Here’s a study that you can brag to your friends about. A study funded by the federal government analyzed brain imaging from over 37,000 participants between the ages of 44 and 81, and found marijuana users outperforming non-users on cognitive tests.
Researchers hypothesized that cannabinoids and endocannabinoids in marijuana preserve “functional segregation and integration” which is important for information transfer across brain networks.
Marijuana users had brain network “characteristics typically associated with younger brains, along with enhanced cognitive abilities, highlighting a potential modulatory role for cannabinoids and endocannabinoids in neurodegenerative processes,” the authors said.
Ultimately, this very large scale study shows a huge correlation between marijuana and a slowing down of the aging process within the brain. That’s a bit of a landmark revelation, and due to the giant sample size in the study, one we can take without much of a grain of salt. The study still needs to be replicated, but the need for confirmation is pretty reduced.
Keep keepin those brain networks fresh!
