Cannabis Conundrum

State-Based Drug Use Survey Finds Marijuana Use Skyrocketing in “Legal” States

 Colorado, Washington, Nevada, and  Massachusetts Post Increases in Youth Use Over Previous Year (Alexandria, VA) – Today, state-level data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the most authoritative study on drug use conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA), finds that marijuana use in “legal” states among youth, young adults, and the general

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Frequent marijuana use could literally change a person’s heart

This early study isn’t conclusive, but its findings could have grave implications. Sports leagues, state legislators, and universities are changing the way they treat and punish marijuana use largely because the drug is increasingly perceived as harmless. But preliminary research suggests cannabis may have a dangerous side effect on one critical organ: the heart. The new study, which evaluated the health of 3,407 people

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Cannabis, Genetic Impact & Cancer

As is known cannabis causes a dramatic increase in genetic junk by chromothripsis and other mechanisms. And is known to be linked with deformed chromosomes… Including small circular chromosomes. Such small circular DNA fragments have long been known to be detectable in the serum of cancer patient’s circulating blood. Now these small circular extracellular DNA

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Cannabis Use Based on Urine Drug Screens in Pregnancy and Its Association With Infant Birth Weight.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (DSH, DND, DSL) and Hatton Research Institute, TriHealth, Cincinnati, Ohio (CGD). Abstract OBJECTIVES: This study aims to clarify any association between infant birth weight and cannabis use in pregnancy based on urine drug screens. METHODS: A retrospective medical record review of singleton births from August 2013 through December 2014 with available urine

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Cannabis-induced psychosis blamed in beheading of father at Muskoka cottage 

Warning: Graphic and disturbing content The court heard cannabis-induced psychosis, not a major mental disorder, spurred the brutal death of 67-year-old John Kehl by his then 31-year-old son Adam. Adam Kehl voluntarily entered a plea of guilty to manslaughter in front of The Honourable Michelle Fuest in Barrie court on Nov. 22 who called the

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