Cannabis Use Produces Persistent Cognitive Impairments

> "The study found that cannabis intoxication leads to small to moderate cognitive impairments in areas including: suppressing inappropriate responses."

Amazing how they know whether someone has successfully suppressed an inappropriate response! And then to isolate past cannabis use as the cause of failure to suppress those responses!

The last time I talked to a teenager (who has never used drugs), the whole conversation was one inappropriate response after another on their part. As an adult, you must stay cool and go with the flow.

Digs at this study aside, teenagers should stay away from all intoxicants including coffee and social media.

Any meta-study is going to be significantly tainted by papers regarding the use and effects of cannabis prior to 2018 in Canada because of the stigma and bias of researchers, funding sources, and politics of the time. Positive findings, or debunking negative perception, was rare. You needed to bolster the status quo - rocking the boat endangered funding.

Beyond the biases, there's not a good academic framework for drug use, intoxication, addictive behaviors, and so on. Neuroscience is slowly getting there, but good science is damn near impossible when you mix psychology and social behavior.

There's a reason for the replication crisis, and this paper blithely leaves validation of the input to the reader, as if the crisis doesn't exist.

This is oddly similar to some of the 2008 housing crisis debt abstractions - bundling shitty papers together into meta-studies, then bundling the bundles again somehow achieves legitimacy.

There are decades of reefer madness nonsense to weed out of any cannabis science. Until we have a few decades of legal use, academia isn't going to have a lot to say worth listening to.

Related thread discussing the study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019841

> dangerous driving

I am amazed how academia is disconnected from reality.