Regular Marijuana Use Leads To Verbal Memory Loss [STUDY]

Regular marijuana use at an early age can impair an adult’s memory function later in life, a new study determined, surprising researchers. Study findings of reduced memory skills surprises researchers Long-term marijuana use may be linked to reduced verbal memory skills, but other areas of the brain do not appear affected. “We did not expect to find such a consistent association with verbal memory for chronic exposure to marijuana,” said lead author Dr. Reto Auer of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Auer and his colleagues, who reported their findings in the Feb. 1 online edition of JAMA Internal Medicine, considered…