Incidents of patients exhibiting compulsive drug-seeking behavior; Advantages as a medicine; Marijuana smoking's effect on short-term memory; Little evidence on the long-term physiological effects of marijuana; Increase in the number of people with major psychiatric disorders....
Some critics argue the DEA shouldn’t change course on marijuana, saying rescheduling isn’t necessary and could lead to harmful side effects. Jack Riley, a former deputy administrator of the DEA, said he had concerns about the proposed change because he thinks marijuana remains a possible "gate...
leaves, stems, and seeds of the cannabis plant, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Marijuana use may have a wide range of health effects on the body and brain.
Marijuana, legal for medical uses in well over half the states in the country and as a recreational substance in ever more states, is generating increasing concern as a dependency-causing drug capable of serious impairment and harm, particularly among its youngest users. New Jersey voters will ge...
Not to be confused with marijuana Synthetic cannabinoids act on the same brain cell receptors as THC, the mind-altering ingredient in marijuana. However, they're man-made in a laboratory, with chemical structures that don't look anything like THC. Moreover, their actual effects can be unpredic...
WASHINGTON (AP)-TheU.S.Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassifymarijuanaas a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple-effects across the country. ...
Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple-effects across the country. The DEA’s proposal, which still must be reviewed by the ...
” NTSB Office of Highway Safety director Robert Molloy tellsFortune.“We recognized that teenagers are especially vulnerable to the risks associated with marijuana-impaired driving due to their limited driving experience… I think we also do a poor job of talking about the effects of marijuana on...
Marijuana began its long and continuing journey to legalization when California voters passed Proposition 215, allowing for the medical use of marijuana. Since this ruling, 32 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico have made moves to enact similar legislation and approval for comprehensive public...
It is mentioned that Colorado approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes in 2008 and by 2011 there are 120,000 registered users of marijuana in the state. The author discusses the misuse of marijuana as pot by teenagers and informs on its various adverse effects.BERDAHL...