Cannabis Conundrum

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

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

 “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

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

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

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