According to an article in today's Time Magazine online,
"A study being released this week by researchers
from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and Harvard Medical
School has found that 18- to 25-year-olds who smoke marijuana only
recreationally showed significant abnormalities in the brain." For the
study’s purposes, “recreationally” was considered a joint or two on the
weekends, which many parents might not find any more alarming than casual beer
drinking. But the study’s findings show that even those who smoked just one
joint a week altered the density, volume, and shape of two key parts of the still
developing brain—the nucleus accumbens and the amygdala. It was a small study,
but if it shows this much impact on the brains of 18-25 year olds, imagine how
recreational marijuana use could be effecting younger, even more vulnerable
brains…
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