Trends & Articles Study Finds that Marijuana Recreational Use Laws May Have Led to Dip in Teenage Use by Sophia Vida July 09, 2019 According to new study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, legal recreational marijuana use in some states may have slightly resulted in a reduction of teenage use of the drug. Lead author of the study, Mark Anderson, a health...
Science related (Medical) Marijuana Use in Teens Linked to Higher Chance of Depression Later by Sophia Vida February 14, 2019 According to a study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, researchers from McGill and Oxford Universities analyzed 11 studies that covered nearly 24,000 teens and discovered a link between marijuana use in teens and depressi...
Science related (Medical) Study Says Marijuana May Change Decision Making Part of Teenagers’ Brains by Sophia Vida November 09, 2018 A new study done on rats has found that using marijuana during teenage years may change the decision making part of the brain. Study coauthor Eliza Jacobs-Brichford spoke at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience on...
Trends & Articles Teens Are Using Less Marijuana in California by Sophia Vida August 25, 2018 California has seen a drop in how many middle and high school students use marijuana in both 2016 and 2017 according to a state-funded health survey. The 16th biennial California Healthy Kids Survey has found that just 4.2 perc...
Science related (Medical) Use of Marijuana in Teenagers May Reverse Schizophrenia Symptoms by Sophia Vida September 14, 2017 According to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, marijuana may be able to reverse schizophrenia-like symptoms in teenagers. Researchers from the University of Western Ontario in Canada used laboratory rats to s...