What Are The Long-Term Effects of Marijuana?
The 3 Main Factors of Marijuana’s Long-Term Effects
The long-term effects that a person who takes marijuana experiences will depend on three things:
1) The physiological and psychological package that the person
brings to the table during their relationship with marijuana.
2) Whether they use or abuse marijuana over time, and
3) How and if they balance their marijuana use or abuse over time.
Marijuana’s Most Negative Long-Term Effect
Is there a "most negative" long-term effect of marijuana? In my opinion, I would definitely say that it is the depolarization of a person's
jing
and all of the consequences that follow from it, including
premature aging.
For extensive details on how to balance and optimize the effects of cannabis using Traditional Chinese Medicine, please refer to
Marijuana Syndromes
How to Balance and Optimize
the Effects of Cannabis
With Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Dr. Nora D. Volkow’s address to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, May 2011. She brings up several good points, including how long-term use of marijuana not only increases the amount of the drug that users need to reach the same high, it also
inhibits the brain’s natural cannabinoids.
Learn more about how cannabis affects the ways we
process emotions.
And
structural brain changes
in long-term cannabis users.
Δ9THC
disrupts cognition
in a way that is consistent with a direct effect on memory...
Did you know that paternal cannabis exposure during adolescence
reprograms offspring reward neurocircuitry
in a sex-dependent manner?
And parents who use alcohol, marijuana, and/or other drugs are much more likely to
raise children who pick up these habits...
There are many reasons not to use cannabis in adolescence...
There’s good news and bad news about
long-term cannabis use and the brain
Here’s some new research on long-term marijuana use and verbal memory
Long-term marijuana use changes the brain’s reward circuitry...
Marijuana ‘hijacks’ the brain’s reward system...
For extensive details on how to balance and optimize the effects of cannabis using Traditional Chinese Medicine, please refer to
Marijuana Syndromes
How to Balance and Optimize
the Effects of Cannabis
With Traditional Chinese Medicine
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