Medical News Report Raises Awareness of Adverse Effects of Marijuana Use

WELLINGTON, Fla. - Dec. 1, 2014 - PRLog -- A new Mission Critical Health medical video report encourages marijuana users to consider the short-term and long-term effects of marijuana use during pregnancy, adolescence and chronic use as adults.

In the last decade, medical marijuana in America has become legal in 23 states and more states are seeing referendums to legalize recreational use. As policy shifts toward legalization of marijuana, it is reasonable to conclude the use of marijuana will also increase and so will the number of persons with negative health consequences from marijuana.

Researchers have published peer-reviewed studies on the negative health effects of marijuana for more than twenty years. Recent publications within The New England Journal of Medicine and the Addiction Monograph examine the collective research results over the past two decades.

The effects of short-term marijuana use include motor skills coordination impairment, adverse effects to short-term memory, making it difficult to learn and to retain information.

Long-term or heavy exposure to marijuana at all stages of pregnancy is associated with altered brain development and cognitive impairment, problem behaviors, lower cognitive ability, higher rates of attentional and mood disorders in children.

Those who were frequent marijuana users during adolescence were found to have poor educational outcomes, with increased likelihood of dropping out of school, increased risk of anxiety, depression, diminished life satisfaction and achievement.

Marijuana use has also been associated with vascular conditions that increase the risks of myocardial infarction and stroke during marijuana intoxication.

This news report, hosted by American Medical Women’s Association President Dr. Farzanna Haffizulla and produced by Mission Critical Health (MCH), provides healthcare professionals and their patients with important science-based information.

The video news report can be viewed at the following link:

http://youtu.be/kVoXCCQdwwA



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