Does marijuana cause short-term memory ?

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Originally Posted by cheerios

can someone explain me this i mean i have read a lot of articles about this but some of them say yes that marijuana cause you short-term memory if you are a Long-term user of marijuana and others say that is not true that the effects pass if you stop smoking marijuana or that is misunderstand , short-term memory effects only appear when you are in the influnce of marijuana and dissapear in some hours. I mean why they dont tell you the true are they telling you this to make you take a side .
please tell me the true if you are 100 % sure of what are you telling , don't take sides.

By the way i have smoke like a year and my live is the same but more relax and kind of more happy (you know what i mean )
(sorry for my english , is not my first language) :o

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My short term memory is fried! Can't remember what I did two days ago. Long terms fine, I can remember shit from when I was a kid. I'd deffinately argue that cannabis plays with your short term memory. But hey, who needs to know that shit?

Peace

Buddy

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Originally Posted by Weeden

Personally, my short-term memory has always stinked. At least now I have an excuse for it...

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yeah im the same, i dont eat enough fish :D :dance:

its tough to say, I can't really remember.......

I find it does affect my ST memory not only while smoking but also to some extent for a day or so after. Since I smoke every day now, (when I have stash :( ) my ST memory is somewhat impaired on a permanent basis. But there are other compensations such as extreme focus, enhanced visual and spatial reasoning and ... 'sfun :) Whenever I stop smoking (rarely now) my memory bounces right back!

Short term memory loss eh. What were we talking about again? ;)

I've smoked for more than 20 years so I guess I qualified as a long term user. My personal feeling is that short term memory is only effected when we are high, burned, or weed is somehow still in our system. It's like weed turns on one part of our brain and shuts down the other.

When I was in high school and through my early 20's I smoked a lot. I was pretty much high from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed. If I wasn't high I was burned out. I also did a lot of acid, tons of shrooms, some coke, etc. I couldn't remember shit and really thought I had fried my brain a bit. I think a lot of smokers are like this. Always in a constant state of being under the influence. Even if we don't feel high it's still there, not allowing the memory to turn back on.

In my mid 20's I decided I needed to get my shit together. I went back to school and stopped smoking so much. Since then I have earned my BS in International Business and a BA in East Asian Studies with a GPA of 3.83. I learned to speak and read (some writing too) Chinese. I now have a professional job making pretty good money. I say this not because I think I'm hot shit or anything( I don't). I say this this because its pretty obvious that if marijuana actually did cause permanent short term memory loss I don't think I could ever have accomplished what I have.

Now, I only get high in the evenings because I really couldn't do my job if I was high. I have no problem remembering anything during the day. When I'm high though, I have to ask my wife about what happened 5 minutes before on the show were watching. So, bottom line, the effects are temporary.

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Originally Posted by mrdevious

hmmmm, just so you know it doesn't "give you short term memory", but it can damage your short term memory lol.

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lol exactly. like "does anti-depressant cause mood?" :)