A group of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Rutgers University have discovered that consistent use of cannabis by teenage boys do not correlate to later physical and mental health complications. The results of the new study, published by the American Psychological Association in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, contradicted prior information on cannabis use, and shocked head researcher Jordan Bechtold of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
“There were no differences in any of the mental or physical health outcomes that we measured regardless of the amount or frequency of marijuana used during adolescence,” Bechtold said in a press release.
Bechtold was looking to dissever a connection between teen cannabis use and a variety of later conditions. However, the research discovered that both physical ailments, as well as mental ailments, were just as likely for noncannabis consumers and frequent smokers. The research, which was designed to see if ethnicity could be factor in later health issues, also found no high risk for young black men, who made up of 54% of the tracked population in contrast to the general population.
The investigative study gathered data on 408 males, following them from their teenage years to their mid 30’s the release stated. It is one of the multiple studies that has monitored cannabis use in people over decades of their lives.
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