Marijuana is the most consumed illegal substance on the planet. According to data from the industry, hashish, as it is called, is smoked by around 183 million people around the world.
Some may find this fact disheartening, and even more so if one takes into account that the average age of onset is only 15 years.
Consuming this substance so early can have irreversible consequences. A recent study from King's College London, Duke University (United States), and the University of Otago (New Zealand) has concluded that smoking joints in adolescence affects brain development and impairs long-term intellectual abilities.
In both young people and adults, most of the damage induced by cannabis is associated with the brain; however, it is not the only region of our body that suffers...