Cannabis and the Brain

The Effects of Marijuana on the Teenage and Young Adult Brain

Marijuana use during adolescence and young adulthood may affect this development and can lead to impaired learning and memory.

Cannabis and the brain - Oxford Academic

Central effects of cannabinoids include disruption of psychomotor behaviour, short‐term memory impairment, intoxication, stimulation of appetite, ...

How Marijuana Affects the Brain & Body | Dr. Andrew Huberman

Dr. Andrew Huberman explains how cannabis affects the brain and body. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ...

Marijuana's effect on the body and brain - Maine.gov

marijuana use. • THC affects the (cannabinoid receptors) parts of the brain that influence pleasure, memory, thinking, sensory, ...

Surgeon General's Advisory: Marijuana Use & the Developing Brain

This advisory is intended to raise awareness of the known and potential harms to developing brains, posed by the increasing availability of highly potent ...

Brain imaging study shows how THC in cannabis disrupts brain ...

A new study led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital reveals that the main psychoactive component in cannabis or marijuana ...

Using marijuana may affect your ability to think and plan, study says

Studies have long shown that getting high can harm cognitive function. A January 2022 review of research, published in the journal Addiction, ...

Long-term effects of marijuana use on the brain | PNAS

Our findings suggest that chronic marijuana use is associated with complex neuroadaptive processes and that onset and duration of use have unique effects on ...

Cannabis health effects - Canada.ca

Cannabis contains substances that affect the brain and body, including delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD).

Recent Evidence on the Relation Between Cannabis Use, Brain ...

Heavy cannabis use and CUD are associated with structural brain changes—particularly volume—as well as altered resting-state functional ...

Does Marijuana Kill Brain Cells? - Addiction Center

Just as years of heavy alcohol, meth, and heroin use can cause some irreversible brain damage, prolonged marijuana abuse can affect the ability ...

Does marijuana hurt or help your brain? Scientists rush to study the ...

It appears that, during some critical period in brain development, cannabis has this effect on the brain that actually disrupts normal ...

Cannabis Use in Adolescence May Alter Development of Cerebral ...

Cannabis-related brain changes are not well studied, but new research mapping such changes in 799 adolescents suggests how cannabis use in ...

Everything you need to know about the way cannabis affects your ...

Marijuana can disrupt how young brains develop – but in older adults, it can boost the neural connections associated with memory and learning.

Effects of Marijuana Misuse on the Brain - DrugFreeCT.org

Memory impairment from marijuana use occurs because THC alters how the hippocampus (a brain area responsible for memory formation) processes information. Most ...

Understanding How Cannabis Use Affects Brain Development and ...

A full research program dedicated to understanding how cannabis and other drugs affect brain development as well as physical and mental health in young people.

Marijuana (Cannabis, Weed): What It Is, Side Effects & Risks

Your blood carries THC to the brain and other organs. Your body absorbs THC more slowly if you eat or drink it — you typically experience the effects after 30 ...

Cannabis Health Effects - CDC

1 Cannabis use may have a wide range of health effects on the body and brain.2 Click on the sections below to learn more about how cannabis use ...

Alcohol 'more damaging to brain health than marijuana'

A new study suggests that when it comes to brain health, alcohol is more damaging. Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder conducted a review of ...

The Effects of Cannabis on the Teenage Brain - PBS Learning Media

Learn how cannabis may affect growth and function in the developing brain, in this video clip from NOVA: The Cannabis Question.