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How could cannabis alter the teenage brain?
When a teenager smokes cannabis are they permanently damaging their brain and dulling their intellect for a lifetime?
The dangers of smoking cannabis, and the potential health benefits, have been a source of controversy for many years. The latest study on the drug suggested heavy and prolonged cannabis smoking as a teenager resulted in a permanently lower IQ.
But how could cannabis have this effect on the brain and why might teenagers be particularly susceptible?
via BBC News – How could cannabis alter the teenage brain?.
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I have never doubted this article and I sure many teenagers out there smoking cannabis already know that about the risks related but choose not to care about these risk factors. Most definitely something associated with being “cool” or peer pressure.