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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 It Turns out the Worst Rumors About Marijuana Are Dead Wrong 🌿It Turns out the Worst Rumors About Marijuana Are Dead Wrong
Researchers have come to some remarkable conclusions about the effects of marijuana use in recent years—how it reduces pain and helps heal fractured bones—but surely long-term use poses health concerns, right? Not really, says Jordan Bechtold, the lead researcher behind a new study on chronic adolescent use of cannabis.
Published in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behavior this month, the study looked at how long-term marijuana use affected teenage boys—physically and psychologically—and determined that the risks commonly attributed to chronic users are essentially unfounded. No, smoking a lot of pot over a long timespan does not, as others have argued, lead to depression, psychosis, lung cancer, asthma, or heart problems.
"I think we were most surprised that the prevalence of mental health disorders was not elevated among the chronic high marijuana users," Bechtold told ATTN:. "This was surprising because mental health problems are often more...
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