Feature Neuroscience

Legalization trend forces review of marijuana’s dangers

Pot may be far less risky than highly addictive drugs, but it's not harmless

HIGH TIMES  Marijuana legalization advocates tout pot’s medicinal benefits and low addictiveness, while critics point to its neurological dangers. Research shows that the reality is somewhere in the middle.  

Tang Yau Hoong

By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

Some people think marijuana is nature’s gift to humankind: a nonaddictive drug, safe at any dose, that opens the mind, lifts the spirit and transports the user to a more profound reality.