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Marijuana wreaks havoc on brain’s memory cells
New Scientist – New Scientist (subscription) – Nov 20, 2006
Now researchers think they know why. The active ingredient in the drug, tetrahydrocannabinoid (THC), disrupts the way nerves fire in the brain’s memory centre, a new study shows. David Robbe at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, and colleagues gave rats an injected dose of THC, proportional to the amount inhaled by a person smoking an average-sized marijuana joint. The team monitored the drug’s effect using wire probes placed in a memory centre in the animals’ brains