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Jan. 28, 2025 – An example is checking your blind spot when driving down the road,” Gowin said. “When you look back in front of you, you need to remember what you saw in the blind spot before you can make a good decision if you want to change lanes or not. “Losing working memory means that retaining that information might require more effort and be more challenging.” “For years, clinicians, family and friends who knew heavy cannabis users understood that their memories were ‘shot’ — there’s even a term for this, ‘stoner,’ as in ‘forgot the grocery list, couldn’t follow a recipe, couldn’t get it together,’” she said.
However, the study could not determine if working memory comes back if a heavy user quits and is a nonuser for an extended period of time, she added.
“Can the adolescent who used cannabis more than 1000 times between the ages of 15 and 20 years of age, but stopped using at 20 years, demonstrate improved working memory 10 years later?” Boyd said via email. “That is my 64-dollar question — where is the hope for the person with a chronic use disorder who wants their memory back?”
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