1. Dubious at best
    Neurofreak Neurofreak United States says:
    December 20, 2009 at 5:11 PM

    This PR blurb is amazingly disingenuous. The study was done on adolescent rats, not humans, and did not even involve marijuana, but instead a synthetic marijuana analogue that has both a higher for CB1 receptors than marijuana does, and also happens to be structurally quite different.

    This isn't to say that theres anything wrong with rat studies, or that inferences can't be made from chemical analogues but to say that "y causes x" is an oversimplification that comes pretty close to just being deceitful.

    I go into a little more elaborate detail about this study at my blog at http://www.neurointerests.com/?p=187

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