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​Not only does smoking marijuana not “burn you out,” but it’s downright good for your brain. Yet more scientific evidence — this time, that it actually appears to improve cognitive functioning among middle-aged men — is now available, thanks to a new medical study.

LA Weekly. The men were tested to measure their level of brain functioning. Researchers looked at a large sample of 8,992 men who “used drugs,” mostly cannabis, at age 42 and then again at age 50, reports Dennis Romero at. The men were tested to measure their level of brain functioning.

Surprise, surprise — the Brits who had used illegal drugs did just as well — or slightly better! — than the chaps who had never “used drugs” at all.

When current and past drug users were lumped together as one group, their scores tended to be better than those of non-users. That advantage was small, researchers said, and might be due to the fact that people who have tried drugs tend to be better educated than those who haven’t.

American Journal of Epidemiology. “A positive association was observed between ever (past or current) illicit drug use and cognitive functioning,” the study’s authors concluded in the





Marijuana was by far the most commonly used substance among participants of the study — performed by Alex Dregan of King’s College London, reports Amy Norton at Reuters