Flutterby™! : Stoned teens grow up fine

American Psychological Association press release: Teen marijuana use not linked to later depression, lung cancer, other health problems, study finds.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Rutgers University tracked 408 males from adolescence into their mid-30s for the study, which was published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

"What we found was a little surprising," said lead researcher Jordan Bechtold, PhD, a psychology research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "There were no differences in any of the mental or physical health outcomes that we measured regardless of the amount or frequency of marijuana used during adolescence."

Article at http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/adb-adb0000103.pdf