Marijuana affecting the brains and mental health of teenagers?

Examiner ^ | September 13, 2013 | Martha

[usalady]

As more U.S. states increase legalization and increased accessibility of marijuana a recent scientific study reveals that the negative impact on the brains of teenagers is being ignored.

[usalady]

Recent research from the authors of the study, Didier Jutras-Aswad of the University of Montreal and Dr. Yasmin Hurd of New York’s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sanai in New York City released a statement.

[Rio]

Choom Gang

[Does so]

Neither link connects.

[fungoking]

Broken link so I couldn’t read the article.

I teach AP psychology and have read where more and more psychologist are blaming the use of illegal and prescription drugs by kids on the increase in schizophrenia later in life.

The theory is that we really don’t know what effect these drugs have on brain development which doesn’t end until the early 20s. Symptons of schizophrenia don’t tend to deveople until the mid 20s.

If true, a lot of fall out for drugging children for behavior disorders.

[fungoking]

Fat fingers + small keypad = spelling mistakes.

[ansel12]

If you look at the part of the world (the Middle East and that area of the Orient) where cannabis came from and has been used for thousands of years as an intoxicant, then you will see a startling resemblance to the pot-heads that we all know.

The kind of behavior and appearance, and thinking changes that we have seen happen within weeks of teens being absorbed into the pot cloud, the worm in the brain that seems to almost instantly reshape the individual into a type, a group, a pod person.

[dfwgator]

"Dude...wait...uhhh....whut?"

[Nifster]

simple answer is YES

[Marguerite]

“Marijuana affecting the brains and mental health of teenagers?”

Of course. Smoking a full joint equals drinking a pint of wine - bottoms up. It’s like getting instantly drunk.

[aruanan]

If you look at the part of the world (the Middle East and that area of the Orient) where cannabis came from and has been used for thousands of years as an intoxicant, then you will see a startling resemblance to the pot-heads that we all know.

The kind of behavior and appearance, and thinking changes that we have seen happen within weeks of teens being absorbed into the pot cloud, the worm in the brain that seems to almost instantly reshape the individual into a type, a group, a pod person.

In the second paragraph you are referring to an extremely limited sample size (if it is actually a sample size and not just from watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and extrapolating that to all members of a group.

You do the same in the first paragraph with the added twist that you are ignoring other much more relevant factors that explain psychological phenomena in the Middle East (excluding the non-Muslims of Israel and Jews in other Middle Eastern countries). The problem isn't pot, it's the wrong kind of pork. Do you know how prevalent amongst Muslims in that region the practice is of marrying one's first cousin?

Here's a breakdown:

Algiers: 34%
Bahrain: 46%
Egypt: 33%
Iraq: 60%
Jordan: 64%
Kuwait: 64%
Lebanan: 42%
Libya: 48%
Mauritania: 47%
Nubia: 80%
Pakistan: 70%
Qatar: 54%
Saudi Arabia: 67%
Sudan: 63%
Syria: 40%
Tunisian: 39%
Turkey: 25-30%
United Arab Emirates: 54%
Yemen: 45%
(Reproductive Health Journal, 2009 Consanguinity and reproductive health among Arabs)

The rate of genetic disorders (deaths due to autosomal disorders among Pakistanis is 1800% higher in Norway than the population at large), mental retardation, and various types of insanity (Ethnic minorities overrepresented among the criminal insane) is many-fold higher among children of first cousin marriages than among those who are not consanguinous. But never let something like plausibility get in the way of someone who is a substance crusader.

[fr_freak]

Of course its use will have a negative effect on growing teenagers, as would any other toxin, such as alcohol. That’s why any responsible legalization advocate would never suggest that it should be legal for underage people, any more than alcohol is.

[GeronL]

There are libertarians who drag their kids to pot festivals and who knows what else. There are plenty of advocates for underage drinking on FR too, “all good fun” they say.

Pot should never be legal for anyone and those selling it should be jailed, as should those advocating it.

[RaceBannon]

Bump

[ansel12]

In the second paragraph you are referring to an extremely limited sample size (if it is actually a sample size and not just from watching Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and extrapolating that to all members of a group.

No, I'm talking about what we have seen a thousand times and witnessed all of our lives.

As far as the areas where cannabis originated and has been used as an intoxicant for thousands of years, I'm talking about well before Islam was invented by them only 1400 years ago.

[usalady]

Try this link

http://www.examiner.com/article/marijuana-affecting-the-brains-and-mental-health-of-teenagers

[fr_freak]

Pot should never be legal for anyone and those selling it should be jailed, as should those advocating it.

I'm not sure why you would think it is ok for the government to be able to tell GROWN people what they could smoke, because that seems to go against the very concept of a free people, but if we were to set that question aside and accept that grown people should be prevented from using pot, what is your opinion on the overgrown and abusive law enforcement system that has arisen from the effort to outlaw such drugs? Are you cool with the police state tactics being employed? How is the prohibition of pot any different from the prohibition of alcohol?