Researchers noted that the IQ of the marijuana-using group was
significantly lower than that of the non-using group
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- 27: Morgan Freeman
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for AFI
"Never give up the ganja."
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2003/apr/21/artsfeatures>
- 26: David Letterman
AP Photo/CBS, John Paul Filo
“I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really
breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.”
<http://www.cannabisculture.com/node/9795>
- 25: Jennifer Aniston
Arthur Mola/Invision/AP
“I enjoy it once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that.
Everything in moderation. I wouldn't call myself a pot-head.”
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-71729/I-enjoy-cannabis-says-Jen.html#ixzz24Cka4lW5>
- 24: Michael Phelps
Al Bello/Getty Images
“[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the
notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of
judgment.”
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nick-graham/michael-phelps-bong-pictu_b_162842.html>
- 23: Tom Brokaw
Kris Connor/Getty Images
“…what I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other
people and walked away…”
<http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/brokaw-on-politics-pot_b17951>
- 22: Ted Turner
Michael Loccisano/Getty Images
"CNN anchor Gwen Scott claimed it is common knowledge that Turner sits
in his office and smokes marijuana."
<http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2606.html>
- 21: Brad Pitt
Todd Williamson/Invision for Fox Searchlight/AP Images
“I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much
[marijuana].”
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2091647/Brad-Pitt-quit-smoking-marijuana-turned-doughnut.html#ixzz24BzxWK00>
- 20: Lady Gaga
D Dipasupil/Getty Images for The Daily Front Row
"I smoke a lot of pot when I write music."
<http://content.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/post/2011/02/lady-gaga-i-smoke-a-lot-of-pot-when-i-write-music-/1#.T143xczXEfI>
- 19: Michael Bloomberg
Andy Kropa/Invision/AP
"You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.''
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/10/nyregion/bloomberg-says-he-regrets-marijuana-remarks.html>
- 18: George Clooney
AP Photo/David Azia
“The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no
stranger there.”
<http://www.theweedblog.com/ten-celebrity-potheads-that-might-surprise-you/>
- 17: Rush Limbaugh
AP Photo/Chris Carlson, file
"I wouldn’t have been able to make it through hundreds of shows if it
weren’t for the benefits of medical marijuana"
<http://www.chronicle.su/news/rush-limbaugh-endorses-marijuana/>
- 16: LeBron James
AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File
“James also revealed he and his teammates smoked marijuana one night
after getting access to a hotel room in Akron.”
<http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4350557>
- 15: Sanjay Gupta
Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File
"I have tried it."
<http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/index.html?hpt=hp_c4>
- 14: Rand Paul
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
"According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current
job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they
knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in
their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take
bong hits. They'd been smoking pot."
<http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2010/08/gq-exclusive-rand-pauls-crazy-college-days-hint-theres-a-secret-society-involved.html>
- 13: Andrew Cuomo
Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images
"I did experiment with marijuana when I was a youth."
<http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/attorney-general-andrew-cuomo-smoked-pot-younger-years-illegal-drugs-article-1.178948>
- 12: George W. Bush
AP Photo/LM Otero
"I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I
don't want some little kid doing what I tried."
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/politics/20talk.html>
- 11: Bill Gates
AP Photo / Jonathan Brady
“As for drugs – well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana
was the pharmaceutical of choice…”
<http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Microsofts-Reinvented-Industry-Himself/dp/0671880748>
- 10: Bill Maher
AP Photo/HBO, Janet Van Ham
"Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried
marijuana... About 50,000 times."
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FLKkxPu2hfA#%21>
- 9: George Soros
ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
"He said he had tried marijuana, enjoyed it, 'but it did not become a
habit and I have not tasted it in many years.'" <http://www.reuters.com/>
- 8: John Kerry
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
"Yes." [In response to the question: "Which of you are ready to admit to
having used marijuana in the past?"]
<http://www.ontheissues.org/2004/John_Kerry_Drugs.htm>
- 7: Jay Z
Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File
"I smoked some weed, and that’s how I finished ‘Izzo.’"
<http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2009/09/feature-time-to-build/>
- 6: Jon Stewart
Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File
“Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high?”
<http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-5-2008/seth-rogen>
- 5: Stephen Colbert
AP Photo/Comedy Central, Scott Gries
"First, [in high school], I smoked a lot of pot...and that’s how I got
to know the people ‘half in’ the society of my high school and we waved at
each other over the bong. Then I got to know people by making jokes.”
<http://blog.sfgate.com/tgoodman/2006/01/>
- 4: Clarence Thomas
AP Photo/Tribune Review, Sidney Davis
"The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's
Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college."
<http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/11/us/thomas-smoked-marijuana-but-retains-bush-support.html>
- 3: Bill Clinton
STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images
"I experimented with marijuana a time or two."
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpBzQI_7ez8>
- 2: Oprah Winfrey
Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File
"To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last
time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh … 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's
hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear
it's gotten better.'"
<http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/oprah-admits-smoked-marijuana-1982-hear-better-article-1.1428915>
- 1: Barack Obama
Alex Wong/Getty Images
"When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpBzQI_7ez8>
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> Back in my college days, when I regularly partook in consuming cannabis we
> didn't call it getting stoned, or getting high, we would call it getting
> stupid. New findings, reported Monday in the journal PNAS reveal that the
> term we used was closer to the truth than *we thought.*
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> Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking
> humans didn't want to believe it could happen to them: Compared with a
> person who never smoked marijuana, someone who uses marijuana regularly
> has, on average, less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex, a region
> that is a key node in the brain's reward, motivation, decision-making and
> addictive behaviors network.
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> More ambiguously, in regular pot smokers, that region is better connected
> than it is in non-users: the flow of signal traffic is speedier to other
> parts of that motivation and decision-making network, including across the
> superhighway of "white matter" that connects the brain's hemispheres.
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> The researchers who conducted the study speculate that the orbital frontal
> cortex's greater level of "connectedness"--which is especially pronounced
> in people who started smoking pot early in life--may be the brain's way of
> compensating for the region's under-performing gray matter. Whether these
> "complex neuroadaptive processes" reverse themselves when marijuana use
> stops is an important unanswered question, they added.
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> The question is now what came first the chicken or the egg? Because the
> study examined people who were already regular pot smokers, there is no way
> to discern whether or not the pot caused the smaller frontal lobe or the
> smaller frontal lobe caused the pot smoking.
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> This study, conducted by researchers from the University of Texas' Center
> for Brain Health and the Albuquerque-based Mind Research Network, did not
> follow subjects over time, so it is at a disadvantage in showing cause and
> effect. Instead, it compared 48 "chronic" marijuana users (at least four
> times a week over the past six months) with 62 non-using control subjects
> who were matched for age and gender with the using group. Subjects were an
> average age of 28 to 30 years old.
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> Researchers noted that the IQ of the marijuana-using group was
> significantly lower than that of the non-using group--not a finding of the
> study, but an incidental factor that might be indirectly linked to
> marijuana use.
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> This does not change anyone who is using pot for real medical reasons, but
> perhaps those states who are making the drug legal should make sure to
> alert voters the possible side effects of regular usage.
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