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Long-Term Marijuana Use Associated with Worse Verbal Memory in Middle Age

posted 01/02/2016

publication JAMA Internal Medicine

Marijuana use over time was associated with remembering fewer words from a list but it did not appear to affect other areas of cognitive function in a study of men and women followed up over 25 years, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

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