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: 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. Does It Make You Lazy? And although marijuana cannot be conclusively linked to amotivational syndrome, most marijuana smokers will concede that under the influence of regular intoxication they are not as likely to accomplish worthwhile goals, and are more likely to focus on transient and meaningless pleasures of stimulation. Far less likely to crack the books, and far more likely to play video games. Far less likely to look for a new job and far more likely to watch a movie. Scientists may not be able to prove a casual link, but marijuana smokers know that while high, they just aren’t as motivated to accomplish in life.