Health And Physical Exercise 261 with Lorenzi at Indiana University of Pennsylvania *. * The material on this site is created by StudyBlue users. StudyBlue is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by the academic institution or instructor.
Medical Marijuana and Alzheimer's. Several research studies have been performed to gauge the effectiveness of cannabis to treat Alzheimer's patients. Results have been mixed, but seem to lean toward proving that there is a beneficial impact on Alzheimer's from marijuana use.
Smoking is a cause of stroke which can cause short-term memory loss and can trigger dementia. For illicit drugs of abuse, the picture is less clear but the majority of studies do tend to conclude that long-term drug use affects memory. More than 200 studies have looked at cannabis, a similar number studied cocaine, and over a hundred looked at MDMA (ecstasy).