Adolescence is a critical period of ongoing brain development because the brain starts to mature/develop with the ability to think, learn, and comprehend things for succession. It's important to have a healthy brain because choices/decisions are made that help or hurt you. Heavy use of Marijuana makes you perform poorer in thinking tasks, complex attention, verbal memory, and planning ability. When practicing abstinence within the first three weeks of stopping the use of Marijuana, the effects continue from the body like your complex attention skills. The brain's ability to take comprehensive tasks is abnormal during the use of Marijuana.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014111156.htm
I think it's important to post these articles and aware the public of the effect that drugs such as marijuana has on the brain. Especially for young adults with their brains still developing, the use of these drugs could be crititcally damaging.
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