Jared W. Young
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And it's like, whoa, there, whoa, there.
And it's actually slowing them down.
And that's good for people with bipolar disorder, not necessarily good for healthy participants who are already at that level.
So I'm so glad you brought that up.
This study is definitely not recommending run out and buy a lot.
Actually, in fact, in our analyses, we showed that people that are heavy users and I'm not going to get into detail, but you can have a look at the paper.
But heavy users that use a lot of cannabis actually don't see these benefits that have bipolar disorder.
We're talking about moderate use.
And moderate use varies depending on what people describe.
But when we looked at moderate use in our population, we found that it was the moderate users.
But I also want to give another caveat to this.
This is what we refer to as an associative study.
This is not us giving people cannabis and testing whether they get better.
This is people choosing to use cannabis that are better.
Now, it could be they were just better right from the start.
That's one of the reasons we love the fact that we have this animal model who are
Never choosing to do cannabis or never choosing to do things.
We can actually do experimental designs where we start giving them THC or cannabis formulations to see whether their performance will improve.
And that gets at, is it causative?
Does it improve?