Can cannabis affect growth in adolescence?

It is essentially genetically conditioned, how great one becomes. There seems to be no concrete evidence that cannabis use can have a negative effect on long-term growth. As a rule, a study from Pakistan is raised in such questions, but I do not think it is very relevant because the test subjects smoked cannabis in connection with tobacco and the studymakers even classified them as dependent.

Not that cannabis use would not involve certain risks. These relate, in particular, to the brain and the psyche and, in the case of smoking, of course also to the respiratory tract. Especially in childhood, where the body—incl. Brains and lungs are not yet fully grown and you are emotionally and mentally publicly or naturally in a rather unstable phase. As long as puberty has not been overcome or brain growth is not complete, should we not use cannabis and other drugs. Apart from the legal risks that are currently being used by cannabis.

From a recent review paper:

• Appropriate evidence indicates that a persistent, frequent use of cannabis in childhood is associated with a low reduction in neurocognitive function.

• The abstinence of cannabis is likely to lead to a certain recovery of cognitive functions in young people.

• The long-term consumption of cannabis, which begins with young people, can lead to cognitive deficits that do not recover so quickly in case of abstinence.

• There are some indications that cannabis use in childhood is associated with differences in the brain structure, but these results must be replicated.

→ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1056499322000529

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