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CANNABIS CRONYISM 02/19/2021 |
What else explains the rapid march towards legalization by both Democrats For two parties that can't even agree on the time of day, how does pot
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Drugs Identified in Deceased Person by Florida Medical Examiner 02/19/2021 |
Dr. Bertha Madras speaks at the House Professions and Public Health Subcommittee The most frequently occurring drugs found in decedents were ethyl alcohol (5,385), benzodiazepines (4,209, including 1,523 alprazolam occurrences), fentanyl (3,655), cocaine (2,962), cannabinoids (2,710), morphine (1,855), amphetamine (1,425), methamphetamine (1,419), fentanyl analogs (1,418) and oxycodone (1,181). Since heroin is rapidly metabolized to morphine, this may lead to a substantial over‐reporting of morphine‐related deaths as well as significant under‐reporting of heroin‐related deaths. |
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Momentum builds in the Legislature for medical marijuana THC caps 02/19/2021 |
Caps on THC, the euphoria-inducing chemical found in many strains of medical cannabis, are again an open question in the Florida Legislature. |
madras | |
Lawmakers challenge professor’s controversial cannabis presentation 02/19/2021 |
Rep. Smith is pro-pot and rude to speakers... write on his twitter https://twitter.com/CarlosGSmith/status/1361822803922722826 |
madras, FLAPOL | |
Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed on Behalf of Young Woman Who Died After Ingesting Marijuana Edibles 10/20/2020 |
“These companies disguise and market their products as safe, fun and healthy, going so far as to represent to consumers that the products ‘deliver(ed) the wellbeing and relief to all those that seek it.’ What they do not tell consumers is that the use of their products carry extreme risk of serious injury or even death,” said Francavilla.” |
fatal, Fatalities | |
Marijuana and Breastfeeding 10/13/2020 |
Updated information and brochure |
Pregnancy, Breastfeeding | |
Coalition of Thirty Groups Send Letter in Opposition to MORE Act to US House Leadership 09/19/2020 |
Today, a coalition of social justice, drug prevention, recovery, family, and faith organizations penned a joint letter to the leadership of the United States House of Representatives strongly opposing the MORE Act, a bill to federally legalize the commercial marijuana industry that is tentatively scheduled for a vote the week of September 21st. |
SAM, legalization | |
Maternal cannabis use in pregnancy and child neurodevelopmental outcomes 08/10/2020 |
Maternal cannabis use in pregnancy and child neurodevelopmental outcomes We link pregnancy and birth data to provincial health administrative databases to ascertain child neurodevelopmental outcomes. We use matching techniques to control for confounding and Cox proportional hazards regression models to examine associations between prenatal cannabis use and child neurodevelopment. Marijuana Use During Pregnancy Linked To Autism In Children: Study |
Pregnancy | |
Association Between the Use of Cannabis and Physical Violence in Youths: A Meta-Analytical Investigation 06/01/2020 |
After screening 11,348 potential studies....These results demonstrate a moderate association between cannabis use and physical violence, which remained significant regardless of study design and adjustment for confounding factors (i.e., socioeconomic factors, other substance use). Cannabis use in this population is a risk factor for violence. |
meta-analysis, Research | |
Cannabis Increases Propensity for False Memories 05/08/2020 |
To look for longer-term effects of cannabis, the experimenters called the subjects back a week later and tested them again on the word lists, this time with a few different dummy words thrown in. They also re-interviewed the subjects about the VR scenarios using a combination of old and new questions. As before, they found lower memory accuracy in the word-association test in those who had been intoxicated compared with sober participants. There were no statistically significant differences between the groups for the virtual reality scenarios, a result that Kloft says may indicate memory decay over time in all participants. |
Research, memory, false memories | |
Lungs, Heart, Brain: The Health Risks Of Vaping That Doctors Know — And The Ones They Don’t 02/29/2020 |
How do you solve a problem like Colorado’s teen vaping rate, the highest in the nation? |
Vaping, Colorado | |
Know the Risks- Cigarettes 02/29/2020 |
E-cigarette use poses a significant – and avoidable – health risk to young people in the United States. Besides increasing the possibility of addiction and long-term harm to brain development and respiratory health, e-cigarette use is associated with the use of other tobacco products that can do even more damage to the body. Even breathing e-cigarette aerosol that someone else has exhaled poses potential health risks. |
Vaping, surgeon General | |
Teen tobacco ordinance pondered in wake of vaping injuries 02/24/2020 |
