Long-Term Weed Use Could Mess With the “Reward”
Nearly everyone in the country agrees that marijuana, at least for medical use, should be entirely legal. But what does marijuana do to the brain?
For those of us who actually use it, the brain is an endlessly fascinating and undeniably dope organ. The brain is responsible for pretty much every single thing you could ever dream of accomplishing, including—first and foremost—feeling good. Not just kind of good, but also really fucking good. As part of this process of feeling good, the brain utilizes natural reward processes that are sparked by equally natural reward cues.
A new study from the Center for BrainHealth at the University of Texas at Dallas claims that chronic marijuana use may "disrupt" this process, with long-term consumers apparently displaying "more brain activity" in the intimidatingly named mesocorticolimbic-reward system. Researchers studied 59 weed-using adults and 70...
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