How Marijuana Makes You Forget -- Nature
Drug affects previously overlooked brain cells that have a crucial role in memory formation.
Researchers have discovered how marijuana disrupts short-term memory.
The drug impairs users’ working memory — the ability to retain and use information over short periods of time. Neuroscientists Giovanni Marsicano of the University of Bordeaux, France, and Xia Zhang of the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research now show that this common side effect occurs because of a previously unknown signalling mechanism between neurons and non-neuronal cells called astrocytes. Their work is published today in Cell1.
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My Comment: In short .... marijuana use has consequences. But will anyone listen .... hmmm .... I doubt it.
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