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: has never been clinically proven as factual or real. No Clinical Causal Link
Problematically, the difficulties inherent in proving a casual link between marijuana usage and such a wide collection of behavioral changes prohibits a clinically demonstrable relationship, and some marijuana users, even heavy smokers, do not seem to display the characteristic traits of the amotivational syndrome. Governmental propoganda? A fact not last to marijuana advocates who argue of governmental propaganda and the propagation of myth, something that government have in the past been guilty of, and some would argue remain guilty of to this day. This is unfortunate, as there are enough legitimate risks of marijuana usage to give weight to arguments against its use, without resorting to half truths and myth. 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.