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Cannabis not dangerous for young people

Expatica

Wednesday 17 Oct 2007

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AMSTERDAM - Smoking cannabis does not affect the brains of young people.
This emerges from research into the effects of cannabis on the brain of
young people carried out by neuro-psychologist Gerry Jager. At the
Utrecht University Medical Centre De Jager examined forty teenagers,
half of whom smoked cannabis regularly while the other half did not.
Jager conducted memory and concentration tests and examined MRI scans.

The test results of the cannabis smoking youths were as good as those of
the other group. "The things happening in the not yet fully developed
brain of cannabis-smoking youths are similar to what happens in the
brain of adults,"Jager said. She would advise young people who are
suffering from a combination of problems not to use cannabis. But she
sees no harm for the large group of young people who occasionally smoke
a joint. "In ten years' time they will be established citizens and won’t
smoke cannabis any more."

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