Effects of Heavy Marijuana Use on Learning and Social Behavior

Call your attention to the research which was made on students. A study of college students has demonstrated that critical skills linked to attention, memory, and learning are damaged among people who make use of marijuana deeply. It was contrasted 65 "heavy users," who had smoked marijuana a median of 29 of the past 30 days, and 64 "light users," who had smoked a median of 1 of the past 30 days. Later than a closely monitored 19- to 24-hour period of not using marijuana and alcohol, the students were offered numerous tests measuring characteristics of attention, memory, and learning. Heavy marijuana users made more mistakes and had more complexity supporting attention, changing attention to meet the demands of changes in the environment, and in registering, processing, and using information. So we can see that the greater harm among heavy users is probable because of an alteration of brain activity made by marijuana.

Moreover long study on marijuana use among students pointed to those who used marijuana have poorer achievement than the non-users, more acceptance of deviant behavior, more criminal behavior and violence, greater rebelliousness, poorer relationships with parents, and more associations with aberrant and drug-using pals.