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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.Every time my mom, a campus supervisor at a Southern California public high school, busts underage kids for pot, the students push back with the same protest: Haven’t you seen the news? Weed is totally harmless! Weed is good for you!
It’s true, the benefits of cannabis—from the medical to the sexual—are finally making their way back into mainstream American discourse after decades of vilification. But cannabis is a complicated plant, and its physiological effects on the adolescent brain are still largely unknown—a message teens aren’t receiving.
“There is growing evidence that repeated exposure to cannabis that begins during adolescence is associated with a decline in IQ of about 10 points when subjects are tested in adulthood,” says Sanjiv Kumra, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School who has studied cannabis’ effects in young people. “This effect is not seen in adult users of cannabis.”
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