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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHarvard study: smoking weed improves brain functions
Harvard Study: Smoking Weed Improves Brain Functions
Cognitive function goes better with pot.
Allan MacDonell
ALLAN MACDONELL
Editorial Director. Author of 'Prisoner of X' and 'Punk Elegies.'
People are forever wandering onto KINDLAND territory and wondering out loud: What makes you people so goddamn smart?
Well, scientific findings recently published in Frontiers in Pharmacology may have cleared up that mystery once and for all. Preliminary investigations by medical researchers from McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Tufts University indicate that pot use improves cognitive performance.
Cognitive performance, no need to tell you, is our ability to utilize the knowledge acquired by mental processes in our brains. In other words, perform tasks that require thinking, as in to be so goddamn smart.
The behavioral scientists behind the work summarized in Splendor in the Grass? A Pilot Study Assessing the Impact of Medical Marijuana on Executive Function tracked 24 certified medical-marijuana patients over a three-month dosing period. The patients were repeatedly measured for cognitive proficiency through challenges to the intelligence that included the Stroop Color Word Test and Trail Making Test.
Staci Gruber, PhD, director of the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program at McLean HospitalHarvard Medical Schools largest psychiatric affiliateis the lead Splendor in the Grass? researcher. Her initial report is twofold positive. For one thing, weed treatment led to patients
More here: http://www.thekindland.com/wellness/harvard-study-smoking-weed-improves-brain-functions-2330
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Harvard study: smoking weed improves brain functions (Original Post)
ghostsinthemachine
Feb 2017
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. I knew that. eom
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)2. Well... Duh.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)3. Gonna be getting smart AF later tonight
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)4. I've been saying that for 50 years.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)5. Hmm, Drunk vs. Stoned...
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)6. The study noted a 42% reduction in opioid use. Maybe that
was a factor in improved cognition.
"...We saw a 42 percent reduction in opioid use, reported Gruber. This is significant, particularly for those of us in Massachusetts and other areas of the country where the opioid epidemic is ravaging so many. This preliminary finding certainly warrants deeper and broader investigation.....