Jodi Gilman, PhD, is the director of neuroscience at the Center for Addiction Medicine. Her research examines how marijuana affects the teen brain. Her team’s …

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  1. No the so called "cannabis" plant people talked about is 99% of the time made of the Indica strain, which can decrease motivation, but not for everyone. I myself went a short bit without and my grades started dropping and then I got more and my grades improved. The words CANNABIS refers to all the types of plants, which consists 3 Main strains INDICA(mentioned above), SATIVA, and HYBRIDS(Indica Dominate, Sativa Dominate, 50/50). The Sativa plant is known to actually increase motivation, as it does not give you the same high as a indica strain would. Hybrids are just the 2 strains in different combinations.

  2. It may format some of your memories so it can fill that spaces with new memories…WTF I wanna clinging into old depressed memories anyway? 😂 long live green leaves 🌿🌬

  3. Everytime I smoke weed I panic amd make a frantic self help list of ways to better myself and things I have to stop doing. It's like I can see everything for what it truly is and im vulnerable in the moment. Then i work on it for a while untile the next time I smoke weed, maybe a month or two later. This happen to anyone?

  4. I think the stigmatization of using weed as an alternative is more damaging than any of the effects weed could have. I could go on and on about how smoking weed is the best way for me personally to treat my ptsd (it is tho), or how it helped me deal with nausea, triggers, and my appetite when I first started recovering from my EDs (it did that tho). But I think the number one thing to remember when talking about young people using it as an alternative medicine is that you can’t overdose on weed. If weed wasn’t as stigmatized as it is, imagine the amount of young people who’d find that it helps with their illnesses more than whatever pill they were using before, or how many teens would avoid opioid addiction, overdosing on their pills, worsening their problems from the wrong prescription/dose, etcetera etcetera. I think we should always be looking for more ways for people, especially for young people to treat their mental illnesses. With the amount of teen suicides and school shootings, we need to be looking for more options. I’d rather see a teen stoned than a teen dead.

  5. im doing a bit research to decide whether i should start smoking or not . But as she says you get memory loss , well im 23 and my memory is bad already so i will give it a miss lol

  6. I mean… I been smoking weed since I was 14 and now I have a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. So to you people who think Mary Jane is trap… YOU’VE BEEN HUMBLED

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