2015. "Do Medical Marijuana Laws Reduce Addictions and Deaths Related to Pain Killers?" NBER Working Paper No. 21345.Powell, David, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, & Mireille Jacobs. 2015. Do medical marijuana laws reduce addiction and deaths related to pain killers? RAND Corporation, WR-1130, http:...
Medical marijuana patients also had more days of weed use than recreational users, researchers found. “These findings suggest that medically recommended cannabis is not associated with reduced addiction risk compared with nonmedical use,” the research team led byDr. Nora Volkow, director of the Na...
Medical Marijuana: The Safer Option Cannabis medicine can repair some of the damage to public health the opioid crisis has caused in multiple ways. It helps patients going through chronic pain and addiction, reducing our reliance on oxycodone and other opioids. Advocates and researchers are intereste...
Medical marijuana patients also had more days of weed use than recreational users, researchers found. “These findings suggest that medically recommended cannabis is not associated with reduced addiction risk compared with nonmedical use,” the research team led byDr. Nora Volkow, director of the Na...
Addiction (cannabis use disorder). This is more likely to happen among teens than among adult users. People who should not use marijuana include: Those who are pregnant. THC can get into the fetal brain and affect later attention, memory, and problem-solving. Marijuana also can increase the ...
Medical Marijuana: Learn how medical marijuana works, where it's legal, what it's used for, and what side effects it might cause.
Physician David Casarett was tired of hearing hype and half-truths around medical marijuana, so he put on his skeptic's hat and investigated on his own. He comes back with a fascinating report on what we know and what we don't...
Using a dugout allows quick access to marijuana accessories, making it easier to enjoy cannabis consumption on the go. How to empty a dugout becomes important once you’re finished smoking. Different types of one hitter pipes (glass, metal, etc.) After you light the cannabis and inhale th...
Some misconceptions about the drug include its potential to cause addiction, the damaging of brain cells, genetic damage, violent behavior, and damage to the immune system. These misconceptions, which have plagued a large percentage of the population into thinking that marijuana is a bad drug, ...
But by the late 1800s, with morphine addiction rampant in the United States, attitudes toward drugs such as marijuana shifted dramatically. As a result, the Food and Drug Administration was formed in 1906. While marijuana wasn't specifically mentioned in the original FDA guidelines, the move to...