Gemma Speck

Now, critical point here is self-reported.

So obviously, you know, obviously there's like there's a level of trust that we have to believe that people know what motivation feels like for them.

But a lot of participants, you know, didn't show decline or didn't show differences in their ability to delay pleasure and their ability to work long term and steadily and consistently for goals.

The other critical thing though is non-dependent users.

It is a different story when somebody is dependent.

This is key.

The more convincing concern is always and has always been around heavier use and cannabis use disorder.

That is where the issue around motivation most likely comes up.

But the thing is, is that not everybody who uses cannabis is going to go on to become dependent.

In fact, it's not unheard of and it's definitely not rare, but it is not as risky and as common as most people who are opposed to any kind of cannabis usage in society, including for medicinal purposes, would make it seem.

One more thing to note here as well, just like we talked about how long-term cannabis use can impact cognitive skills and memory, but that those things can return and can be rebuilt, same goes for motivation.

So basically, it's not over.

It's not like you have...

It's not like you have physically permanently damaged your entire relationship to reward.

Like it can be reversed.

Let's talk about one final impact that requires close examination, which is the impact of weed on relationships, especially when one person is a frequent user and the other is not.

I got a lot of messages about this because it creates a lot of complications, right?

There's a lot of pressure to participate.

There's different mental stages at different moments or at the same moment.

So two people could be in a completely different situation.