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If you are still smoking weed, perhaps this new study might help you take action and quit. This new Australian study has concluded: long-term, heavy cannabis use causes brain damage that is equivalent to mild-traumatic brain injury or premature ageing.

The research is published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

The study also found that all users are at risk, not just those susceptible to mental illness, and the more you smoke, the more your brain actually shrinks.

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If you’re looking for a few good reasons to quit smoking marijuana, perhaps you should consider the long-term effects associated with your addiction.

Activists and advocates of marijuana legalization regularly insist that smoking pot has no adverse long-term effects at all, but recent research seems to disprove this theory.  According to recent studies, regular marijuana usage over a long period can be just as damaging to the body as regular tobacco use, and may in fact cause several additional problems in life not seen in people that use tobacco alone.

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Cigarettes are well known for destroying your lungs, but sometimes marijuana is overlooked when it is responsible for doing some of the exact same things.

I believe the main reason weed is especially harmful to the lungs is because users often inhale unfiltered smoke deeply and hold it in their lungs for long periods of time in an attempt to get high, often as long as possible.

Cigarette smokers don’t generally do this. Therefore, compared to cigs, the weed smoke is in contact with lung tissues for longer periods of time, which irritates the lungs and damages the way they actually function.

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Many marijuana users say they can “take it or leave it” when it comes to getting high, and sometimes they use this rationale to assert that their marijuana habit is not an addiction.

So what exactly is this addiction of marijuana, and is it real or not?

While it may indeed be true that some people will never form a dependence on weed, the same can be said for those who use alcohol occasionally, and we all know that alcohol can cause addiction in those especially prone to its effects.

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