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Marijuana Users Have Better Cognitive Skills, Study Finds
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A new study on college students has linked marijuana use with better performance on certain brain-related tasks.
Despite popular belief, new findings from a team at the University of Minnesota suggest marijuana use at an early age may not be that detrimental to cognitive function.
“Marijuana users were high functioning, demonstrating comparable IQs to controls and relatively better processing speed,” note the researchers.
The study, published March 12 in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, found that college students who used marijuana scored better on tests of processing speed and verbal fluency.
The study compared the performance of 35 non-users with 35 daily marijuana users who began using marijuana before the age of 17.
“Marijuana users were high functioning”“Marijuana use during this age span has been most strongly associated with cognitive impairment,” the team writes.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/01/marijuana-users-have-better-cognitive-skills-study-finds/
it doesn’t surprise me that the exact opposite happens from what we are led to believe.