This is a tough one. While marijuana hasn't been *conclusively* linked to memory loss, it's a pretty safe bet given the evidence that it can cause short term memory loss. Unfortunately, the neural pathways that make memory function aren't easy to "repair".

All I can really say is that with practice you will learn to cope with the lack of memory. It will seem like an improvement but will really just be your brain automatically applying the methods you've been teaching yourself. I would begin by playing a lot of those card memory games, or memorizing a series of ten numbers and then trying to remember it again 15 minutes later, and so forth. With time, your brain will regain its former memory and you'll feel like new again.

The problem lies in the fact that weed effects the short term memory. Making it harder for your brain to turn short term memories into long term memories. Unfortunately you will probably never regain the lost memories as they were never fully turned into long term memories to begin with.

The same sort of thing happened to me when I was 16ish. There is a full 9 month gap I cannot remember. I can remember bits and pieces, but for the most part it's a blank slate. The part that really sucks for me is that I apparently slept with some random...would have been nice to remember that one.

I stopped smoking for a number of years when I got caught giving some weed away to a "friend" at school, I later resumed smoking again at about 23 and I don't really have any memory bad memory problems. I mean I forget the odd thing every now and then...but hey, what ya gonna do(apart from give up totally).

I would advise teenagers to at least hold out on smoking pot until they have hit they're early 20's though, because at that stage they're body and brains shoud have developed enough to be able to manage THC slightly better.

Read into brain development; newer studies suggest that by diet/usage you can develope the synaspese and other elements in the equation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_develo pment

Read all inter-related data and more; then mabey look at your life.

-Eat sh**?
-Cr** job
-Boring people?
-Cr** family?

..you get the point.

I thik the effects on ppl are far worse than memory loss. Especially if you have a wife, husband or chn. It's the unsocial behaviour that you have towrds theses ppl. marijuana smokers can relate to their friends but forget everybody else or just sit on the couch wasted and not say anything. In my family we don't even sit around the dinner table and eat dinner. Dinner time is not even a routine. Some nights he'll just go and drink instead, like 2 or 3 nights. meanwhile i have a two yr old son who
doesn't get to see his daddy. marijuana does a whole lot more damage than just memory loss. It's just plain evil.

I have been smoking marijuana for almost 2 years daily. The first year was many, many times daily. It was a constant high. The only thing I have to help remember that entire period is photos that I take and entries that I journal daily into a diary. This year-span I've been smoking anywhere from 2-10 bowls a day. Usually around three though.
The reason why I do not care about my memory loss is because Ive always been this way. No joke. My entire life has been a patchwork of forgotten and half-remembered gaps of time. I did this to protect myself from things that would happen badly in those times
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The methods I used to keep track of what happened before work just as good for marijuana. Keep a journal. Record anything you dont want to forget there. Its very helpful if your a perminately forgetful person like myself. List making is also very good for helping direct and keep your thoughts focused; if you loose focus for a bit just look back at the list.
Ive also improved/am working on my photography skills. A part of my love for photo-taking is the fact that its a frozen memory caught in time. If I have that picture, I can remember the situation/incidents pretty clearly compared to no photo at all.

I dont really have much of an issue with smoking weed, I guess. It and I work well together. Maybe Im just used to being up all the time. Like, even before I started using substances. I dont know how people are expected NOT to turn to substances if they are a young adult trying to make it in a collapsing economy.. Impossible jobs and pay, and no real chance for college unless I forgo eating and drinking for a year.. (if your thinking WELL THEN STOP SPENDING YOUR MONEY ON WEED I say I get mine free so shuddup.)