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Can Marijuana make you smarter?
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"April 2, 2002 --
Smoking five or more marijuana joints a week can make you feel stupid -- really. A new study shows heavy marijuana use can actually lower your IQ (intelligence quotient).
Researchers say it's one of the first studies to look at the long-term effects of marijuana on intelligence. Although the immediate, mind-numbing effects** of marijuana are well known, it's been difficult to study the long-term effects on users because researchers often don't have a starting point before marijuana use began on which to base their measurements.

In this study, which appears in the April 2 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, researchers compared the IQ scores of 70 participants before they started smoking pot (aged 9-12) with their current scores at age 17-20. Among heavy users who currently smoked more than five joints a week, IQ scores dropped by an average of 4.1 points.

But among light users (fewer than five joints a week)*, researchers found gains in IQ scores of about 5.8 points. Former users and non-users also had slight increases in their scores -- of 3.5 and 2.6, respectively.”



This means there is a balance of how much to smoke. A balance of about fewer than five joints a week*, which can increase your IQ 5.8 points. A difference in increase of 2.3-3.2 points compared to a former or non-smoker. Meaning that your IQ score may gain around three points if you smoke just fewer than five joints a week, than if you do not smoke at all. I can feel that marijuana increases your ability to think in some way. Sometimes it seems to make you think fast bringing what they call the, immediate, mind-numbing effects**, as it may be too fast. The only reason I have seen for stating marijuana to be illegal was that there was no way to correctly and easily measure a dosage. Well how about fewer than 5 joints a week for a dosage?