{"id":55941,"date":"2016-10-10T20:08:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lawson_study_find_pot_use_lowers_iq_increases_risk_of_depression_bipolar_an\/"},"modified":"2016-10-10T20:08:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:08:15","slug":"lawson_study_find_pot_use_lowers_iq_increases_risk_of_depression_bipolar_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55941","title":{"rendered":"Lawson study find pot use lowers IQ, increases risk of depression, bipolar and schizophrenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just months after London researchers found the two major chemicals in marijuana serve dueling roles towards mental health &#8212; one good and one bad &#8212; another group of scientists say their work paints a darker finding.<\/p>\n<p>Those who use marijuana when they are young may be at risk of abnormal brain function and lower IQ, they say.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the finding of a team that included Dr. Elizabeth Osuch, a scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute and medical director of the First Episode Mood and Anxiety Program in London<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany youth in our program use marijuana heavily and, despite past research, believe it improves their psychiatric conditions because it makes them feel better momentarily,\u201d\u009d said Osuch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lfpress.com\/2016\/10\/05\/lawson-study-find-pot-use-lowers-iq-increases-risk-of-depression-bipolar-and-schizophrenia\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just months after London researchers found the two major chemicals in marijuana serve dueling roles towards mental health &#8212; one good and one bad &#8212; another group of scientists say their work paints a darker finding. Those who use marijuana<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55941\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,99,168,104,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}