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After Years of research at Colorado University, about the influence and long-term effects on the brain of alcohol and cannabis consumption. shows that alcohol consumption leads to permanent changes in the white and grey matter in the brain. Conversely, there were no profound changes to brain structure after marijuana consumption.
The researchers Rachel Their and Ken Hutchison, from the psychology department of Colorado University, published their findings in the addiction magazine.
The brain gray matter is a surrounding tissue compound from nerve cells in contrast to the white matter compound from nerves fibers.
Both materials constitute a critical part of the central nervous system. Researchers find that any decrease of white or grey material volume leads to damage to brain function.
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The study finds that alcohol use among adults, spatially long-term consumption, relates to decreasing in gray material volume and white material density.
Conversely to alcohol, researchers did not find any changes in brain gray and white material both in adults and teenagers.
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Research link- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28646566
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Alcohol in all aspect is bad and is not something that should be encouraged whether amongst youth or adults
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I think that’s the point of drinking 😂😂
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Yea, it's a shame marijuana was demonized for so long and for the wrong reasons, all started with the cotton industry, then the alcohol prohibition failed and they needed to keep the mechanism running, then fucking Nixon... ah well. in 5-10 years it will be legal all over the world again. Fuck the fucking fuckers.
Well that nice, someone did here some history homework☺
Conclusion is that alcohol is not good, at least not overdrinking
doses is important. but i didn't see it mentioned in the abstract
The information on this study is limited as it looks at usage over a 30 day period when physiological changes can take years to fully manifest. Long term consistent use of cannabis (and its derivatives) during adolescence can cause many problems ranging from decreased gray matter up to mental instability (problems controlling anger, memory issues, paranoia, depressive like symptoms)
Its too bad that however that you didn't read the full article as if you did you would have surely written about that as they bring it up.
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I did read the research. The test sobjedt were people that use alcohol and cannabis for years, not 30 days.
Cannabis don't change your brain, in any similar way.
I use cannabis regularly, since I was 15, I'm 35 now.
I can tell you for sure, cannabis is good for you☺
I am going to respond to both of your replies by responding to this one.
The participants were deemed to have used cannabis as long as they used cannabis in the past 30 days meaning that this study doesn't look at how much is being used. The manipulated variable is just whether they used alcohol, marijuana, or both, oh and age groups.
Read my sources, you are correct in saying it doesn't change it in similar ways (as long as by similar you mean the same) but it does change it, for the worse. The final results are similar over chronic long term usage.
That is not surprising honestly...
Long term usage can cause many detrimental effects ranging from memory issues to behavioral issues. That is just on the brain, there were also studies looking at the damage caused by specific ways of intake finding that smoking it can lead to esophageal damage and has studies able to find that it can increase effectiveness of certain mutagens (i.e. increase risk of certain cancers in head or neck)
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I am just going to drop my reference here from before which cites multiple studies that have found changes in WM (white matter) and GM (gray matter) and this source was given in the first comment.
I conclude that marijuana usage after development has finished poses low risk in low to moderate usage but with chronic usage it can increase the risk of many things ranging form cognitive debilitation to a more physical change.
Also, the researchers tested the influence of grey and white brain matter, not the influence of their behaver.
Thank you very much for your information