Marijuana use in young people may cause lack of motivation later in life

[Texashiker]

Small study with interesting results. The study group was only 40 people.

Using an MRI, the teenagers who used the most weed showed the greatest changes in brain development.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...-linked-with-brain-abnormalities-study-finds/

Because these brain regions are central for motivation, the findings from Northwestern help support the well-known theory that marijuana use leads to a condition called amotivation.

Also called amotivational syndrome, this psychological condition causes people to become less oriented towards their goals and purposes in life, as well as seem less focused in general.

The more weed a teenager smokes, the less motivated they may be later in life.

I wonder if this helps explain why so many people from Gen Y are still at mom and dads house in their mid to late 20s? Spending their teenage years smoking weed and playing video games may have caused long term damage.

 

[brycejones]

yathtt

 

[cyclohexane]

not surprising. Marijuana today is much more potent (crazy high THC content).
young people have brains that are still developing, so it's no surprise that their will be an effect.

The real long term damage is from taking amphetamines at an early age, that will seriously change your brain chemistry.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I imagine that the rising cost of housing coupled with wage stagnation and unemployment or underemployment in younger people probably has more to do with young adults living at home longer than assuming that all young people are smoking copious amounts of ganja. But yeah, doing too much of any drug, especially when you're young, probably isn't a great idea.

 

[CrackRabbit]

yathtt

The correct response to this thread.

 

[waggy]

I don't buy it. i know a few that smoked and smoked heavy when kids. they have plenty of motivation.

I wouldn't put the lack of motivation on just pot but the cost of education, lack of jobs, etc etc

 

[Jaskalas]

40 people... WTB real study.

 

[nickbits]

I could see that being true but 40 is hardly a study of much significance.

 

[zinfamous]

waiting to see how gay it makes people...

I wonder if this helps explain why so many people from Gen Y are still at mom and dads house in their mid to late 20s? Spending their teenage years smoking weed and playing video games may have caused long term damage.

or, you know, it could be that whole lack of available jobs, especially for 18-25 year olds thing going on for the last 5 years...

 

[TreVader]

sweet ass thread th

 

[Kadarin]

I see it as a sign that more in-depth studies are needed to understand exactly how these things happen and what they do. And when these things are known in detail, adults who choose to use marijuana will be able to do so with a good understanding what effects it will have, and will thus be making informed decisions on how much to use and what particular strains. And parents who have marijuana prescribed for children (for example, http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/health/charlotte-child-medical-marijuana/ ) will understand what effects it will have down the road and be able to make informed decisions based on known tradeoffs.

Sounds all good to me.

 

[Thebobo]

I'm not motivated enough to read the article.

 

[MrPickins]

I wonder if this helps explain why so many people from Gen Y are still at mom and dads house in their mid to late 20s? Spending their teenage years smoking weed and playing video games may have caused long term damage.

Ya, because people never smoked weed in the 60's or 70's...


or 80's or 90's...

 

[1prophet]

waiting to see how gay it makes people...




or, you know, it could be that whole lack of available jobs, especially for 18-25 year olds thing going on for the last 5 years...

This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others.

--Harry J. Anslinger

As for lack of available jobs, tell all those loafers that millions of weed smoking Mexicans are willing to break the law to do jobs they don't want to but are necessary so these self entitled mommas boys are able to have the basic necessities of life so they can zone out in front of their play station/ x-box while texting on their smartphones.

 

[Jhhnn]

The ever shifting rationales for cannabis prohibition are a form of simulated rationality.

Do not base policy on fact finding & deliberation with an open mind.

Just form a conclusion, then find whatever evidence you can to support it, ignore contrary facts entirely. When one bit of evidence is discredited, find another, and another, and another. With diligence, you'll never run out. Latch onto anything that bolsters pre-existing belief.

This study is no different. It assumes brain differences are caused by cannabis, rather than such differences leading to different cannabis usage patterns. Duh! An honest study would begin with lab animals, dosing one randomly selected group with cannabis over time & the other not, then comparing the results. Except that NIDA has been the sole legal source for research marijuana, and they haven't been giving it up until very recently. They've stymied & suppressed honest research for decades.

Cannabis has been blamed for damned near everything wrong with the human race, and there's never been any truth to any of it. This study is no different. If they're right at all, it's on the principle that even a blind squirrel finds a few acorns.

Miscegenation. White slavery. Death. moral turpitude of all varieties. violent insanity. birth defects. cancer. retardation. Brain damage, of which this "lack of motivation" is just another variant.

Well, maybe it is possible to run out of "reasons" if this weak sauce is all they've got.

Nobody of any note is claiming that it's good for teens, at all. OTOH, after 50 years of increasing popularity, if there were something horribly wrong with it, we'd know, just like we know about booze, crack, meth, opiates & some prescription drugs.

So far, all that's been proven is that the worst consequence of pot smoking is getting busted.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Study on 40 kids? I bet they were all filthy milk drinkers too.

 

[norseamd]

more weed = less motivated to do uninterested servant tasks

who knew

 

[norseamd]

Study on 40 kids? I bet they were all filthy milk drinkers too.

hypocrisy

prejudicing against your own kind?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

hypocrisy

prejudicing against your own kind?

I never swallowed.

 

[norseamd]

I never swallowed.

milkdrinker might have been tongue in cheek

http://vimeo.com/43653286

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJNNttOKZFY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans

 

[Oldgamer]

Small study with interesting results. The study group was only 40 people.

Using an MRI, the teenagers who used the most weed showed the greatest changes in brain development.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...-linked-with-brain-abnormalities-study-finds/



The more weed a teenager smokes, the less motivated they may be later in life.

I wonder if this helps explain why so many people from Gen Y are still at mom and dads house in their mid to late 20s? Spending their teenage years smoking weed and playing video games may have caused long term damage.

This is a bunch of bunk.. I know people who are very successful and very motivated and ambitious who smoked weed like chimneys on a regular basis in college daily. They are now very successful business entrepreneurs now.

I think when it comes to ANY drug it all boils down to the person and if they have mental health issues.

 

[hans030390]

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[Skyclad1uhm1]

There's quite a large number of highly succesful and very rich people who did coke at one point or another. So if we take a specific enough focus group and look at this group we can 'clearly conclude' that using cocaine makes you extremely rich and succesful. Right?

Did they bother having a control group start using marijuana to see whether the 'abnormalities' appeared after use? Or did they ignore the possibility that people with a certain deviation from the norm are more likely to use marijuana? Did they follow them for dozens of years to see what they would end up as, and did they look at all the different circumstances someone was in? Did they look at the use of alcohol and other drugs, or did they conveniently ignore that?
What exactly were the 'abnormalities' to begin with? It's very interesting if it's similar to the abnormalities found in the brain of someone mentally ill, unless it turns out that the norm they are using only covers 40% of the population and the other 60% deviate from that.

 

[TurtleCrusher]

Fox News you say? Seems legit !

 

[Texashiker]

This is a bunch of bunk.. I know people who are very successful and very motivated and ambitious who smoked weed like chimneys on a regular basis in college daily.

You are comparing college young adults with high school kids? really?

The brain goes through a lot of development in the teenage years.