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| Study: Little Damage From Marijuana United Press International | 05/08/06 NEW YORK, May 8 (UPI) -- In a preliminary study, U.S. researchers failed to find damage to the developing adolescent brain had occurred in those who had used marijuana moderately. Lynn DeLisi and colleagues from the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research and New York University School of Medicine used diffusion tensor imaging to scan the brain of 10 young people who had smoked cannabis during adolescence. The participants were between 17 and 30 years old, and they said they had smoked at least two to three times a week for one or more years during adolescence and had no personal or family history of mental-health problems. The study subjects were matched for sex, age and social class of parents with 10 controls who had not smoked marijuana regularly as teenagers. DeLisi and colleagues found no significant differences in brain integrity and brain volume between cannabis smokers and non-smokers, but the study authors warn more research is necessary, both in a larger group of people and to see the effects of heavier use. The findings are published in Harm Reduction Journal.
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| It's always nice to hear research confirming that I haven't messed up my childhood smoking grass. Makes me feel all warm-and-fuzzy inside. Well, might as well celebrate by rolling a joint--well, I'll wait until the weekend.
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but great research. and i think they should do a larger-scale version of it, just to show that it still holds true.
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| My only problem with this study was the amount of participants (and they did warn more research needed to be done), because if a study was done with only 10 people that found smoking marijuana was dangerous, we'd be all over it....just my 2 cents. |
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