Miley Cyrus: Reading Facebook comments is worse for you than smoking weed

Miley Cyrus: Reading Facebook comments is worse for you than smoking weed
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If you found this article via social media, you may have done more damage to your brain than if you had instead used drugs. So says Miley Cyrus, who in an interview with Sunday Night pushed back against the perceived dangers of marijuana.

When asked how she could tout the aphorism "love your brain" and yet smoke pot, Cyrus said she "was brought up in the way that we never thought marijuana was bad."

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.