Teenage cannabis smokers face NO increased risk of mental or physical health problems, shock ...
Researchers 'surprised' after watching adolescent weed lovers dodge depression, psychosis and even asthma.
Heavy weed smoking during adolescence does NOT increase boys' risk of developing mental or physical health problems later in life, astonishing new research has claimed.
The findings fly in the face of previous studies which claimed cannabis use can alter teens' brain structure and ruin their memory.
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Rutgers University tracked 408 males from adolescence into their mid-30s.
They expected to see teenage cannabis users face an increased risk of developing lung cancer, asthma, depression or psychotic symptoms including delusions and hallucinations.
But they found no connection between illness and weed smoking whatsoever.
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The study is one of only a handful which has traced the lives of cannabis smokers for more than two decades.
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