Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds | Fox News

Casual marijuana use linked with brain abnormalities, study finds | Fox News: For the first time, researchers at Northwestern University have analyzed the relationship between casual use of marijuana and brain changes – and found that young adults who used cannabis just once or twice a week showed significant abnormalities in two important brain structures.






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The study’s findings, to be published Wednesday in the Journal of Neuroscience, are similar to those of past research linking chronic, long-term marijuana use with mental illness and changes in brain development.

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