Some myths die hard—like the one about marijuana as a treatment for glaucoma patients.
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Prenatal Exposure to Cannabis Affects the Developing Brain→
/Children born to moms who smoked or ingested marijuana during pregnancy suffer higher rates of depression, hyperactivity, and inattention.
Read MoreMarijuana Is More Dangerous Than You Think→
/As legalization spreads, more Americans are becoming heavy users of cannabis, despite its links to violence and mental illness
Read MoreWhat Advocates of Legalizing Pot Don’t Want You to Know→
/With large studies in peer-reviewed journals showing that marijuana increases the risk of psychosis and schizophrenia, the scientific literature around the drug is far more negative than it was 20 years ago.
Read More‘Dead Skunk’ Stench From Marijuana Farms Outrages Californians
/Marijuana Stinks and neighbors have had enough
Carpinteria High School, in particular, is flanked by cannabis greenhouses that have sent odors wafting in. In the past two years, students have complained of headaches, parents have grown angry and the high school has had to warn visiting sports teams that they might encounter the odor.
Read MoreFor every dollar gained in tax revenue, Coloradans spent approximately $4.50 to mitigate the effects of legalization→
/The costs associated with commercial marijuana are only going to go up as the long-term health consequences have not been fully determined. Like tobacco, commercial marijuana is likely to have health consequences that we won’t be able to determine for decades. Those costs are not configured in this report.
Read MoreLegalized marijuana linked to a sharp rise in car crashes→
/With so many more states set to permit the use of the drug, Harkey said regulators, law enforcement, and medical authorities need to address “the challenge” and come up with better ways of determining when a driver might be operating under the influence of marijuana.
Read MoreGovernor lauds a pretend "experiment" with pot→
/“The Gazette has been trying all year to report on the impact of marijuana on Colorado five years after it was legalized. Time and again, our reporters have been frustrated by an infuriating lack of reliable data measuring that impact, despite state laws that require it,” explained Gazette Editor Vince Bzdek in an article titled “When it comes to data on pot’s impact, the state is driving with its eyes closed.”
Read MoreAmerica’s Invisible Pot Addicts→
/More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.
Read MoreAmericans' view of marijuana is rosy, and unscientific
/A nationally representative online survey of 16,280 U.S. adults found that many ascribe health benefits to marijuana that haven’t been proven, researchers report in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Read MoreMany cannabis dispensaries recommend pot to pregnant women→
/More than two-thirds of cannabis dispensaries recommend that pregnant women use marijuana to treat morning sickness even though doctors advise against it because of safety concerns, a U.S. study suggests.
Read MoreStudy Finds No Strong Evidence Cannabis Reduces Chronic Pain→
/A new study reports cannabis may not be as helpful in treating chronic pain as believed. Researchers say they have found no clear evidence that cannabis can reduce pain severity or pain interference in those with chronic non cancer pain.
Read MoreMarijuana users feel MORE pain
/Study finds cannabis lowers pain tolerance - meaning users need more painkillers after an injury
Read MorePsychosis often the effect of long-term, recreational marijuana use→
/Diego was a 20-year-old college junior who was brought to the emergency room by the police. They were called by his resident advisor for bizarre behavior in the dormitory. Diego was anxious, frequently glancing around the room, and talked in a disorganized manner about the Illuminati, Freemasons and the end of the world.
A urine drug screen was positive for cannabis. When asked later during the hospitalization, his resident advisor reported Diego smoked marijuana daily, and Diego admitted to being a daily marijuana smoker since arriving at college.
Read MoreMarijuana: Big Tobacco 2.0→
/As was the case with smoking tobacco, smoking marijuana is said to prove you’re sociable, hip, and modern.
As with tobacco, marijuana is portrayed not only as largely harmless, but as objectively good for you, with a credible function as self-medication for all sorts of ailments.
As with tobacco, marijuana is presented as a signifier of individual liberty and self-empowerment.
As with critics of tobacco, critics of marijuana are cast as petty tyrants trampling on freedom while peddling hysterical junk science.
And as with the tobacco industry, a cash-flush marijuana industry is eager to use its wealth to slant scientific study and political debate, lest its flattering claims begin to sire organized suspicion.
Read MoreRise in kids inhaling second-hand marijuana smoke at home as more US parents embrace the drug
/A growing number of American parents are using marijuana when they still have children living at home, according to a new study. The report suggests cannabis may be complicating efforts to limit kids' exposure to second-hand smoke.
Read MoreThe poison pills contained in Prop 64
/Despite promises that legalizing marijuana would kill the black market and tax revenues would fill state and local coffers. The black market is thriving, and the promised taxes are not being seen. The industry’s solution: they’re about to pass a bill to reduced excise tax on marijuana products from 15% to 11% and suspend the tax on marijuana cultivation (until Jun 1, 2021). This should only come as a surprise to people who failed to read the text of Prop 64 where it says tax can be cut all the way to zero to ensure the industry is thriving.
Read MoreDr. Sanjay Gupta misleads: No evidence marijuana helps curb opioid addiction→
/I have been practicing pain medicine in Colorado for 24 years and I have seen patients referred to me on very high-dose opioids, reporting very high levels of pain, and using marijuana for pain control. In discussions with these patients, and overall, more than 95 percent report that their use of marijuana does not help with their presenting pain symptoms.
Why America will regret legalizing marijuana→
/Chuck Schumer is trotting out old canards about how cannabis "doesn't hurt anybody else." Hearing him tout the virtues of legalization in Colorado and Washington ("lots of good and no harm!"), one is reminded of Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company that spent years (and millions) telling doctors that opioids weren't seriously addictive when prescribed to pain patients. It's stunning that educated people ever believed this, but many did. Today, many are equally anxious to believe that legal pot probably has little to do with Colorado's sharp increase in auto accidents. And there are homeless people everywhere, right? Correlation doesn't equal causation.
Read MoreWhy Marijuana is Not Medicine
/To reside in Schedules II-V and be approved for diagnosing, mitigating, treating or curing a specific medical condition, a substance or botanical must proceed through a rigorous FDA scientific process proving safety and efficacy. Not one form of “dispensary marijuana” with a wide range of THC levels — butane hash oil, smokables, vapors, edibles, liquids — has gone through this rigorous process for a single medical condition.
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