If You Blazed Massive Amounts of Weed as a Youth, Scientists Have Interesting News

There's no brain fog here. When most smokers light up a joint, it's unlikely that "enhanced cognitive ability" is front-of-mind. Not shockingly, the long-held assumption from most tends to be that weed makes you dumb, and probably fries your brain permanently. Intriguingly, that argument might be going up in smoke. A recent study by researchers in — where else — Amsterdam appears to be good news for all you former teenage tokers out there, finding that the age at which men start smoking has no negative bearing on cognitive decline later in life. Adult stoners can also breathe a little easier from now on, as the research also found that those who use cannabis frequently as an adult show no greater cognitive decline in the long term than those who don't partake. The study canvassed 5,162 men born between 1949 and 1961, who were sorted into two groups based on whether they had a history of using marijuana. From there, the participants who smoked were sorted into age groups based on wh ... Read full article.