Does smoking marijuana for over 5 years effect your personality?

Answer 1

it effects different people in different ways.

some would become fried (joe Walsh, Bob Dylan)

some it would have no effect at all

the rest---somewhere in the middle

Answer 2

THC affects the nerve cells in the part of the brain where memories are formed. This makes it hard for the user to recall recent events (such as what happened a few minutes ago). It is hard to learn while high - a working short-term memory is required for learning and performing tasks that call for more than one or two steps.

Among a group of long-time heavy marijuana users in Costa Rica, researchers found that the people had great trouble when asked to recall a short list of words (a standard test of memory). People in that study group also found it very hard to focus their attention on the tests given to them.

Smoking marijuana causes some changes in the brain that are like those caused by cocaine, heroin, and alcohol. Some researchers believe that these changes may put a person more at risk of becoming addicted to other drugs, such as cocaine or heroin.

It may be that marijuana kills brain cells. In laboratory research, scientists found that high doses of THC given to young rats caused a loss of brain cells such as that seen with aging. At 11 or 12 months of age (about half their normal life span), the rats' brains looked like those of animals in old age. It is not known whether a similar effect occurs in humans.

Researchers are still learning about the many ways that marijuana could affect the brain.

Answer 3

wow!!!! where do you people get your facts from? Have you ever even tried weed??? Anyway, as for myself, i smoke maybe 5 times a month when i get with my friends, and im telling you, this really helps me get through my depression and problems.... trust me, just smoke like 4 times a month, thats all you need, and youll be a better person. It made me a better person. i dont know what these losers are saying, dont listen to them!! Ive been depressed for two years straight and ive thought about suicide, but ever since i started smoking, i felt so alive and happy:)...it also brings people together and actually, this works. The next morning after you were high, go and study, and youll understand more of the things youre studying......it also calms you down, and for the rest of the people!!!!! if youve never tried it, dont comment, please!!

Answer 4

Mary J. or cigs? I'd take a blunt any day. Cig smokers are so anal and prone to dying a slow coughing lung cancerous death but smoke some kind bud and it is indeed just that. Clinically proven to prevent cancer, never mind those nasty additives the government uses to kill you. Light up some herbal cure and let's all get along. If the world got high for 5 years, crime would go down, we'd all eat alot more and play more video games, clean up the parks and other hippie stuff. Though if the government sold them in packs like cigs, they'd no doubt add additives to be sure and kill you faster and ruin your good mood. Thanks alot uncle Sam. :P

Answer 5

YES, I know someone that has been smoking pot for six years and he talks slower, he just seems like he is always high when he isn't. Also it lowers your reflexs and kills brain cells and put small amounts of acid into your bloodstream. Smoking it every now and then shouldn't do as much damage as smoking it all the time; but I don't know about that.

Answer 6

Just read some of these answers listed- smoking marijuana any time changes the brain....

Answer 7

my mom has smoke pot my entire life, and i'm 35, she is totally forgetful, and progressively more and more paranoid about things.... she is defenitely changing..... she remembers things WAY different from my brother and I, and sometimes when she tells stories they will change.... like she used to say she had and out of body experience and talked to God, then it would be she was abducted by aliens, then it was she had a vision from God, and all these things have been the same story.... really she was stoned off her ***, and it was probably laced or something.

Answer 8

Nope. Snake oil salesmen will take questions like this as an opportunity to make all sorts of crazy claims. Nothing about you or life has changed.

Answer 9

I don't think so i know someone who started after high school and is going to work everyday has a family still the same person. so if you let it take control over you then it will

Answer 10

any drug u take for any amount of time is gonna effect ur personality. that's one why to tell if a person is actually on drugs: changes in thier personality.

Answer 11

yes it makes you forgetful, slower, impotent, paranoid, and you will regret it once you get older it effects your life years after you quit smoking it.