
Marijuana May Not Lower Your IQ
Rigorous new studies should be able to settle the matter
Godfrey Pearlson is a physician-scientist, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Yale University and director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at Hartford HealthCare's Institute of Living in Hartford Conn. He is also chair of the neuroscience committee of the Research Society on Marijuana. Pearlson has received research grants to study the effects of cannabis on driving impairment in human volunteers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration. His first book, Weed Science: Cannabis Controversies and Challenges, will be published by Elsevier in July 2020.
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