European journal of clinical investigation

Biphasic effects of THC in memory and cognition.

European journal of clinical investigation May 2018 Edward J Calabrese, Alberto Rubio-Casillas

A generally undesired effect of cannabis smoking is a reversible disruption of short-term memory induced by delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive component of cannabis. However, this paradigm has been recently challenged by a group of scientists who have shown that THC is also able to improve neurological function in old animals when chronically administered at low...