Cannabis Conundrum

Cannabis Use Linked to Elevated Myocardial Infarction and Stroke Risk Cannabis use may increase the risk of myocardial infarction and stroke independent of tobacco use, according to recent findings in the Journal of the American Heart Association.  Compared with nonusers, daily cannabis consumers had  25% higher odds of myocardial infarction and  42% higher odds of

This recent ASCO guideline documents the evidence in support of the use of cannabis and cannabinoids in adults with cancer. The guideline highlights the lack of evidence for the use of cannabis and cannabinoids as a cancer-directed therapy and recommends discouraging their use in this regard. The limited evidence available supporting the role of cannabis

Intentional, suspected suicidal cannabis exposures reported to US poison centers increased from 2009 to 2021. Increases during and after the pandemic were notable and greatest among children and females. Most involved other substances; due to the cross-sectional nature of the data, we could not identify a causal association between cannabis use and a suicide attempt.

As pot usage surges, sensible regulation is lagging behind Cannabis-related traffic fatalities are a threat to public safety. Governments need to get serious. Marijuana legalization is killing a lot of people. Not slowly — though some studies suggest that it may be doing that, too — but quickly, in car crashes. It’s one more symptom of the

When you have ‘formulations’ not pharmaceuticals being peddled as medicine, then recreational cannabis use is easy to ‘hide’. In fact it was a key strategy of pro-cannabis lobby to get legalisation for recreational use of the highly engineer drug. (Source: SBS Story here)   Also see Cannabis as ‘Medicine?’: Pot Propaganda, Emotive Anecdote, Marketing Manipulation, and the

Many Think Marijuana Causes Little to No Harm, Study Finds “In Colorado, the whole campaign to legalize was that marijuana is not as harmful as alcohol,” Roffman noted. He said it’s possible that, as a result, many people could “come to the conclusion that if attitudes change and laws change maybe there is nothing to

A cross-sectional study of the relationship between frequency of cannabis use and psychiatric symptoms among people seeking mental health and addiction services in Nova Scotia (2019-21) Abstract – Background: Cannabis use may be a modifiable risk factor for mental health problems; however, the role of cannabis use frequency in population seeking mental health and addiction services

Cannabis and Driving in Older Adults Question: What is the association between retail cannabis available to the consumer, driving, and associated blood tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) levels in people over 65 years of age? Findings: In this cohort study, 31 regular users of cannabis aged 65 to 79 years chose on average high potency (18.74% THC) THC-dominant