Monday Morning Mentor: Why You Shouldn't Smoke Weed

Stop Smoking Weed: The Cognitive Cost No One Wants to Talk About | Monday Morning Mentor In this Monday Morning Mentor follow-up on getting smarter, Jason argues that peak cognitive health matters more than ever amid the AI information onslaught and pleads with listeners to stop smoking weed, criticizing how frequently marijuana use is portrayed as normal or funny in shows and films like Your Friends & Neighbors, This Is Where I Leave You, Sam and Kate, and Love, Sarah. He says legalization doesn’t make cannabis harmless, takes issue with prominent pro-weed voices, and cites 2025 research summaries describing links between heavy or early cannabis use and reduced working-memory brain activation, poorer working-memory performance, slowed neurocognitive development, and chronic impairments in attention, executive function, memory, and learning, plus potential increases in anxiety and depression for youth. He adds that parents who use weed signal approval to their kids, and he frames the message as a non-moral argument about staying mentally sharp and harder to control. 00:00 Welcome and Context 01:00 Stop Smoking Weed 01:35 Weed Everywhere on TV 03:54 More Movie Examples 07:05 Legal Doesnt Mean Good 09:53 What the Studies Say 12:24 Why This Matters Long Term 18:39 Parents and Social Norms 19:35 Culture Pushback and Control 22:48 Final Advice and Sign Off

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