President Trump could be heard saying that using marijuana makes people “lose IQ points” in a secretly recorded conversation released on Saturday. “It does cause an IQ problem.”Getty ImagesParnas first broached the topic of cannabis by asking Trump about state-legal marijuana businesses’ lack of access to banking services. “Cannabis, look, you’re talking about marijuana, right?” the president replied. That whole thing is working out.”“I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing,” he added. The president’s claim that using marijuana causes people lose IQ points is contradicted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Source: Forbes January 25, 2020 22:52 UTC