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Chronic Pain Patients Support Cannabis Access Expansion While Physicians Favor Restrictions, Study Finds
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 7:33pm | 544Those suffering from chronic pain are more in favor of policies that expand cannabis access compared to the physicians who provide their care, according to a study recently published in JAMA Network Open. The research from Rutgers Health and other institutions, covered states where medical cannabis...
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Federally Funded Study Shows Delta-8 THC Use Rises In States Where Marijuana Remains Illegal
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 3:14pm | 349A new federally funded study delves into cannabinoid use trends in the United States. Usage Trends in Non-Legal States Researchers from the Universities of Michigan and Buffalo and the Legacy Research Institute analyzed survey data from 1,169 adults, uncovering that in states...
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Covid-19 Pandemic Saw Spike In Children Ingesting Illicit Drugs, Study Shows
Monday, April 24, 2023 - 11:58am | 390The Covid-19 pandemic has posed a heightened risk of illicit substance consumption among children, according to a study from JAMA Network Open. There was a 25% increase in the number of children aged six and younger ingesting substances such as cannabis, opioids, amphetamines, benzodiazepines and...
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Psychosis-Related Outcomes Not Linked To State Cannabis Legalization, Finds Study Of 64M Americans
Monday, February 13, 2023 - 10:21pm | 411A recent study done by a team of Stanford University researchers concluded that there is no statistically significant difference in the rates of psychosis-related diagnoses and prescribed antipsychotics in states with medical or recreational cannabis policies as compared with...
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Cannabis Effective For Chronic Pain, Substituting Opioids: Johns Hopkins & Univ. Of Michigan Study Confirms
Friday, January 6, 2023 - 5:43pm | 586Nearly one in three patients with chronic pain use cannabis as an analgesic agent, and many of them say they're substituting marijuana for opioids, according to data published Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open. Researchers with the University of Michigan...
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Is Tobacco Vaping Associated With Cannabis Use In Youth? Here's What A New Study Found
Monday, August 8, 2022 - 7:51pm | 534A study found that adolescents who use e-cigarettes are over three times more likely to use cannabis than those who don’t. "E-cigarette use among cannabis-naive adolescents was associated with an increased likelihood of both self-reported past 12-month and past 30-day cannabis use 1 year...
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CBD: New Study Finds Wide Evidence Of Mislabeling For Cannabidiol Products
Friday, July 22, 2022 - 2:10pm | 894In a new study, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers tested more than a hundred topical cannabidiol (CBD) products, that are available online and at retail stores and found "significant evidence of inaccurate and misleading labeling of CBD content." In addition, some of these products...