As states relax their laws on cannabis, neuroscientist Yasmin Hurd is warning about the drug’s dangers for the developing brain.
In a recent edition of SCIENCE, Yasmin tables the serious and growing concerns about cannabis use, dependency, addiction, as well as short and long-term damage to developing brains. (Source: As cannabis laws relax, neuroscientist warns of its dangers for developing brain | Science)
Whilst Yasmin is not in favour of trying to catch the bolted horse of legalisation, as with most scientists (a little naïve on the shark pool that is addiction for profit industry, and the real time data of the failed and failing legalisation models) believes ‘regulation and taxation’ will end the ‘bad practices’ of high THC weed.
Nowhere has legalisation lessened harm, or criminality or even discrimination. That’s another Smoke Screen that alarms are already sounding over.
- ‘Then There Were Three – Marijuana Markets, That Is!’
- The Disastrous Californian Cannabis Legalization Experiment – More than promises ‘Up in Smoke’!
- Legalize cannabis and a veritable cornucopia will emerge.
- Cannabis as ‘Medicine?’: Pot Propaganda, Emotive Anecdote, Marketing Manipulation, and the Side Stepping of Science
Alarm bells on the published neurobiological harms of cannabis were sounding as far back as 2008 research, let alone volumes of anecdata that tacitly warned the same.
- Deconstructing the neurobiology of cannabis use disorder – PubMed (nih.gov)
- Adolescent brain maturation, the endogenous cannabinoid system and the neurobiology of cannabis-induced schizophrenia – PubMed (nih.gov)
- New vistas on cannabis use disorder – PubMed (nih.gov)
- Cannabis and psychiatric disorders: it is not only addiction – PubMed (nih.gov)