells us, not research on alcohol!
Your political agenda has clouded your scientific analysis.
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True. Really i just assume people think alcohol isn't going to lower your IQ significantly, at least not with moderate use. I guess the grip i had is that tons of people will use this to rationalize the prohibition of cannnabis, whilst agreeing that alcohol does the same thing in regards to the arbitrary measure of IQ and not have a problem with it being legal. So the study is fine, just how i imagine people will interpret it. Very true that thats not very scientific though, definitely political. And politics/scientific evidence should rightly be completely independent.
 
A big fucking LOL @ how so many times people will bust out "study this says X" and people nod their head and affirm, rarely questioning the validity of science, the all-knowing God, but when it's about marijuana...
 
daytryptr said:
True. Really i just assume people think alcohol isn't going to lower your IQ significantly, at least not with moderate use. I guess the grip i had is that tons of people will use this to rationalize the prohibition of cannnabis, whilst agreeing that alcohol does the same thing in regards to the arbitrary measure of IQ and not have a problem with it being legal. So the study is fine, just how i imagine people will interpret it. Very true that thats not very scientific though, definitely political. And politics/scientific evidence should rightly be completely independent.
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Then we agree completely.
We even fear the same things - the public opinion of the news, and the social control that leads to people saying things like "alcohol and drugs".
 
ugly said:
I do not trust studies. Especially in the U.S. during an election year.

and Obama, if you happen to be reading this, you sold us down the river with medical m.j. Now there are going to be a flurry of studies showing marijuana in a bad light? That's convenient.

Romney is a Mormon so enough said about him.

I'm so glad I have a little crop. I wish it was bigger since the government in the U.S. is getting more conservative each day.

I wish I could move to Canada.
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Our current government is more conservative than your current government. Actually Fuhrer Harper is almost universally detested among liberals here for trying to make Canada into America.
 
KamMoye said:
A big fucking LOL @ how so many times people will bust out "study this says X" and people nod their head and affirm, rarely questioning the validity of science, the all-knowing God, but when it's about marijuana...
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No doubt.
People trust "a scientific study" far more than they should, and see science as a God.
But only when it matches their own agenda!

"Wine and coffee are good for you!" Unless you read all of the relevant research, which shows both positive and negative effects.

Science is a powerful tool, but should not be seen as a God.
It is constantly changing, and what was considered common sense just a century ago is now considered ridiculous.
What we think of as scientific truth now will be edited as science progresses, and in another century they will be laughing at us.
(We hope!)
 
I find it funny that the only thing to attack about this study is the scientific process itself, which is happening. Either that or admit that early cannabis use was probably permanently detrimental for yourself.

Make no mistake, I am in the category of early, chronic, cannabis use.
 
What defines "Abuse" or "heavy use"? The anti-drug propaganda proponents will claim that even just one time use, or maybe smoking a few times a week, or a few times a month is "Abuse".

I have also heard that IQ tests are culturally and class biased.

Also what about how TONS of teenagers or underage kids abuse alcohol, and that's a lot more worse for you. Yeah I did drink as a teenager/young adult but looking back it was social drinking and I didn't really abuse alcohol until I was in my early 20s at 22 but I don't drink at all now.

This "study" also assumes that you can't increase your IQ which you can.
 
technically using an illegal drug for something other than a federally recognized medical disorder is abuse

IQ tests are totally bias

it would be nice to see the study replicated with alcohol, but that does not take away from what cannabis does

where did it say that?
 
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