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Cannabis Smoking 'Permanently Lowers IQ'
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"...“persistent users” who started as teenagers suffered a drop of eight IQ points at the age of 38, compared to when they were 13."
Oh, for cryin' out loud, this test is flawed!! Everyone knows that 13-year-olds know EVERYTHING, so it's bound to be downhill from there.
And now I know why I no longer know everything. ;) The "study" is flawed for a whole host of other reasons. For one thing, it's a statistical study done over the course of 40 years with a tiny (1000) sample group from an obscure location(Dunedin, New Zealand.) The article does not provide much more statistical data-such as an R2 or even SD-so that the strength of the correlation(s) can be determined-so one would need to get access to the journal(which is not devoted to psychiatry, biology, medicine, or pharmacology, but is instead 'multi-disciplinary'-another red flag)that it was published in.
I had attached a caption to this originally that read something like, "They've studied it, mmmKay? Stop whining when they shoot your dog." that was somehow lost in translation...
I really wish the media would stop confusing very limited statistical fishing expeditions designed to bolster a political point like this with actual science-they won't, but it would be nice.
I wish I had known this when I was a teen. . . I feel so stupid going into the world with an IQ of only 143 - I'm now amazed that I was able to get through Jr High and High School without taking the short bus every day.
Who'da thunk it?
Roll me up another reefer, mates!
Vitamin T -- it's good fer me!
Sam
Better be careful, Sam. If evidence can be produced to show that you call yourself a "citizen of the United States", (a.k.a. a 14th Amendment citizen), in order to get benefits/privileges, your parent (parens patriae) may not allow you to smoke marijuana.
Bein' "allowed" to blow a reefer would spoil half the high of it. Sam