(La Jolla, CA) – Teens using cannabis are showing cognitive delays. That’s according to a study from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Researchers published their findings in “Neuropsychopharmacology” on April 20th. The study examined more than eleven-thousand adolescents as part of the largest ever long-term study of brain development in U.S. youth.
Lead author and psychiatry professor Dr. Natasha Wade says given how important adolescence is for brain development, delaying cannabis use until later in life may help guard against the types of cognitive delays they’re seeing.
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