Smoke before 18? Risky?

Can someone actually find the legitimate study because I tried and had no luck. I glanced over the paper and I’m not really enthralled, so I’d like the legitimate details.

@justgoing, I’ll respond only to say that legitimate studies are attempting to work with legitimate data and perceivable effects. I want to see just how much was put into these findings and whether or not the results are able to be duplicated.

It doesn’t really matter whether the people testing others have experience or not when the measure is an observable quotient. V + IV = Conclusion

admittedly not diving deep into this last link posted, can we clarify a bit and say that “loss of IQ” is a relative measurement (sllliiightly unreliable?) and wouldn’t some of the sociological patterns (who you smoke/hang out with) and life style changes (more couch sitting and less riding ones bike to the beach) would play a large role on the individuals ability to portray a higher IQ?

@chadvice,
From my observations I think this is very true. Coming from the town and I do and going to the school I go to I have known a wide variety of marijuana users who live a wide variety of lifestyles. The ones that let weed change their lifestyle – i.e., they stop eating veggies, sit on their ass all day w/o excersise, and stop reading/studying/doing sudoku/feeding their mind, seem to have a pretty awful decline in health. And because the body gets weaker, they become less able to endure the damage (however small) that marijuana does do to you, and they are effected more. But I’ve also known people who smoke every day of their life, but work hard at their studies, get excersise, and eat well, and they seem to function just as well as anyone else.

That doesn’t negate the facts of this study. Doesn’t verify them either. I think the bottom line on all drug use is that we need a more mature approach to it in our culture. We demonize drugs that don’t do all that much harm and glorify the ones that kill the most. And the drug “education” we provide hardly gives an accurate picture of what drugs do in the real world. I think if we really gave people the facts about drugs from a young age we’d have a lot less people screwing their lives up on drugs, and alot more who know how to use drugs with maturity and moderation.

The fact that they based the study off of iq and since we kno iq tests are fucked up anyways and dont take in to account creativity i wouldnt worry too much

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120827152039.htm

here’s the study.

personally, I don’t believe weed affects IQ. I’ve been smoking practically everyday for like 2 and half years, yet I attend a prestigious university. I’ve also seen many friends/acquaintances use weed constantly and not exhibit cognitive decline.

I think, if anything this can be attributed to weed’s affect on motivation. I’ve noticed that kids who are already unmotivated to excel at school seem to start to care less if they pick up weed habits, but even that is a generalization in itself.

In my opinion the benefits far outweigh the cons.