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Data on 35,000+ adults: the more cannabis you’ve used in life, the bigger your hippocampus and the better your brain works after 40! People who had ever used cannabis tended to have larger brain volume in key areas that are full of natural cannabis-like receptors (especially the hippocampus, amygdala, caudate, and putamen – these areas are important for memory, emotions, learning, and movement). The more cannabis someone had used in their lifetime, the larger these brain areas were and the better they performed on tests of learning, processing speed, and short-term memory. https://t.co/lD3hSSj3Cr

I'm celebrating 420 by calling on Congress to pass my bill, the MORE Act, to end the criminalization of cannabis and correct the historical injustices of failed drug policies. For too long, cannabis policy has been a patchwork of inconsistent state laws that have disproportionately impacted communities of color and low-income communities. It is time for federal law to catch up to modern day consensus and repair past damages by passing the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act.

Synthetic cannabinoids don’t just get you high — they trigger severe, long-lasting psychosis! A lot of so called "cannabis" studies don't test or account for synthetic cannabinoids. Synthetic cannabinoid users who developed psychosis often stayed in hospital much longer than regular cannabis users with psychosis (about 43 days vs. 23 days). In one group of patients, around 30% had psychotic episodes lasting more than 5 months. Synthetic cannabinoids and similar new drugs appear to carry higher mental health risks than traditional drugs. https://t.co/OwNDHzOm83

Hall of Fame bodybuilder and 6x Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates dispelling the lazy cannabis user stereotype on Huberman Lab podcast: “I'm very driven and I'm very disciplined. I'm having this discussion with my friend. ‘Oh, it's not good, and it's only for losers.’ I said, you like to watch American football, don't you? They did a survey with the NFL players and NBA players. How many of them use cannabis on a daily basis? In between 70 and 80 percent. So we're talking about the most elite athletes in the world, highest paid athletes. They wouldn't be doing that if it wasn't benefiting them, and they're saying it's benefiting them. But more to the point, how about the owners of these clubs? If they thought this is having a negative effect on that, they would stamp it out right away, but they don't. So there's no rule that applies to everybody 100%. But cannabis has a very negative image because of over 100 years of propaganda. It was a medicine. You could get it on the shelves in America in 1900. It was for many many things. Queen Victoria, the famous longest queen, she used to use cannabis. So it was used as a medicine for a long time until the pharmaceutical industry came along, and then all of a sudden, they're making movies. There was one called Reefer Madness. This is in people's minds. You know? ‘It's a bad thing. It's a drug.’ It's not. It's a plant medicine, and it grows from the ground like that.”