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Cannabis and the Young Brain: Prohibition’s Forgotten Victims

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 07/07/2015 - 15:12

Listen to Rona Ambrose, Canada’s Health Minister, or Nora Volkow, America’s Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and you will soon conclude that cannabis prohibition today rests on a single, nearly unassailable platform: it is bad for youth.  As expressed today, this claim is based on research published in the Journal of Neuroscience in April 2014.  Researchers looked at brain differences in 40 young people:  20 who had, and 20 had not been ‘smoking marijuana.’   The scans in the first group showed ‘abnormalities’ in the amygdala and nucleus accumbens, brain areas associated with emotion, memory, decision-making and motivation.  Scans are not self-interpreting, and scientific interpreters have yet to determine what these particular results mean.  Meanwhile the articles have spawned concern, and a bit too much policy.

Whether out of similar concern or for other reasons, activists in nations, states and towns now regulating cannabis agree universally that recreational...

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