Environmental vs. genetic causation

Environmental Vs. Genetic Causation enters the Adult Cognitive Disease corpus through the work of Krishna Moorthi (submission 75), and is indexed here as one of the concepts that submission puts to work.

The argument it belongs to

Krishna Moorthi's submission is summarised in this corpus as:

The increased prevalence of Alzheimer's disease is directly caused by the persistent and long-term increased consumption of marijuana (cannabis/THC) worldwide over the last four decades. Environmental factors, particularly marijuana use, are the primary driver rather than genetics, with statistical correlations between cannabis legalization, usage rates, and AD incidence supporting the hypothesis.

Where it sits

The submission scores against the framework's convergence nodes as: neuroimmune interface 1.

Its declared subject matter: marijuana, cannabis, THC, environmental-factors, substance-abuse, epidemiology, prevention, neurotoxicity.

Named by the same submission

3 other concepts enter the corpus through the same paper, so they cover adjacent ground: Cannabis as primary environmental AD cause · Epidemiological correlation argument · Substance abuse and neurodegeneration.


Assembled from the corpus rather than written: the summary is quoted from the submission that named it; the node scores are read from its dossier. It has not yet been expanded into an article.

Last reviewed 15 August 2026.

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Compiled from the knowledge base and the research corpus under the Organic Network Synthesis methodology · the research corpus of Adult Cognitive Disease · the seven monographs are here. 2026.

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