New research on marijuana's impact on personal health shows that it's not just bank accounts that can shrink due to long-term recreational use. The drug may also decrease brain volume. “Long-term ...

Marijuana has been a hot topic for years, but one often clouded by misperceptions. Many turn to it as a perceived panacea, hoping it will address health issues or enhance their well-being if other ...

The recreational use of marijuana has become more common in recent years. But some research has found that consuming cannabis could have negative effects on the body, especially the brain. A recent ...

A collaborative study sheds light on how cannabis use affects brain development in young people, the main one being atrophy of certain regions of the cerebral cortex. Cannabis use may lead to thinning ...

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 ...

Weed is no longer just for hippies or hip-hop stars — around 22 million people in the U.S. are cannabis users. But there’s still a lot we don’t know about the long-term effects of marijuana on men’s ...

Two of America’s favorite mood-altering drugs, marijuana and alcohol, are being consumed together, called crossfading, more frequently as marijuana becomes less regulated. Thus, there is a good reason ...