SMOKING MARIJUANA AT EARLY AGE COULD LIKELY CAUSE DISABILITY IN FUTURE

    Swedish researchers have warned that men who smoked marijuana heavily at age 18 are more likely to end up registered as disabled by the time they reach age 60. The researchers analyzed data from a large study that included almost 50,000 Swedish men born between 1949 and 1951 and enlisted compulsory into
the military service in 1969 and 1970. The team was specifically interested in the frequency of marijuana use at age 18, when the men were conscripted. The young men were grouped according to how often they had ever used pot at that point: never, 1‐10 times, 11‐50 times or more than 50 times. 

   The study shows that men who used marijuana more than 50 times before they clock age 18 were 30 percent more likely to go on disability sometime between the ages of 40 and 59. Studies continue to link cannabis with a variety of psychiatric and health problems as well as adverse social consequences. Smoking marijuana at a young age may increase the risk of negative social consequences later on in life, and that prior studies have shown frequent marijuana use increases the risk of using other illicit drugs which can later cause imbalance reasoning if future to a series of negative life events such as, subsequent illicit drug use, illness (e.g., dependence).Studies has continue to link cannabis with a variety of psychiatric and health problems as well as adverse social consequences and despite the research limitations, the findings highlight the need for further studies on marijuana and other illicit drug use in relation to possible health and social consequences, the study authors concluded.

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