“We had a kid that had to be taken over to Utah and put in a mental health facility. He was there about a month or more because of a drug-induced psychosis caused by too much marijuana products. The only thing that was in his system was THC,” Hildreth said. “It was scary for his parents and us because no one knew what was happening. None of us had ever seen marijuana do that to anyone before.” |
Vaping, NV | |
Teen tobacco ordinance pondered in wake of vaping injuries 02/24/2020 |
But nicotine is not the only “wax” or “juice” that students consume with their devices. The legalization of cannabis products also opened a product line, with CBD and THC juices available for purchase online or in recreational marijuana dispensaries. |
Vaping | |
Hillsborough County and beyond facts, Impact of Legalizing Marijuana in Flordia and throughout the Nation 02/24/2020 |
The real cost in legalizing marijuana can be counted by the lives impacted- addiction, vaping, dispensing, traffic deaths, suicides, overdoses, … |
Colorado, suicide, addiction, Florida, Brain | |
The Real Cost of Vaping 02/22/2020 |
As an educator, you can play an active role in fighting the teen vaping epidemic. FDA research suggests that when teachers talk about the health consequences of e-cigarettes and schools enforce anti-vaping policies, students may be less likely to vape. Use these resources to start an honest conversation with your class and help to change social norms at your school. |
scholastic, Vaping, teacher, students | |
Hillsborough becomes latest to ease marijuana laws 02/20/2020 |
Some parents, however, have concerns. Teresa Miller believes marijuana triggered her son's dangerous drug habit.
"Twelve years ago, my son was smoking marijuana," she said. "Within a year, he springboarded to severe opioid addiction."
Miller is worried someone can now be caught with 20 grams of pot and face minimal punishment.
"Twenty grams is conservatively 60 joints. That's a lot. You're not going to be carrying that around for personal use. So I'm a little concerned that it was that high of grams. I think it should be less," she said. "I'm really hoping and praying that people don't decide, 'Well, since it's semi-legal and I'm not going to go to jail, that I can use it.'"
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miller, Hillsborough, Florida, Laws | |
Is marijuana use associated with decreased use of prescription opioids? Toxicological findings from two US national samples of d 02/17/2020 |
CONCLUSIONS: |
opioid, drivers, PubMed | |
A Narco-Nation of Potheads, Courtesy of George Soros 02/13/2020 |
In the United States, he is best known for almost single-handedly creating a narco-nation through legalization of marijuana, causing human suffering and environmental devastation on a scale most people do not yet comprehend. With the nation focused on the opioid danger, and President Trump accusing China of pumping fentanyl into the veins of American victims through Mexico, the marijuana problem has gotten less attention. Indeed, liberal politicians and prosecutors, some of them getting Soros money, are treating the dope as a harmless substance and even a money-maker for local and state governments. |
soros, Illinois, violence | |
Mike Crapo wisely puts children before cannabis profits 02/13/2020 |
In the first nine months of 2019, the marijuana industry spent more than $3.8 million lobbying Congress, according to OpenSecrets — employing a total of 80 lobbyists. That put the industry on track to spend far more on lobbyists in 2019 than in the previous two years combined. Yet it’s a modest investment considering the potential payout. If enacted, the SAFE Banking Act is expected to drive billions of dollars of new investment into this rapidly evolving sector. |
Crapo, Safe Banking | |
Hemp Marijuana Scanner 02/12/2020 |
The study also uncovered the scanner's ability to distinguish among different varieties of hemp and marijuana. In the changing legal landscape, there are thousands of varieties of cannabis, many of questionable quality. |
scanner | |
Adolescent cannabis exposure increases heroin reinforcement in rats genetically vulnerable to addiction. 02/12/2020 |
THC pre-exposure increased responding for heroin and heroin intake under FR-3 and FR-5 as well as PR protocols and increased breaking point in PR schedules in LEW but not F344 rats. Drug cues and heroin priming reinstated responding in LEW and F344, but THC pre-exposure increased reinstatement by priming in LEW rats and by cues in F344 rats. These observations show that in genetically predisposed individuals, adolescent cannabis exposure increases heroin reinforcing properties, thus providing a mechanism for a causal role of adolescent cannabis use in heroin abuse. |
heroin | |
Understanding Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) using tree-based classifiers 02/12/2020 |
Machine learning can accurately predict adults at risk for OUD, and identify interactions among the factors that pronounce this risk. Curbing early initiation of marijuana may be an effective prevention strategy against opioid addiction, especially in high risk groups. |
