Marijuana use may damage brain immune cells vital to adolescent development, study suggests
In a mouse study designed to explore the impact of marijuana’s major psychoactive compound, THC, on teenage brains, researchers say they found changes to the structure of microglia, which are specialized brain immune cells, that may worsen a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia.
Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/10/231025162928.htm
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