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In the March 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association's Psychiatry article, Dr. Nora Volkow of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) warned:
This is not a problem that is specific to marijuana. Young brains and drugs shouldn't mix. Period."Dr. Volkow explained that young brains are engaged in a protracted period of 'brain programming,' in which everything an adolescent does or is exposed to can affect the final architecture and network connectivity of the brain."
Pam Harrison (March 17, 2016) "Legalized Cannabis and the Brain: NIDA Sounds the Alarm." Medscape Internal Medicine.
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