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Cannabis 'damages teens' IQ'

The major study into the effect of long term and persistent cannabis use has found the drug permanently damages IQ, memory and attention span. The study shows the drug has a different and more damaging effect on teenagers than adults.

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Cannabis study explains why 'users end up achieving less'

Professor Robin Murray from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London has called a major study into the effect of long term and persistent cannabis use "very impressive".

Professor Murray said that if the same results were found in other research, public education campaigns should be launched:

There are far fewer studies on its effect on minor psychiatric illness or on everyday life. However, there are a lot of clinical and educational anecdotal reports that cannabis users tend to be less successful in their educational achievement, marriages and occupations.

It is of course part of folk-lore among young people that some heavy users of cannabis seem to gradually lose their abilities and end up achieving much less than one would have anticipated.

This study provides one explanation as to why this might be the case.

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