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How are teenage cannabis use and adult depression connected?
Rationale: Cannabis affects mood and mental health, with effects building up over time. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to these harms, yet the relationship between cannabis use, depression, and anxiety has…
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Exploring the ties between adolescent cannabis use and adult mental health
Rationale: The current body of evidence relates early cannabis use to psychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression, and suicidality later in life. To examine this correlation further, researchers looked over…
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Can smoking weed lead to a stroke?
Rationale: There has been a 70% rise in the risk of having a stroke for all ages in the last 30 years. A large portion of the increase is thought…
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Lasting impacts of cannabis use among youth
Rationale: There is rising concern, especially for young users of cannabis, that the drug may impair neurocognition. Neurocognition includes problem solving, abstract reasoning, language production and interpretation, and attention, which…
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Is cannabis use making depression and suicidal thoughts worse in teens?
Rationale: Our brains undergo a crucial stage of development during adolescence. Major depressive disorder and suicide are especially common during this time. Evidence shows that cannabis use is twice as…
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Does infrequent cannabis use affect the adolescent brain?
Rationale: Prior research shows decreased brain volume in regular cannabis users. However, not much is known about the effect of low-dose, recreational cannabis use during adolescence. Method: Researchers compared brains,…
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Is cannabis shrinking your brain?
Researchers found that even 1 to 2 times using cannabis produces excess thinning of the prefrontal cortex, and more use leads to even greater shrinking.