Study: Marijuana doesn't make you dumb!

[preslove]

Did you ever see that movie Super High Me? He goes sober for 30 days and does tests, then he gets really high for 30 days and does tests. He was quite a bit dumber when stoned. His ability to do math was completely gone.

Yeah. You do realize that he was using an abnormally large amount of weed, right? He woke up vaped more weed than many daily pot smokers smoke in a day. And that was just the morning volcano bag. He continued to eat/smoke/vape all day, every day, for 30 days. And, he only did slightly worse on the cognitive tests.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Did you ever see that movie Super High Me? He goes sober for 30 days and does tests, then he gets really high for 30 days and does tests. He was quite a bit dumber when stoned. His ability to do math was completely gone.

That's going to be true when you're intoxicated regardless of what the substance happens to be. You think you're going to do well on cognitive tests when you're black out drunk? Of course not. The problem is that the stereotype of marijuana users is that pot makes them permanently retarded, which is not true. Sure, they're plenty stupid when they're high, but when they're sober, they're no better or worse than they would be if they never used pot.

 

[sigurros81]

To those who knew better, this goes under the category of obvious news.

To those that believe otherwise, nothing will change their minds.

Truth.

I know A LOT of people who smoke recreationally that carry on a healthy lifestyle and career. Just with anything, if you do it a lot, it will mess you up.

It's rather alarming to see so many people are quick to judge something or make a smarmy remark when they have never done it themselves or know anything about it, yet they are already biased just because of what they've seen portrayed in movies or one of them anti-drug commercials.

 

[IGemini]

As a former psych academic and researcher, it ranges from annoying to outright infuriating when reporters rehash research, this one's somewhere in the middle. Mainly because most authors can't even reasonably give enough information to find the full article easily. This one hasn't been published on hard copy (yet), it's sitting in online publication so it can be edited for a future issue. The reporter decided to use the initial sample (2000) instead of the resulting sample (842) for whatever reason.

But this isn't news. The article conclusion more specifically said that "Cessation of cannabis use appears to be associated with an improvement in capacity for recall of information that has just been learned. No other measures of cognitive performance were related to cannabis after controlling for confounds." Recall improvement after quitting is probably the most common finding in this kind of research.

Too many morons will look at this sort of research and foolishly think that scoring lower on something like a word recall test translates to a person being stupid (or the researchers themselves "THEY MUST BE BIASED" garbage etc., if it somehow puts the subjects in a better light). Because that's literally what the test is, they give you a list of words and ask you to recount them up to 30 minutes later, in another list with additional words. The only thing they found (assuming I understand their scale, not having access to the full text and I can't find the CVLT scale anywhere) is that heavy smokers who stopped got 1.5 more words ON AVERAGE than those who didn't quit. That's it.

Stupidity isn't exclusive to marijuana smokers, everyone's an equal-opportunity idiot.

 

[Wyndru]

I wonder what smoking weed for someone in their teens does to brain development though.

 

[BudAshes]

You must smoke marijuana because that's one of the dumbest things I've heard in a long time.

You are one of the dumbest thing I've seen in a long time.

 

[PingSpike]

Does anyone else support Marijuana legalization in principle, but every time a strong supporter starts talking think "Maybe I'm wrong about this"? Seriously, do those guys do fucking anything all day besides get high, talk about getting high, talk about weed or not wash their hair? I think they'd do better advancing their cause if they weren't walking stereotypes.

 

[Squisher]

Does anyone else support Marijuana legalization in principle, but every time a strong supporter starts talking think "Maybe I'm wrong about this"? Seriously, do those guys do fucking anything all day besides get high, talk about getting high, talk about weed or not wash their hair? I think they'd do better advancing their cause if they weren't walking stereotypes.

I haven't seen this. Considering the large pool of legalization advocates there are plenty to choose from to get up on a soapbox. The first two that pop into my mind are Ron Paul and Gary Johnson.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

stupid stoners always looking for an excuse

 

[TheNinja]

That's going to be true when you're intoxicated regardless of what the substance happens to be. You think you're going to do well on cognitive tests when you're black out drunk? Of course not. The problem is that the stereotype of marijuana users is that pot makes them permanently retarded, which is not true. Sure, they're plenty stupid when they're high, but when they're sober, they're no better or worse than they would be if they never used pot.

Yup. Good Post.

 

[TheNinja]

I actually wish weed was legal so I could smoke up once in a while. I end up drinking more alcohol on Friday or Saturday night, which is probably more damaging to my body than a few puffs of weed would be 1-2x a month.

 

[qliveur]

The problem is a lot of stoners are hardly ever not stoned. That makes them perpetually impaired, so stupid becomes the norm.

I was stoned 24/7 for 10 years, and this describes my experience to a tee.

It's like any other intoxicant. It's perfectly fine when used responsibly and in moderation, but people shouldn't be under its influence 24/7 unless they enjoy sleep-walking their way through life.

 

[BAMAVOO]

IF smoking weed doesn't make you dumb and it is just the dumb that smoke week, ATOT logic presents the following....A Stoner is either....

A. - a CHRISTIAN
B. - a Conservative
C. - God Forbid - both A and B

 

[sandorski]

Did you ever see that movie Super High Me? He goes sober for 30 days and does tests, then he gets really high for 30 days and does tests. He was quite a bit dumber when stoned. His ability to do math was completely gone.

Doing Math while a million thoughts are racing through your head?

 

[dank69]

And playing left field tonight, we have:

IF smoking weed doesn't make you dumb and it is just the dumb that smoke week, ATOT logic presents the following....A Stoner is either....

A. - a CHRISTIAN
B. - a Conservative
C. - God Forbid - both A and B

 

[ShawnD1]

Does anyone else support Marijuana legalization in principle, but every time a strong supporter starts talking think "Maybe I'm wrong about this"? Seriously, do those guys do fucking anything all day besides get high, talk about getting high, talk about weed or not wash their hair? I think they'd do better advancing their cause if they weren't walking stereotypes.

This does seem to be a major problem. Most of the weed people I know are walking stereotypes.

The alcohol and hard drug people are a lot more interesting. A remarkably high percentage of the MDMA people I know are working engineers or science majors in university.

 

[preslove]

This does seem to be a major problem. Most of the weed people I know are walking stereotypes.

The alcohol and hard drug people are a lot more interesting. A remarkably high percentage of the MDMA people I know are working engineers or science majors in university.

The least interesting people I've ever met have been macro brew and sugary mixed drink drinkers.

I'm sure more than a few people you don't think smoke weed do, in fact, smoke it.