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Insatiable Demand for Cannabis Has Created a Massive Carbon Footprint – And Other Environmental Harms! Colorado State University researchers provide the most detailed accounting to date of the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.     By COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY MARCH 8, 2021   The life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from indoor cannabis cultivation modeled across the U.S. Credit: Hailey […]

Younger age of first cannabis use or prescription drug misuse is associated with faster development of substance use disorders A new study shows that in the time after first trying cannabis or first misusing prescription drugs, the percentages of young people who develop the corresponding substance use disorder are higher among adolescents (ages 12-17) than

Cannabidiol Shows Promise as a Treatment for Cannabis Use Disorder: Boston University School of Medicine Oh, the Irony! Of course, in the naturally occurring and naturally growing, non-engineered cannabis plant (which no longer exists on the planet – other than perhaps in regions not yet traversed by humans) Cannabidiol (CBD) is the naturally occurring agonist

The industry lacks randomized controlled clinical trials that can clearly establish benefits and risks. By ©  Jane E. Brody March 8, 2021 …. of the same health concerns raised decades ago about using marijuana therapeutically are still unresolved, even as the potency of the plant’s intoxicating ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol, best known as THC, has increased fivefold.

A Review of Cases of Marijuana and Violence – Research (March 2020)  Abstract: Marijuana is the most consumed illicit drug in the world, with over 192 million users. Due to the current legalization push of marijuana in the United States, there has been a lack of oversight regarding its public health policies, as marijuana advocates downplay the

EU drug agency flags CBD market issues in report on low-THC cannabis products The European Union’s drug agency has signaled that it is mulling the legal and commercial status of CBD and cannabis-based products in Europe in a new report. The Lisbon-based European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction published the report on Monday,

As of February, 1st this year “low-dose cannabidiol (CBD)” has been available in the now lesser regulated ‘OTC’ (over the counter) space. The TGA had been ‘dancing’ with the ‘vote for medicine’ campaign, and whilst not fully endorsing it, has ushered in a sub-set of classification and rescheduled this particular cannabinoid. Now, this new line

It is very concerning that you are continuing to push the falsehood that youth and teen usage in Colorado is going down.  I am a practicing physician in Southern Colorado.  Our substance abuse has risen in ALL ages.  I am attaching a copy of my long term study data.  We are the only level 2

Co-use of alcohol and marijuana and beliefs among teens New Research in impact of cannabis legalization on teen consumption is predictably concerning. One of the single greatest drug-use promoting mechanisms is permission.  Parents ‘join in’ the permission paradigm, simply by following the unchallenged notion that… “if the government made it legal, it can’t be all