Feds Make Important Admission About Marijuana and Kids
Flying a bit under the radar in August, the federal National Institute on Drug Abuse wrote an explainer to a significant longitudinal study involving young twins and marijuana pointing out that marijuana did not cause a decrease in IQ.
In the explainer titled "Study Questions Role for Marijuana in Teen Users' IQ Decline," the agency wrote:
"In a recent study sponsored by NIDA and the National Institute of Mental Health, teens who used marijuana lost IQ points relative to their nonusing peers. However, the drug appeared not to be the culprit."
Instead, the culprit for the differences in IQ between kids who used marijuana and kids who didn't was, you guessed it, their families and other environmental factors. Again, the agency writes:
The researchers propose that marijuana users fall behind in IQ because they have experienced adverse familial influences that decrease their motivation to learn and predispose them to
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