{"id":14650,"date":"2018-05-21T19:32:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=14650"},"modified":"2018-10-04T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T19:23:58","slug":"even-casual-cannabis-use-can-affect-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2018\/05\/even-casual-cannabis-use-can-affect-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Casual Cannabis Use Can Affect Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Submitted by\u00a0<a class=\"username\" title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"http:\/\/preventionhub.org\/en\/users\/livia-edegger\">Livia Edegger<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-inner\">\n<article class=\"node-5218 node node-article node-promoted view-mode-full Research prevention-update clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">As support for decriminalising and legalising marijuana is growing, several new studies highlight the potentially harmful effects of the drug on its user\u2019s brain and heart. The findings are particularly revealing in the field of recreational cannabis use. While studying the brains of a group of twenty occasional cannabis smokers, researchers from Harvard University found that as few as one or two uses a week can change the brain. Smoking marijuana was found to primarily affect the areas involved in decision making, emotions and motivations. Along the same lines, a group of French researchers found that marijuana use ups the risk of developing heart problems (i.e. strokes, heart attacks and circulation problems). More research is needed to better understand the health risks associated with marijuana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Links:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\"><a class=\"ext\" title=\"Cannabis Use Is Quantitatively Associated with Nucleus Accumbens and Amygdala Abnormalities in Young Adult Recreational Users(link is external)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/34\/16\/5529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cannabis Use Is Quantitatively Associated with Nucleus Accumbens and Amygdala Abnormalities in Young Adult Recreational Users<span class=\"ext\"><span class=\"element-invisible\">(link is external)<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>\u2013 The Journal of Neuroscience<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\"><a class=\"ext\" href=\"http:\/\/jaha.ahajournals.org\/content\/3\/2\/e000638.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cannabis Use: Signal of Increasing Risk of Serious Cardiovascular Disorders<span class=\"ext\"><span class=\"element-invisible\">(link is external)<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Journal of the American Heart Association<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\">Source:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/preventionhub.org\/en\/prevention-update\/even-casual-cannabis-use-can-affect-health\">http:\/\/preventionhub.org\/en\/prevention-update\/even-casual-cannabis-use-can-affect-health<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 10pt;color: #0000ff\"><time datetime=\"2014-04-25T10:43:08+01:00\">25th April 2014<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by\u00a0Livia Edegger\u00a0 As support for decriminalising and legalising marijuana is growing, several new studies highlight the potentially harmful effects of the drug on its user\u2019s brain and heart. The findings are particularly revealing in the field of recreational cannabis use. While studying the brains of a group of twenty occasional cannabis smokers, researchers from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,90,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-global-drug-legalisation-efforts","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}