Stephen Lankenau has spent years studying how people use cannabis in everyday life. As director of Drexel University’s ...

This is the last post in a three-part series. Parts 1 and 2 covered marijuana’s brain mechanism and seven short-term effects. Now, we’ll explore marijuana's long-term effects on the brain. Marijuana's ...

It was less than a year ago when the mainstream media was chock-full of headlines like this one: “Brain changes associated with casual marijuana use in young adults, study finds.” The alarmist ...

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania man was charged Thursday after police say he sprayed fluid used to embalm a human brain on marijuana that he then smoked. State police in Carlisle charged ...

In part one of what marijuana really does to your brain, we traced the discovery of the cannabinoid receptor. Finding the receptor is the first step in determining how smoking causes a high. The next ...

On June 29, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will convene a hearing to consider whether marijuana should finally be ...

Largest U.S. study links teen cannabis use to slower cognitive development and reduced gains in memory and attention.

Fourteen years after Colorado became one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, the executive director of an organization focused on educating parents about the drug’s effects on ...

Marijuana use seems to be more popular (or at least more openly talked about) than ever. Regardless of whether you’re on the gummy bandwagon, you might wonder how it really affects your brain after ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A new UC San Diego study found that there could be a connection between marijuana use and slower development of memory, focus and thinking speed in teenagers. Published in ...