If you smoke weed for five years or more, on a daily basis, prepare to
lose your eloquence.
A study by a team of
researchers from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, published earlier
this year, found that people who smoked marijuana on a daily basis for a long
period of time had poorer verbal memory in their middle age, than
others.
This occured when controlling for a number of other factors, such
as age, education, other substance use and mental health
issues.
The team found that the relationship between marijuana use and
memory problems was fairly direct - that the more pot people smoked, the worse
they performed in memory tests.
Although the difference wasn't stark over five years - the more
years for which you smoke daily the more you compound the issue. The
Independent.
