Can Weed Boost Your Cognitive Performance?
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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.A pilot study hints at potential cognitive benefits to regular medical marijuana use, but the scope and scale of the study made it hard to draw definite conclusions.
On October 13 2016, the scientific journal Frontiers in Neuroscience published a pilot study that investigated the effect of regular medical marijuana use on cognitive function. According to the researchers (composed of scientists from Harvard University, Tufts University, and Mclean Hospital), this was the first study to address the effects using the same test subjects before and after medical marijuana (MMJ) use:
To our knowledge, the current pilot study marks the first investigation to specifically examine cognitive performance and related measures in MMJ patients prior to initiation of treatment relative to performance following regular MMJ use.
Broadly, the study (which is part of a larger, ongoing effort) subjected 11 “marijuana naïve” individuals to a series of cognitive tests, clinical mental health tests, and...
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