To examine the association between co-use of commercial tobacco product (hereafter referred to as tobacco) and cannabis with educational outcomes among high school students. Results: Current co-use of tobacco and cannabis was more than double the use of only tobacco (3.7% vs 1.7%) and similar to only cannabis (3.7%). Almost 18% of students reported absenteeism. Compared
50+ peer-reviewed studies from all 50 States in the US (325 million pop.) and 27 EU countries (511million pop.) published 2021-23 have verified what had been known from in vitro and in vivo studies for decades, that cannabis is genotoxic, carcinogenic and teratogenic. These studies now verify that cannabis is causal in: 33 cancer types
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Question: What is the risk of developing schizophrenia spectrum disorder following an emergency department (ED) visit caused by substance use with and without psychosis? Findings: In this cohort study of 9.8 million people, individuals with an ED visit for substance-induced psychosis or substance use without psychosis were at increased risk of developing schizophrenia spectrum disorder within 3
A study by McLean Hospital’s Mary Kathryn Dahlgren, PhD, Staci Gruber, PhD, and their team from McLean’s Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core and the Marijuana Investigations for Neuroscientific Discovery (MIND) program, has found that recreational cannabis use affects driving ability even when users are not intoxicated by marijuana. Published in the Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal, the study “Recreational Cannabis Use
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“Global researchers are saying that today’s cannabis, is the singular most important link to youth mental health illness epidemic we have in this country.” [USA] Marijuana companies are using the same manipulative tactics used by tobacco companies of the past. In fact, it’s the same exact playbook: advertising the product as medicine, using child-like messaging, and
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Research team discovered that individuals who used cannabis long–term (for several years or more) and heavily (at least weekly, though a majority in their study used more than four times a week) exhibited impairments across several domains of cognition. Long–term cannabis users’ IQs declined by 5.5 points on average from childhood, and there were deficits in learning and processing speed compared to people that did not use cannabis…The study also
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When Kalpit Sharma started smoking cannabis, he thought it was just part of “living his life” as a university student. After all, he had been told that the drug was relatively harmless. That all changed in the summer of 2021, when he started hearing voices in his head. “I would bike around, and the chain of
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“It’s just weed.” Spend enough time at parties or clubs and you will probably hear this phrase used in instances of peer pressure to use marijuana. But what this reassurance does not convey is that cannabis is four times as potent today as it was just three decades ago. The amount of Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (commonly known as THC) in marijuana
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Development of an anxiety disorder following an emergency department visit due to cannabis use: a population-based cohort study Interpretation: ED visits for cannabis use were associated with an increased risk of having an incident healthcare visit for an anxiety disorder, particularly in young males. These findings have important clinical and policy implications given the increasing use
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Cannabis use has increased significantly in recent years, and it has some experts concerned. By Irina Antonova 12/23/2023 The use of cannabis can lead to changes in DNA that can cause genetic mutations and subsequent serious diseases, according to a new study. Cannabis—also known as marijuana—is one of the most commonly used drugs in the
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