In 2014, over a one-month period, Twitter produced over 15 times as many pro-cannabis tweets as anti-cannabis ones .This trend of pro-cannabis information outweighing the anti-cannabis information online should contribute to a shift of cannabis attitudes in a more positive direction. Even so, there remains a gap between cannabis attitudes in the media and realized […]
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Speed of processing is required during driving tasks requiring rapid responses to unexpected events
Here, we define “driving scenarios” as the terrain, driving route, situations encountered, and environmental conditions represented within a simulated drive. If not designed in an evidenced-informed manner, driving scenarios may not allow for a sensitive and reliable measurement of cannabis-related effects on safe driving performance. Driving simulators also provide the ability to introduce graded challenges […]
Black patients were less likely to vape and Hispanic patients were more likely to use dabs/wax than other groups
For example, smoked cannabis and use of concentrates among adolescents have been associated with a higher risk of continued use relative to other modes , and smoked cannabis may carry the greatest risks due to exposure to carbon monoxide and other harmful by-products of combustion . Yet, little is known about the prevalence or correlates […]
MIP-1 cytokines are induced in myeloid cells in response tobacterial endotoxins or membrane components
Given the many toxicant components found in cannabis smokers, it is not surprising that cannabis smoking notably alters the oral microbial ecology. Importantly,long-term repeated oral inoculation of A. meyeri, which mimicked cannabis exposure-increased oral A. meyeri in humans, resulted in the development of CNS abnormalities.Recent studies have found correlations between Actinomyces and Alzheimer’s disease. For […]
Many analyses do not account for the influence of substances other than cannabis on driving
Our findings could serve as baseline data for future ad campaigns. According to Snapchat’s policy, ads that “promote cigarettes , cigars, vaping products, tobacco, nicotine, or related products of any kind” are prohibited. Leveraging Snapchat’s platform features can help monitor and amplify the reach of health education campaigns. For instance, incorporating Snapcodes in health messages […]
The first expansions occurred to the west and the east during the Miocene-Pliocene
A third assemblage corresponds to cultivated Cannabis, which is usually found together with cultivated cereals such as Avena , Hordeum , Secale and Triticum , as well weeds such as Centaurea or Scleranthus species. Using these phytosociological affinities, McPartland et al. attributed the Cannabis-like pollen types recorded in the literature to wild Cannabis if this […]
A reduction in hippocampal volume has been reported in long-term heavy cannabis users compared to non-cannabis users
Chronic exposure to THC reduces cannabinoid CB1 receptor sensitivity and/or efficacy at GABAergic, but not glutamatergic terminals in the CA1 region . This reduced sensitivity is accompanied by a down regulation of CB1 receptors, likely contributing to reduced receptor sensitivity . In the hippocampus, eCBs facilitate the induction of LTP through the transient suppression of […]
Cannabis-derived drugs are among the most widely used illicit substances in the world
The handful of existing attempts to model outcomes from cannabis law reform in New Zealand have faced significant domestic and international data limitations, most importantly the limited data on cannabis legalization implemented over- seas . As described earlier, we utilized the NZ-DHI estimates of the health and social harm of cannabis as the starting point […]
Increasing drug treatment capacity also received a low relative importance by the stakeholders
The longer timeframe of cannabis legalization in Uruguay has allowed more evaluation, utilizing neighboring countries as control groups, and has found only minimal impacts on adolescent use and perceived risk of use to date . Drawing on the extensive research literature of effective public health regulation of alcohol and tobacco markets , we assumed that […]
The CUDIT-R is one of the most widely used measures to assess and detect problematic cannabis use
First, while we incorporated extensive checks to prevent multiple registrations by one person, we relied on self-report regarding cannabis use both at the time of recruitment and at follow-up. Second, the outcome measures employed were fairly crude. Perhaps, in an environment where cannabis is legal, the variable number of days used cannabis in the past […]