Timmen Cermak, "Marijuana on My Mind: The Science and Mystique of Cannabis" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Is Cannabus More Risky in Adolescence?
If you starts using cannabas at age 13, by age 15, about 17 % of people will already be addicted to it. There's plenty of evidence that it is more adictive more quickly in adolescence. At age 11 or so, when we goin puberty, there is a massive a growth of connections among the nerve cells in our brain. And very ly, since the brain is still developing and in a very critical stage of development, if you start throwing a lot of hi, high energy thc into this indogenous canabnoid system, you begin a inter ring with the naturalgrowth and pruning in all those connections.
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