Smoking Weed Makes People More Lazy

According to recent research smoking weed is not only affects physical health, it can also make people more lazy and reduces their motivation. Researchers found that cannabis can affect parts of the brain associated with motivation problems.

Previous research shows that smoking pot can make a person become apathetic. While current research indicates that marijuana can destroy dopa-mine, the chemical in the brain that makes people excited.

The amount of dopamine in the brain called the striatum seen lower in cannabis users. This is what makes marijuana users become more lazy, because dopamine associated with the person's motivation.

"Our findings explain why marijuana makes people just sit and not do anything. This could also explain why marijuana users did not seem to have the motivation to do anything," said Dr. Michael Bloomfield from Imperial College London, as reported by the Daily Mail (01/07 ).

Although this research was conducted on the users who experience a strange sensation and feeling paranoid when using marijuana, but the researchers argue that these results also apply to the majority of cannabis users. Even so, they will do more research to confirm these results.

Previous research found that marijuana users have a higher risk of mental illness associated with schizophrenia. It is believed to be related to the chemical dopamine in the brain's cannabis users.