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Title: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Rocket50 on August 27, 2012, 05:10:04 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19372456 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19372456)

Sebbbbb stop before it's too late

tl;dr IN NONGREEN GREENTEXT

>New Zealand study follows 1000 people before they even started marijuana
>Follows up repeatedly
>Considering alcohol and other substances, report says weed = drops IQ by 8 points
>drop varies by use
>no reversal
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Seb on August 27, 2012, 05:17:04 PM
That's because most them are dumb af
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Rocket50 on August 27, 2012, 05:22:34 PM
That's because most them are dumb af

They assessed them as children - before any of them had started using cannabis - and then re-interviewed them repeatedly, up to the age of 38.

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For example, researchers found that individuals who started using cannabis in adolescence and then carried on using it for years showed an average eight-point IQ decline.

Stopping or reducing cannabis use failed to fully restore the lost IQ.
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Seb on August 27, 2012, 05:25:35 PM
They assessed them as children - before any of them had started using cannabis - and then re-interviewed them repeatedly, up to the age of 38.

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For example, researchers found that individuals who started using cannabis in adolescence and then carried on using it for years showed an average eight-point IQ decline.

Stopping or reducing cannabis use failed to fully restore the lost IQ.

Welp, I'm still smarter than most people.
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: ·UηİŦ·· on August 27, 2012, 09:06:22 PM
I think it's because the majority stop giving fucks about learning/just learning/life in general when they get high (provided they don't get high and bring harm to themselves which would explain the low IQ) and don't give fucks about anything ever... thus they don't know/remember how to write the average essay on pot itself, or maybe some other essentially simple academic things.

Then again some people might be taking Marijuana at 'the right times' (the wrong times with the wrong conditions/people), and messing up their brains as they develop anyways.

Anyone could react to any substance differently, right? And what about all the environmental conditions in their life? Would being exposed to hormone blockers/growth hormone on a regular basis fuck up the chemistry/affect someone more adversely than the everyday adolescent/person smoking cannabis?

And then some people could be wired in such a way that exposure to the chemicals in said drug would mess with them anyways. Are there Genetic Markers responsible?

Seb is without a doubt

still smarter than most people

and this probably wouldn't include him because I'm pretty sure the Universe speaks to him when he trips balls anyways.
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Cake Faice on August 27, 2012, 09:20:57 PM
lol, needing durgs to enjoy more of life.
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: ursus on August 27, 2012, 09:22:54 PM
oh no that eight points

I can only imagine the losses
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Rocket50 on August 27, 2012, 09:57:57 PM

What I'm getting from you is that dumb people who smoke pot get dumber because they are already predisposed as being stupid. But the thing is, marijuana smokers don't get high ALL the time. And even with the cohort of subjects that use pot very little compared to the heavy users, it still shows an overall decline in IQ. 

You can ignore genetic factors as statistical inaccuracies because the sample size was 1000 people, and environmental issues were taken into account.

Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Deathie on August 28, 2012, 12:45:30 AM
You can ignore genetic factors as statistical inaccuracies because the sample size was 1000 people, and environmental issues were taken into account.
I didn't read the article, but did they have a baseline group? One that underwent the same observational process, but didn't smoke at all?
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Osme on August 28, 2012, 12:59:44 AM
oh no that eight points

I can only imagine the losses

8 points is kind of high as far as the scoring goes.
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Shawn on August 28, 2012, 07:14:26 AM
But the thing is, marijuana smokers don't get high ALL the time.

Try telling some of my friends that Lol Some smoke more then a quarter a day Lol
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Deathie on August 28, 2012, 07:18:44 AM
Try telling some of my friends that Lol Some smoke more then a quarter a day Lol

Jesus fuck. Where do they even get the money for that kind of supply?
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Shawn on August 28, 2012, 07:20:56 AM
Jesus fuck. Where do they even get the money for that kind of supply?

its only $50... Just 3 hours of work Lol
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Deathie on August 28, 2012, 07:49:49 AM
its only $50... Just 3 hours of work Lol

Yeah, fifty bucks daily on weed? That's over a grand a year blown on weed.
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Shawn on August 28, 2012, 07:56:39 AM
Yeah, fifty bucks daily on weed? That's over a grand a year blown on weed.

Never said they spent their money wisely Lol I think its a waste of money but they claim to be "addicted" and i claim thats full of shit because i had no problems quiting drugs and i was doing more then just weed. I was doing drugs that actually had addictive chemicals in them whereas weed doesn't.
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Rocket50 on August 28, 2012, 08:12:52 AM
I didn't read the article, but did they have a baseline group? One that underwent the same observational process, but didn't smoke at all?

>Doesnt read article
>doesnt even read tl;dr

They chose 1000 people at random who've never smoked during pre-teens and then followed up during adulthood
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: ursus on August 28, 2012, 09:14:05 AM
8 points is kind of high as far as the scoring goes.

An IQ of 100 is average.

108 isn't exactly impressive.

For anyone who wants to know if there was a control group, it's a generally accepted fact that IQ scores are supposed to increase slightly with age. At least that's what Wikipedia said when I read about it.
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Rocket50 on August 28, 2012, 02:39:41 PM
An IQ of 100 is average.

108 isn't exactly impressive.

For anyone who wants to know if there was a control group, it's a generally accepted fact that IQ scores are supposed to increase slightly with age. At least that's what Wikipedia said when I read about it.

IQ of 100 to 92 is a pretty big leap. And the control group were the people who never smoked, of which their IQ's raised or stayed the same
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Tiger Guy on August 28, 2012, 02:43:12 PM
FOX NEWS WAS RIGHT THE WHOLE TIME

IM STRAIGHT EDGE TO THE MAX NOW

ROMNEY 2012
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: Shawn on August 28, 2012, 03:03:51 PM
Lol this study was on the news today...
Title: Re: "Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
Post by: ursus on August 28, 2012, 03:16:12 PM
IQ of 100 to 92 is a pretty big leap. And the control group were the people who never smoked, of which their IQ's raised or stayed the same

oh

if you're completely average then

don't fucking smoke weed dumbass