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Cannabis Contaminants Limit Pharmacological Use of Cannabidiol

May 12, 2022 No Comments

For nearly a century, Cannabis has been stigmatized and criminalized across the globe, but in recent years, there has been a growing interest in Cannabis due to the therapeutic potential of phytocannabinoids. With this emerging interest in Cannabis, concerns have arisen about the possible contaminations of hemp with pesticides, heavy metals, microbial pathogens, and carcinogenic compounds during the cultivation, manufacturing,

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Varied Presentations of Pediatric Patients With Positive Cannabinoid Tests

May 9, 2022 No Comments

Cannabis (marijuana) is one of the most abused drugs worldwide. The past decade has seen an increase in the legalization of cannabis for both medicinal and recreational use. As of June 2021, 36 states allow the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes, and that number is expected to increase with additional states considering legalization in

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Longitudinal Course of Mental Health Symptoms Among Veterans With and Without Cannabis Use Disorder

April 21, 2022 No Comments

Cannabis use disorder (CUD) is the most common non-alcohol related substance use disorder (SUD) in the United States and is especially prevalent among returning veterans. The long-term mental health correlates of CUD remain unknown, which is significant given the rise in legalization and also recreational and medicinal cannabis use nationally. In the first long-term and

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Lifetime marijuana use and epigenetic age acceleration: A 17-year prospective examination

April 18, 2022 No Comments

This study was designed to assess links between lifetime levels of marijuana use and accelerated epigenetic aging. This was a prospective longitudinal study, following participants annually from age 13 to age 30. The participants were 154 individuals from a small city in the Southeastern United States. Participants completed annual assessments of marijuana use from age 13 to age

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Marijuana Legalization and Opioid Deaths

March 24, 2022 No Comments

Over the last two decades there has been considerable movement at the state-level to legalize marijuana, initially for medical purposes and more recently for recreational consumption. Despite prior research, it is unclear how, if at all, these policies are related to rates of opioid-involved overdose deaths, which have trended rapidly upwards over time and represent

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Mom Says Her Son’s Delta 8 Use Turned Fatal

March 10, 2022 No Comments

Meet Rita, a mom who says her son Brian’s Delta 8 usage turned fatal. Rita shares he started complaining about loss of time, blacking out and hearing voices, but she did not realize those symptoms were related to his use of Delta 8. After he took his life, a toxicology report only found THC in his

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Recent Trends in Marijuana-Related Hospital Encounters in Young Children

January 31, 2022 No Comments

Multiple states have passed legislation permitting marijuana use. The impact of legalization on trends in hospital encounters for marijuana exposures in young children across states remains unknown. This study, published in Academic Pediatrics in July 2021, aims to describe trends in marijuana-related hospital encounters over time in children <6 years and assess the association of

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First Medical Textbook on Cannabis in Medicine

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