benefits of Marijuana and Canabis

benefits of Marijuana and Canabis

No Independent Study Has Ever Linked Marijuana To Psychosocial ProblemsCannabis is one of the most powerfulhealing plants on the planet. Dozens of studies have made pseudoscientific attempts to indicatethat young people who use cannabis tend to experience psychological, social problems and mental decline. However, there is no evidence that marijuana use is directly linked with such problems, according to the results of a study published in The Lancet.“Currently, there is no strong evidence that use of cannabis of itself causes psychological or social problems,” such as mental illness or school failure, lead study author Dr. John Macleod of the University of Birmingham in the UK told Reuters Health.“There is a great deal of evidence that cannabis use is associated with these things, but this association could have several explanations,” he said, citing factors such as adversity in early life, which may itself be associated with cannabis use and psychosocial problems.Macleod and his team reviewed 48 long-term studies, 16 of which provided the highest quality information about the association between illicit drug use reported by people 25 years old or younger and later psychological or social problems. Most of the drug-specific results involved cannabis use.Cannabis use was not consistently associated with violent or antisocial behavior, or with psychological problems.In another study, Scientists from King’s College, London, found occasional pot use could actually improve concentration levels.The study, carried in the American Journal of Epidemiology, tested the mental function and memory of nearly 9,000 Britons at age 50 and found that those who had used illegal drugs as recently as in their 40s did just as well, or slightly better, on the tests than peers who had never used drugs.‘Overall, at the population level, the results seem to suggest that past or even current illicit drug use is not necessarily associated with impairedcognitive functioning in early middle...

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