According to a new Swedish study, smoking marijuana can be more dangerous to young people than was previously thought.
“New research indicates that even very modest use can cause a lot of damage,” said Nils Stenstrom of the Swedish National Institute of Public Health in a report by The Local.
In recent years the usage of marijuana among Swedish youths has been on the decline, but the new study suggests the trend may be over.
“Unfortunately, there are signs in the most recent studies that this positive trend has been broken. An increased use of cannabis has been reported among both students in grade nine as well as by students in their second year of high school,” stated Stenstrom.
In 2008, The Institute of Public Health carried out extensive research into marijuana use with the results contained in the new report which suggests that the drug is far from harmless. The report, ‘Damages caused by hash and Marijuana’, shows that schizophrenia and psychosis can both be brought on by marijuana.
“Cannabis can bring about the onset of latent psychiatric illnesses and the drug can cause serious psychiatric illnesses on its own,” according to Stenstrom who also said suggestions that marijuana was a harmless drug were “misleading”.
As with any drug, the effects on young brains can be particularly damaging, with a number of studies revealing that even occasional use amongst teenagers can prove problematic. “The young brain which is under development is especially vulnerable. It shows that cannabis can cause damage which can, among other things, reduce memory capacity and the ability to learn,” Stenstrom claimed.
Sweedish are indeed the most advanced country for me regarding drugs. But we knew this information for a long time, proving it isn’t that usefull.. We must focus studies on alcohol or tobbaco which are still legal in almost all countries despite their dangerousity that is way more improtant than for Cannabis.
I’m not sure about this study but there are many studies like this and most of them are pure propaganda.
Marijauna is not as harmless as people think but not as evil as goverments and media wants to make us believe.
naa canabis will never cause any voilence like alcohol n other drungs do so canabis will never creates any voilence but it will make problem in our lungs like tobacco soo canabis must be legal like tobacco and alcohol,…………………..
“Serious psychiatric illnesses”…or is it simply the paranoia stage when smoking marijuana if uncomfortable…. yea it slows down functions of brain cells but it doesn’t kill like cigarettes… I really don’t even get why this was written…
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@Jay – if you had some wisdom, you would know that drugs make important income to Taliban.
Ha ! The 1930s film “Reefer Madness” must have just been translated into Swedish.
Frankly, it sounds as if a Swedish university education causes lasting brain damage and psychological abberations.
Give up this “drug war” nonsense. It does ten times more damage, on many levels, than what it proposes to fight. Leave such puritanical idiocy where it belongs, with Taliban fanatics.
wow that is really big news LMAO , jee , i wonder if the study involved to smoke big quantities of the substance…. what a waste of time in research, anyone with more than a brain cell knew that already.
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ALL SUBSTANCES HAVE SOME EFFECT IN OUR BODY AND BRAIN FUNCTION. THE PROBLEM ARISES WITH THE DOUBLE MORALITY OF LEGALIZING WAY WORSE DRUGS LIKE ALCOHOL…
Thank you Norwegian to share your opinion.
LOL!!
Bogus research!!
There are many things wrong with the methodology of this report. It’s just an updated version of a previous report, neither of which presented original results. It’s just an interpretation by a psychiatrist of other publications. Perhaps slightly more rigorous than SIR EURO’s ramblings, but not much more.
“Can cause harm”??? How often? How many? For how long time?
Everybody knows alcohol is far more dangerous to both body and brain and causes violence and murder which does not happen with cannabis.
Seriously, one should not pay attention to Swedish “research” on this subject. Sweden is one of the most repressive countries in Europe when it comes to drugs- most of the heroin users have hepatitis as a result, beause they do not get clean syringes. Furthermore, even mentioning legalization in Sweden could cost you your job, the debate is similar to how it was in the 1980s. Sweden also has about the same amount of drug users as more liberal Norway, and double the overdoses of the Netherlands. Swedish drug policy is an embarassement, and Swedish researchers still produce a lot of false and hysterical bunk “science” claiming that cannabis is dangerous.
In the Netherlands, where pot is legal, less people and especially young people use cannabis than in the countries surrounding them.
Also, the people who do get a (usually temporary) psychological problem from cannabis use have a lower threshold to ask for help when it’s legal. In Sweden the problems get worse because of secrecy, so they become bigger.
In addition to that, research shows that cannabis does not create schizophrenia or psychosis, it merely can provoke it in the people already predisposed to serious illness. Furthermore there is no correlation between increase in cannabis use in society and the increase of psychosis, so this is bunk.
For most people, cannabis is way safer than alcohol. Don’t listen to brainwashed Swedes!