Taggart’s study takes one step further than previous studies that determined that living in a disadvantaged neighborhood leads to escalated rates of marijuana use. She looks at two crucial characteristics to determine a neighborhood’s impact on health: neighborhood problems, which can describe a var...
Two New Studies Suggest Marijuana May Reduce Brain TraumaAbigail Tracy
Studies have also shown that using cannabis before sex canenhance pleasure for women. Researchers from Saint Louis University in Missouri surveyed 133 sexually active women on their marijuana use habits before sex during annual gynecology check-ups. In the study pub...
“Our findings on Medicaid prescribing behavior and estimated savings associated with medical marijuana laws, along with our previous results for Medicare enrollees, suggest that patients and physicians in the community are reacting to the availability of medical marijuana as if it were medicine,” the...
Longitudinal studies from the 1980s have shown that children born to mothers who used marijuana during pregnancy experienced long-term issues with cognitive and executive functioning, including impulsivity, as well as deficits in learning, sustained attention and visual problem-solving skills. ...
1 A 2018 meta-analysis2 concluded that the results from previous studies do not lend support to the hypothesis that MMLs increase marijuana use among youth, while the evidence on the effects of recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) is mixed. For instance, using data from Monitoring the Future, ...
Researchers have conducted a study in which mice voluntarily ate a dough containing THC, the primary psychoactive component in marijuana. That opens the door to additional studies that will help shed light on behavioral and physiological effects that occ
Case StudiesThe New Yorker editor Sheila Marikar attended the launch of our recently published report commissioned by Mr & Mrs Smith, where Chris Sanderson, co-founder of The Future Laboratory, summarised the findings in a captivating presentation. Is there room for champagne and chocolate when ...
Studies comparing the simultaneous use of alcohol and marijuana in states where marijuana is legal with states where it is still against the law will be needed to test this hypothesis. But some early evidence has already emerged that shows self-reports of past-month marijuana and a...
This correlation is consistent with previous studies, which demonstrate that children exposed to tobacco smoke are more likely to be exposed to marijuana smoke.7,13 More research is needed to study the effects of dual tobacco and marijuana and tobacco smoke exposure on children’s development and ...