The brain continues to develop until ages 24-25, and psychoactive substances can interfere with this development, particularly impacting the prefrontal cortex.

“We know from studies with cannabis that, you know, that can slow brain development and people can have lower IQs if they start at a younger age versus people that never smoked and developed their brain fully. So we have no idea what the impact is ofratum developing brain. A lot of people will hate me for saying this, but my feeling is, you know, the drinking age should be 24, 25, just like when your insurance rates go down for your car, it's 25. It's because you have a prefrontal cortex, right? And I think when you hijack that system with any substance that can be psychoactive, you run into problems.”