Effects Of Marijuana On Marijuana

Marijuana is a very controversial topic in today’s society. Everybody from local potheads, to priests, are talking about marijuana. Researchers have studied the psychological effects of marijuana on an adolescents’ (14-17) and adult’s brain, such as their impulsivity, attention, memory and decision making. Hypothesis Ultimately because marijuana is such a controversial topic, researchers have decided to study marijuana and its lasting effects, mostly on adolescents, because “one out of ten teens said they smoke marijuana at least twenty or more times a month” (CBS). When compared to the 2008 survey, marijuana use has risen by 80% in adolescents according to CBS also. Researchers study the use of marijuana because so many adolescents, and even …show more content…
The non-users in this experiment could not have ever smoked marijuana before, while the users had a history of smoking marijuana at least four days and six months. The participants responded to a television, and radio advertisement (Donald M. Dougherty, etc). While conducting the experiment, participants were asked to give a breath and urine samples for alcohol and drug screening. Participants had to complete a Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BSI), along with a 47-item marijuana craving questionnaire, and a strongly agree or disagree questionnaire, so that researchers could asses participants thoughts and feelings about marijuana use. All these methods were used to find the relationship between marijuana users and the psychological effect on the …show more content…
Dougherty, etc). Heavy Marijuana users had impairments with the short term memory area in the brain (hippocampus, and subiculum); “even when the participants had abstained from smoking after six weeks” (Donald M. Dougherty, Etc). “Recall memory was poor in marijuana adults and adolescents, but evidence shows that recall deficits can recover with extended abstinence in moderately heavy using adolescents” (Donald M. Dougherty,