Title: Marijuana Amotivational Syndrome? Does Marijuana Addiction make you Lazy?
Headings: Marijuana Amotivational Syndrome?
Marijuana Amotivational Syndrome?
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Is there any truth to the stereotype of the lazy, half-witted, burnt out marijuana smoker?
Amotivational Syndrome...The Facts
No Clinical Causal Link
Governmental propoganda?
Some Real Statistics About the Harms of Marijuana
Marijuana and Developmental Delays in Teens
Does It Make You Lazy?
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Content: Some Real Statistics About the Harms of Marijuana
But although amotivational syndrome cannot be proven as a casual result of marijuana usage, there are certain statistics that do illustrate the correlation between marijuana use and lowered academic and professional success and accomplishments. Marijuana users are less likely to finish high school
They get lower grades in high school and in college than do non smokers
They perform lower on tests of intellectual capacity
They self report a decreased ability to excel professionally
Heavy marijuana users self report that their marijuana habit decreases their ability to perform complex work tasks well, to learn new tasks professionally and that their marijuana usage has hampered their upwards professional climb. Marijuana and Developmental Delays in Teens
Marijuana usage is conclusively and casually linked to a reduction in ability to consolidate new memories for about 24 hours after you smoke; which for heavy or daily marijuana smokers means all the time. Essentially, marijuana can decrease your ability to learn. Psychologists argue that when a teen starts smoking marijuana heavily, they lose the ability to consolidate the emotional and social learning necessary for a real transition out of adolescence and into adulthood. Marijuana blunts the emotional response to external stimuli, and as such when under the influence of marijuana, teens do not appropriately experience complex emotional and developmental challenges, and do not learn healthy was to navigate the emotional and psychosocial landscape of adulthood. The earlier teens start smoking, the greater the deficit in learned social behaviors, and the greater the eventual harms. So there is no direct evidence linking marijuana usage to amotivational syndrome, but marijuana does cause decreased academic, professional and general life performance. It does lessen the ability to learn, and when younger teens smoke marijuana heavily, they do not effectively develop emotionally and do not learn effective and appropriate ways to deal with emotional and social challenges in life.