New Study Confirms Alcohol Destroys The Brain - Not Cannabis

The study, conducted by University of Colorado, Boulder and Oregon Health and Science University was published in the journal ‘Addiction’.

It found that higher alcohol rates were responsible for diminished grey matter, the part of the brain that is associated with intelligence – hence, a very important cerebral part.

This is not the first study of it’s kind, in 2004 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a study of the effects of alcoholism on the brain and found that “male and female alcoholics both showed significantly greater brain shrinkage than those not suffering from alcoholism.”

Cannabis use is often attributed to teens dropping out of high school and college, and is often associated with ‘laziness’.

These claims were also debunked by the study, which found – “We found that adolescents who started using cannabis at 17 or older performed equally well as adolescents who did not use cannabis.”