Does smoking marijuana for over 5 years effect your personality?
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it effects different people in different ways.
some would become fried (joe Walsh, Bob Dylan)
some it would have no effect at all
the rest---somewhere in the middle
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yes, it makes you an ADICTIVE!
NO yes, as the ones who used it told me. and they regret ever using it.
smoking pot kills brain cells.so hence smoking for 5 yrs..what do you think?
YES, I know someone that has been smoking pot for six years and he talks slower, he just seems like he is always high when he isn't. Also it lowers your reflexs and kills brain cells and put small amounts of acid into your bloodstream. Smoking it every now and then shouldn't do as much damage as smoking it all the time; but I don't know about that.
my mom has smoke pot my entire life, and i'm 35, she is totally forgetful, and progressively more and more paranoid about things.. she is defenitely changing. she remembers things WAY different from my brother and I, and sometimes when she tells stories they will change.. like she used to say she had and out of body experience and talked to God, then it would be she was abducted by aliens, then it was she had a vision from God, and all these things have been the same story.. really she was stoned off her ***, and it was probably laced or something. yup you become a lazy slob judging by my ex's
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Yes definantly.
In my personal experience I have noticed mood swings, anger and inability to handle stress as before.
They say it takes at least a year for the brain to recover.
Research clearly demonstrates that marijuana has the potential to cause problems in daily life or make a person's existing problems worse. Depression, anxiety, and personality disturbances have been associated with chronic marijuana use. Because marijuana compromises the ability to learn and remember information, the more a person uses marijuana the more he or she is likely to fall behind in accumulating intellectual, job, or social skills. Moreover, research has shown that marijuana’s adverse impact on memory and learning can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off19,20,25.
Students who smoke marijuana get lower grades and are less likely to graduate from high school, compared with their nonsmoking peers21,22,23,24. A study of 129 college students found that, among those who smoked the drug at least 27 of the 30 days prior to being surveyed, critical skills related to attention, memory, and learning were significantly impaired, even after the students had not taken the drug for at least 24 hours20. These "heavy" marijuana abusers had more trouble sustaining and shifting their attention and in registering, organizing, and using information than did the study participants who had abused marijuana no more than 3 of the previous 30 days. As a result, someone who smokes marijuana every day may be functioning at a reduced intellectual level all of the time.
More recently, the same researchers showed that the ability of a group of long-term heavy marijuana abusers to recall words from a list remained impaired for a week after quitting, but returned to normal within 4 weeks25. Thus, some cognitive abilities may be restored in individuals who quit smoking marijuana, even after long-term heavy use.
Workers who smoke marijuana are more likely than their coworkers to have problems on the job. Several studies associate workers' marijuana smoking with increased absences, tardiness, accidents, workers' compensation claims, and job turnover. A study among postal workers found that employees who tested positive for marijuana on a pre-employment urine drug test had 55 percent more industrial accidents, 85 percent more injuries, and a 75-percent increase in absenteeism compared with those who tested negative for marijuana use26. In another study, heavy marijuana abusers reported that the drug impaired several important measures of life achievement including cognitive abilities, career status, social life, and physical and mental health.'
Some of marijuana's adverse health effects may occur because THC impairs the immune system's ability to fight disease. In laboratory experiments that exposed animal and human cells to THC or other marijuana ingredients, the normal disease-preventing reactions of many of the key types of immune cells were inhibited14. In other studies, mice exposed to THC or related substances were more likely than unexposed mice to develop bacterial infections and tumors.
study of college students has shown that critical skills related to attention, memory, and learning are impaired among people who use marijuana heavily, even after discontinuing its use for at least 24 hours.7 Researchers compared 65 "heavy users," who had smoked marijuana a median of 29 of the past 30 days, and 64 "light users," who had smoked a median of 1 of the past 30 days. After a closely monitored 19- to 24-hour period of abstinence from marijuana and other illicit drugs and alcohol, the undergraduates were given several standard tests measuring aspects of attention, memory, and learning. Compared to the light users, heavy marijuana users made more errors and had more difficulty sustaining attention, shifting attention to meet the demands of changes in the environment, and in registering, processing, and using information. These findings suggest that the greater impairment among heavy users is likely due to an alteration of brain activity produced by marijuana.
Longitudinal research on marijuana use among young people below college age indicates those who used marijuana have lower achievement than the non-users, more acceptance of deviant behavior, more delinquent behavior and aggression, greater rebelliousness, poorer relationships with parents, and more associations with drug-using friends.
Also see:
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/full/59/9/1295
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/551271/posts
ya Makes you eat too many Twinkies.
Yal i think it has effected mine. Everyone is different
Just read some of these answers listed- smoking marijuana any time changes the brain..
very true. it affects in and out. wow!! where do you people get your facts from? Have you ever even tried weed? Anyway, as for myself, i smoke maybe 5 times a month when i get with my friends, and im telling you, this really helps me get through my depression and problems.. trust me, just smoke like 4 times a month, thats all you need, and youll be a better person. It made me a better person. i dont know what these losers are saying, dont listen to them!! Ive been depressed for two years straight and ive thought about suicide, but ever since i started smoking, i felt so alive and happy:).it also brings people together and actually, this works. The next morning after you were high, go and study, and youll understand more of the things youre studying..it also calms you down, and for the rest of the people! if youve never tried it, dont comment, please!!
any drug u take for any amount of time is gonna effect ur personality. that's one why to tell if a person is actually on drugs: changes in thier personality.
THC affects the nerve cells in the part of the brain where memories are formed. This makes it hard for the user to recall recent events (such as what happened a few minutes ago). It is hard to learn while high - a working short-term memory is required for learning and performing tasks that call for more than one or two steps.
Among a group of long-time heavy marijuana users in Costa Rica, researchers found that the people had great trouble when asked to recall a short list of words (a standard test of memory). People in that study group also found it very hard to focus their attention on the tests given to them.
Smoking marijuana causes some changes in the brain that are like those caused by cocaine, heroin, and alcohol. Some researchers believe that these changes may put a person more at risk of becoming addicted to other drugs, such as cocaine or heroin.
It may be that marijuana kills brain cells. In laboratory research, scientists found that high doses of THC given to young rats caused a loss of brain cells such as that seen with aging. At 11 or 12 months of age (about half their normal life span), the rats' brains looked like those of animals in old age. It is not known whether a similar effect occurs in humans.
Researchers are still learning about the many ways that marijuana could affect the brain.
yes it makes you forgetful, slower, impotent, paranoid, and you will regret it once you get older it effects your life years after you quit smoking it.
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