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Teen alcohol and drug use -- including marijuana use -- was down across the board in 2014. That's the big take-home from the 2014 Monitoring the Future study by the University of Michigan and the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, which was released Tuesday morning. The MTF is an annual survey of 40,000 8th-graders, 10th-graders and 12th-graders.
With science, medical science in particular, it is important to be able to replicate results with a certain degree of certainty before anything can be viewed as factual.
Parents who have seen CBD oil offer their children, literally, a shot at a decent life, swear by marijuana's efficacy. On the other side, opponents think that no matter how amazing the results, cannabis has no place in the lives of children.
In a new study, researchers found that women between the age of 30 and 50 are key players in the battle for legalization in Colorado and Washington.
Over a year ago, photographer Nichole Montanez began a project titled "Faces of Cannabis." Her mission is to share the truth of what medical cannabis has done for children with epilepsy.
Opponents of legalization have, for a couple of years, been spouting off that marijuana use (especially among teens) is responsible for a drop in IQ. This argument has been a fairly large lynchpin in their anti-pot stance.
A Colorado high school went into modified lockdown after a student apparently took a big hit off a gravity bong.
Since decriminalization, have any of these apocalyptic divinations come to fruition? Nope. Not a single one has come true. Not only are teen arrest, dropout and overdose rates not increasing, they have actually declined since the reform passed.
Well, the ghoulish holiday came and went, so how did these scarey stories hold up? Turns out, surprise surprise, this was just another case of good old fashioned reefer madness.
Recently, Denver police issued a pre-Halloween warning to residents: The candy your kids get this Halloween could be infused with Marijuana and you should just throw it out if it's not from one of the big name-brand candy companies (since when did Halloween work for corporate America?).
Here is yet another marijuana success story that flies directly in the face of its schedule I federal status designation of "no medical use." 4 year old boy Landon Riddle was diagnosed with leukemia and prescribed a rigorous treatment of chemotherapy and a myriad of anti-cancer pills.
When it comes to parenting, these pot-smoking moms are unapologetic about getting high. When Jane West and her friends get together, the laughter rolls, trays of food and stories are passed around. But instead of splitting bottles of wine...
The idea that cannabis could be much worse for teenage users than previously expected, could make any parent lose sleep at night. Fortunately, those parents can breathe a little easier - because the story's lede is misleading nearly to the point of outright falsehood.
You can imagine how loud my eyes rolled when I read about Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper's anti-teen-marijuana use campaign. Much like the ridiculous "this is your brain on drugs" egg-frying scenes from my youth, the Governor's message is "Don't be a lab rat."
Christine Stenquist, a 42-year-old Kaysville, Utah mom, has been suffering from severe and chronic migraines since the age of 7, has an inoperable brain tumor and fibromyalgia.
The stigma around cannabis dissolves quickly when you're a parent with a sick baby. You will move the stars and box glaciers to make them well.
For many medical marijuana patients, simply having cannabis in a house where children reside could result in claims of child abuse. No one runs the risk of being labeled an abuser of children for having aspirin, chardonnay, or peanuts in their home.
I stumbled upon this gem of a site, that claims to put out "science-based information for the public" from the UW's Institute for Alcohol and Drug Abuse. In my never-ending quest to find cannabis myth being spread as fact, I felt the need to comb through this site a bit and see just what "science-based information" they are disseminating.
