
By BY PAM BELLUCK from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2RVb038


Children exposed to pot in the womb were more likely to experience internalizing disorders such as depression and anxiety, as well as externalizing disorders such as lashing out at others or ADHD, researchers found.
New research suggests that people taking the drug appear to have significantly slower declines in thinking and memory as they age.
The blood marker is called "red cell distribution width" (RDW) -- basically, the greater the variance in the size of red blood cells, the poorer a patient's prognosis, the study authors explained.