Racism Persists Even With Changing Attitudes About Cannabis
A shocking example of this comes in form of the arrest and subsequent abuse of business woman Kam Brock — a black woman who was pulled over while driving her BMW through Harlem.
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Why Not Try Medical Marijuana for Pets?
Last week, Nevada state Senator Tick Segerblom introduced a bill in the Nevada legislature that would allow pets to use medical marijuana.
Cannabis Causes Psychosis? The Answer Is in the Hash
Researchers" relied on self reporting, which is historically not reliable and the study only looks at two forms of cannabis, skunk and hash.
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Marijuana Study: Suspending Kids for Pot Smoking May Encourage Further Use
Suspending children from school for drug use could actually encourage their classmates to smoke pot, rather than deter them. Suspensions have also been shown to increase disengagement from school, delinquency or anti-social behaviour such as smoking and alcohol use, but ...
Dinosaurs Ate Magic Grass Before It Was Cool
Scientists have been studying 100 million year old grass found in Myanmar, cased in amber. The study's lead author stated that he's fairly certain that the infected grasses would have been eaten by sauropods.
New Study Supports What We All Knew: Cannabis Is the Safest Drug
A study recently came out backing up what pro-cannabis advocates have known (and been screaming at naysayers) for decades: cannabis is safer than booze, tobacco and other drugs.
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Nip It in the Bud: How Skunk DOES NOT Cause Psychosis
A new study was released last week showing that smoking skunk-type cannabis can increase the risk of psychotic episodes. Unfortunately for the researcher, and the legion of journalists who wrote about it without fact-checking the study, the study’s methodology and definitions are entirely hogwash.
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Marijuana May Be Even Safer Than Previously Thought, Researchers Say
Compared with other recreational drugs — including alcohol — marijuana may be even safer than previously thought. And researchers may be systematically underestimating risks associated with alcohol use. Those are the top-line findings of recent research published in the journal Scientific Reports, a subsidiary of Nature.
Scientists Tackle Explaining "The Munchies"
Many are familiar with this common effect of smoking cannabis, and scientists have recently set out to explain why smoking weed makes people so hungry. Researchers from the Yale School of Medicine recently published a study where they attempted to identify the area of the brain responsible for weedist's overwhelming desire to eat large quantities of food after smoking.
Study Suggests Possible Link Between Mania and Cannabis Use
Apparently, researchers at the University of Warwick believe they have uncovered a "significant" link between cannabis use and mania symptoms. They suggest that their findings show cannabis use has both a causal link to mania as well as a magnifying effect on preexisting mania symptoms.
Study: Cannabis Doesn't Lead to Increased Car Accidents
More bad news for the hysterical anti-pot crowd: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration just released a report stating that driving after using cannabis does not increase your chances of getting into an accident.
Researchers Find Twitter Has Reefer Madness
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have recently conducted a detailed analysis of attitudes towards weed on Twitter. Their findings: Twitter loves the ganj.
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Landmark Study Finds Marijuana Is Not Linked to Car Crashes
In "the first large-scale study in the United States to include drugs other than alcohol," NHTSA found that, once the data were adjusted for confounding variables, cannabis consumption was not associated with an increased probability of getting into an accident.
Australian Study Reports Efficacy of Cannabis for Pain Therapy
A study recently released by scientists at the University of New South Wales' National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre illustrated that cannabis users reported significant pain relief from cannabis.
Colorado Publishes Review of Marijuana Health Research
Colorado released a sweeping report Monday about marijuana and health — everything from pot’s effect on drivers, asthma, cancer rates and birth defects. The 188-page report doesn’t include new research on marijuana. Instead, it’s a review of what its authors call limited existing studies.
New View on Addiction: Compassion, Not Isolation
The revolutionary idea? Addiction is not caused by substances, rather, it is caused by isolation.
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Terpene Profile: Borneol
In this issue of Terpene Profiles, the properties of borneol are broken down and the therapeutic benefits are explored. Get to know this terpene and discover what studies are currently being done to determine its wide variety of medicinal benefits.
DPA Report: Employment Rates Rise Due to CO Cannabis Legalization
The industry created over ten thousand new jobs and brought in approximately $19 million a month. Rather than bringing about the end of society as we know it, cannabis legalization is only improving the job market and giving people a good time.