Cannabis Conundrum

Excerpt  “Cannabis use poses a global disease burden, albeit substantially less than that posed by other psychoactive substances such as alcohol, tobacco (nicotine), opioids, and stimulants. The Global Burden of Disease project calculated that cannabis use in 2016 was responsible for an estimated 646,000 years of healthy life lost to disability, an age-standardized rate of

Abstract Context: Cannabis use among the general population has increased over time, in part due to decriminalization of use and greater social acceptance of cannabis use. These changes have contributed to increased availability of cannabis products, thus raising the likelihood that a subset of adolescent and young adult athletes will use cannabis. Therefore, it is imperative

DNA methylation is an indicator of the impact of environmental factors on health, and some forms of DNA methylation due to environmental factors are long-lasting, while others are transient. It occurs when a methyl group gets added to the fifth carbon of cytosine in regions with cytosine and guanine (CpG) repeats. Studies have reported that

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Associations between cannabis use disorder (CUD) and affective psychiatric illnesses are understudied. Researchers analyzed registry data from Danish persons ≥16 years old between 1995 and 2021 to examine the associations between CUD diagnosis and subsequent diagnoses of major depressive disorder (unipolar depression) and bipolar disorder, including psychotic and non-psychotic subtypes of each illness. Of the

Cannabis Use Need Not Meet Criteria for Use Disorder to Be Harmful to Adolescents Cannabis use can affect memory, motivation, attention, and mental health. Adolescents are particularly susceptible to its effects due to critical brain development during this developmental stage. As more US states legalize cannabis, adolescents are increasingly perceiving it to be safe, compared