Marijuana impairs adolescent brain function
October 15th, 2008 | 4 Comments
And, goodness knows, adolescents need all the brain function they can muster. [C]hronic, heavy marijuana use during adolescence – a critical period of ongoing brain development – is associated with poorer performance on thinking tasks, including slower psychomotor speed and poorer complex attention, verbal memory and planning ability. Recent studies also indicate that teenage girls [...]





