A meta-analysis of literature, published in the journal Addiction, found that cannabis use leads to small to moderate cognitive impairments, in a range of areas including decision making. These dysfunctions may continue beyond the period of intoxication. "Our study enabled us to highlight several areas of cognition impaired by cannabis use, including problems concentrating and difficulties remembering and learning, which may have considerable impact on users' daily lives," according to the study's co-author Dr. Alexandre Dumais, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Université de Montréal. "Cannabis use in youth may consequently lead to reduced educational attainment, and, in adults, to poor work performance and dangerous driving. These consequences may be worse in regular and heavy users."
With young people having the highest rate of cannabis use, we can expect crazy decisions to be made in the future, perhaps even crazier than what we face now from a decadent generation of baby boomers.