{"id":42282,"date":"2022-01-22T13:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T19:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=42282"},"modified":"2022-01-22T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T19:55:27","slug":"marijuana-produces-persistent-cognitive-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/marijuana-produces-persistent-cognitive-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Produces Persistent Cognitive Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><strong>Source: &#8220;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/cannabis-cognition-19945\/\">Cannabis Use Produces Persistent Cognitive Impairments<\/a>,&#8221; Neuroscience News, 20 January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A systematic review published today in the scientific journal\u00a0<em>Addiction<\/em> has found that cannabis use leads to acute cognitive impairments that may continue beyond the period of intoxication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The study found that cannabis intoxication leads to small to moderate cognitive impairments in areas including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>making decisions,<\/li>\n<li>suppressing inappropriate responses,<\/li>\n<li>learning through reading and listening,<\/li>\n<li>the ability to remember what one reads or hears, and<\/li>\n<li>the time needed to complete a mental task.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Laura Dellazizzo, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1111\/add.15764\">Evidence on the acute and residual neurocognitive effects of cannabis use in adolescents and adults: A systematic meta-review of meta-analyses<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Addiction<\/em>, 11 November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although acute intoxication can last several hours, research has revealed that THC is a fat-soluble compound that may be stored in body fat and, thus, gradually released into the bloodstream for months. &#8230; studies have shown impaired cognition that persists beyond the acute intoxication period in both adult and adolescent cannabis users, particularly in tasks related to learning and memory, attention and executive function.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: &#8220;Cannabis Use Produces Persistent Cognitive Impairments,&#8221; Neuroscience News, 20 January 2022. &#8220;A systematic review published today in the scientific journal\u00a0Addiction has found that cannabis use leads to acute cognitive impairments that may continue beyond the period of intoxication.&#8221; &#8220;The study found that cannabis intoxication leads to small to moderate cognitive impairments in areas including:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[372,540],"class_list":["post-42282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-drugs","tag-marijuana"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57690,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/dangers-of-recreational-marijuana\/","url_meta":{"origin":42282,"position":0},"title":"Dangers of Recreational Marijuana","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Source:\u00a0Dr. Liji Thomas, MD, \"Dangers of recreational\/medical cannabis use,\"\u00a0News Medical and Life Sciences, 26 October 2022. More people are using marijuana and starting at a younger age. \"Now that many American states have legalized cannabis, the already high rate of cannabis usage is increasing from ages as young as 16\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Issues&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":83761,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/marijuana-impacts-memory\/","url_meta":{"origin":42282,"position":1},"title":"Marijuana Impacts Memory","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Source:\u00a0Julia Milzer, \"Largest Study Ever Done on Cannabis and Brain Function Finds Impact on Working Memory,\" University of Colorado, 28 January 2025. \"The researchers found that 63% of heavy lifetime cannabis users exhibited reduced brain activity during a working memory task, while 68% of recent users also demonstrated a similar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Issues&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":46393,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/marijuanas-effects-on-the-brain\/","url_meta":{"origin":42282,"position":2},"title":"Marijuana&#8217;s Effects on the Brain","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: \"How Cannabis Affects Our Cognition and Psychology,\" Neuroscience News, 13 May 2022. \"... the main users are adolescents and young adults, whose\u00a0brains are still in development. They may therefore be\u00a0particularly vulnerable to the effects of cannabis use on the brain in the longer term.\" \"We showed that participants with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Issues&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25984,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/marijuana-permanently-lowers-iq\/","url_meta":{"origin":42282,"position":3},"title":"Marijuana Permanently Lowers IQ","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: Stephen Adams, \"Cannabis smoking 'permanently lowers IQ',\"\u00a0The Telegraph, 27 July 2012. Source: Madeline Meier, et al, \"Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife,\"\u00a0Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 30 July 2012. \"Researchers found persistent users of the drug, [marijuana], who started smoking it at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Issues&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2376,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/marijuana-and-mental-illness\/","url_meta":{"origin":42282,"position":4},"title":"Marijuana and Mental Illness","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Source:\u00a0Alex Berenson, \"Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence,\" Imprimis, vol. 48, no. 1, Jan 2019 \"They've told you marijuana has many different medical uses. In reality marijuana and THC, its active ingredient, have been shown to work only in a few narrow conditions. They are most commonly prescribed for pain relief.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Issues&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":60865,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/genetic-link-between-marijuana-use-and-psychiatric-disorders\/","url_meta":{"origin":42282,"position":5},"title":"Genetic Link Between Marijuana Use and Psychiatric Disorders","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"May 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: \"Shared Genetics for Cannabis Use and Psychiatric Disorders,\" Neuroscience News, 21 May 2023. \"Researchers discovered shared genetic underpinnings for cannabis use and psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.\" \"Some genetic variants can have opposing effects - increasing risk of cannabis use while decreasing the risk of schizophrenia or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Issues&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Issues","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/issues\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}