Author: Ned Dymoke / Source: Big Think
- 88 youngsters from Boston were recruited for the study. 55 of them managed to abstain the full 30 days.
- Memory improved after abstaining, although attention rates stayed the same.
- The researchers hope to conduct a 6-month test.
According to a recently study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, if you stop smoking marijuana, your memory will improve.
Real shocker here from the science community here, folks!88 teenagers and young people from Boston were recruited for the study, and offered 62 of them money to stop smoking marijuana for 30 days. Of those 62, 55 abstained for the full month, while the remaining 7 probably thought they were suuuuper cooool by lying to the good folks at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where the test was held.
The 55 saintly individuals who didn’t smoke were monitored as MJ-Abst, or marijuana abstinent. The 26 who continued to smoke marijuana (and the 7 rascals who defied the medical community with their flagrant disregard to the law) were monitored as MJ-Mon, which sounds like it could be a Jamaican DJ, but in fact stands for ‘Marijuana Monitored’, which sounds like it could be a Canadian talk show, but isn’t.
All subject were given weekly urine tests to see whether they were following the abstinence. Memory and attention tests took place weekly for the whole 30 day trial.
The study itself is most clear in its findings in this paragraph:
There was an effect of abstinence on verbal memory (P = .002) that…
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