OUD, opioid | |
States need to wake up to public health risks from cannabis 02/12/2020 |
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Health Risk of Vaping 01/27/2020 |
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Vaping, video | |
An Overview of Cannabis Use in Pregnancy 01/16/2020 |
Consumption of cannabis during pregnancy results in cannabinoid placental crossing and accumulation in the fetal brain, and other organs, where it interferes with neurodevelopment and the endocannabinoid system. Use during the postnatal period can also lead to secretion in breast milk for extended periods (up to a week) after last use. From retrospective studies, we know prenatal cannabis ingestion has been associated with anemia in the mothers as well as low birth weights, greater risk of preterm and stillbirths, as well as increased need for neonatal intensive care unit admissions. |
Pregnancy | |
Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with the Use of E-Cigarette, or Vaping, Products 12/12/2019 |
CDC, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), state and local health departments, and other clinical and public health partners are investigating a national outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI). |
CDC, Vaping, states, Mapping | |
Monitoring the Future 2018 Survey Results 12/04/2019 |
Vaping - Data Highlights Strong correlation between vaping nicotine and vaping marijuana:
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monitoring the future, Vaping | |
Big dope: how marijuana benefited from one of the slickest PR campaigns in history 11/30/2019 |
Wild mass killings of this sort are a post-1960 phenomenon. So, applying the rules of logic, the availability of guns simply cannot be the significant variable. |
stroup | |
Pot Opens a Pandoras Box 11/30/2019 |
A previous study last March in the Lancet also showed that cannabis use increases psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. |
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Michigan forces dispensaries to stop selling marijuana vapes until more testing can be done 11/24/2019 |
People need to be educated that marijuana even 'medical' marijuana is not FDA approved and therefore is not a prescription. Often contains mold, pesticides, fertilizers, unknown amounts of other chemicals and THC potency may be incorrect. |
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Marijuana increases alcohol consumption in Canadian study 11/24/2019 |
In a recent cohort study of alcohol consumption in Canada, marijuana use was found to increase demand for alcohol. In other words, those who reported marijuana and alcohol use consumed significantly more alcohol than those who reported only alcohol use. The mechanism for this association is not entirely clear. However, these findings have important implications for treatment and prevention, particularly in the context of changes in marijuana legalization. In the USA, greater alcohol consumption can only mean increases in traffic fatalities and injuries, violent crime, and all the other negative population-wide outcomes and costs associated with alcohol and marijuana use. Interestingly, in Colorado, where marijuana has been legal for recreational use since 2014, all these negative indicators have been on the rise along with a conspicuous increase in alcohol consumption. |
Canada, alcohol | |
Should All Drugs Be Legal? A Soho Forum Debate 11/24/2019 |
Reason's Jacob Sullum and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson debate eliminating laws that prohibit the use and sale of narcotics. |
Berenson | |
Harmless Pot. Sure. 11/15/2019 |
![]() I have never represented a heroin junkie or a meth head who didn’t start with marijuana. Legalization of it is now all the rage in Democrat controlled states like Illinois, and it is a stupid mistake. From Rod Dreher:
View the Dragnet video... same story for 50 years. More research isn't going to change the outcome actually the outcomes with the stronger pot are getting worse and worse. Did you know if research projects aren't going the way the funder desires they don't have to be published... How many studies have been scrapped because the results are negative, harmful, longlasting.... ? |
Berenson, american catholic | |
DEA and the Surgeon General Issue Statements Regarding Marijuana 11/12/2019 |
The key points raised by the advisory (and supported by significant research) include:
I found it interesting that, in addition to issuing the warning regarding marijuana use, Dr. Adams reiterates what the Food and Drug Administration has been warning the public about regarding CBD products, |
surgeon General, Adams | |
Hillsborough County approves regulations on selling, using vaping products 11/06/2019 |
The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners has determined that the prohibition on the sale, possession, and use of vapor‐generating electronic devices and vapor products should be extended to include young adults under the age of 21. |
Vaping, tampa, Florida | |
VMS Resolution- Regulation of Cannabidiol (CBD) 11/05/2019 |
VERMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY RESOLUTION- WHEREAS, non-prescribed CBD consumer products sold can contain up to 24 mg of THC, more than that of a typical cannabis joint, which contains up to 17 mg of THC, putting the consumer at risk for intoxication, unintended cannabis addiction relapse, and unintended mental health harm; |
Vermont, CBD, medical association | |
Suicide Counts Map by County, Colorado Coroners Association 11/05/2019 |
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suicide, Colorado | |
The Grassroots of Grass: Cannabis Legalization Ballot Initiative Campaign Contributions and Outcomes, 2004-2016 11/04/2019 |
Conclusion: These results underscore the importance of health advocate participation in developing cannabis legalization frameworks. |
legalization, ncbi | |
SANDAG Report Finds an Increase in THC Vaping Among Local Arrestees, Clearinghouse Sandag Volume 21 Issue 11 11/02/2019 |
The new SANDAG report, Marijuana Use Among San Diego Arrestees: Two Years of Data Post–Proposition 64 found that in 2018, 71% of adults and 53% of juveniles felt the potency of marijuana had increased since they started using, up from 63% and 39% respectively in 2017. |
Vaping, Arrest, San Diego, california | |
Marijuana Concentrates 10/27/2019 |
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Safe Banking Act- Federal Bill 10/27/2019 |
The SAFE Banking Act (H.R. 1595/S. 1200) contains no public health guardrails to deal with the pot vaping crisis or incredibly potent flavored marijuana vapes that have been warned about by the Surgeon General. • The SAFE Banking Act would allow billions in investment into the same illegal marijuana companies that are creating marijuana vapes like those that are causing this crisis. |
Vaping | |
Kids Health- Vaping flavored pods 10/24/2019 |
video, Vaping | ||
The Doctor Is In: Answering Your Marijuana Questions 10/24/2019 |
![]() The Nation's Doctor, VADM Jerome M. Adams, M.D., answers top questions about marijuana. The U.S. Surgeon General addresses marijuana-related questions he often receives including those related to the chemical composition and potency of today’s marijuana, associated risks, and what parents and teachers can say to young people about marijuana. |
surgeon General, video | |
Legalizing Marijuana: Why Citizens Should Just Say No 10/22/2019 |
Although this article is from 2010, the information is still relevant. We now have more data to oppose legalization of marijuana for any reason. |
stimson, Heritage Foundation, talking points | |
The Rate Of Teen Suicide In Colorado Increased By 58% 10/18/2019 |
In the past three years, teen suicide in Colorado rose from 12.9 to 20.4 deaths per 100,000 adolescents ages 15-19, according to the report. Overall, that rate put Colorado as the sixth worst state. |
Colorado, suicide, Teens | |
2019 10 Florida Medical Marijuana 10/17/2019 |
The Florida medical marijuana market continues to expand at a rapid pace. |
Florida, Medical | |
Florida Medical Marijuana Usage 10/17/2019 |
Florida, Medical | ||
2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health 10/16/2019 |
Survey, SAMSHA | ||
An Update On The Florida Medical Marijuana Market 10/14/2019 |
The Florida medical marijuana market continues to expand at a rapid pace. |
Medical, Florida | |
Lung Injury Associated with E-Cigarette Use, or Vaping* - Florida 10/11/2019 |
Link continues to update with information. Latest from the Florida Department of Health on the Vape Lung Illness Crisis. The number of vape lung illnesses increased from 27 to 39. When will Governor DeSantis announce his plan to fight against this crisis? According to the CDC, most cases are linked to vaped marijuana (THC). What is the FL medical marijuana industry doing to protect patients? |
Vaping, Florida, Death | |
California vape maker Kushy Punch caught making illegal products 10/09/2019 |
There they found an illegal cannabis product manufacturing operation apparently operated by Kushy Punch, a legal state-licensed company. Authorities seized a number of finished products, including gummies in Kushy Punch packaging and disposable vaporizers in Kushy Vape packaging. |
Vaping | |
Pot Vaping Crisis- SAM 10/09/2019 |
Talking Points: |
Vaping, SAM | |
Active cannabis marketing and adolescent past-year cannabis use 10/09/2019 |
A new study finds that approximately one in three adolescents were exposed to marijuana promotions on social media or had a favorite marijuana brand. |
Media, youth | |
2019 Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey 10/09/2019 |
Florida, youth, Survey | ||
Lung Damage From Vaping Resembles Chemical Burns, Report Says 10/02/2019 |
The lung damage in some people who have become ill after vaping nicotine or marijuana products resembles a chemical burn, doctors from the Mayo Clinic reported on Wednesday. |
Vaping | |
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana? 09/25/2019 |
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana? Podcasts Answers all the myths with science and facts. Is it safe to drive using marijuana? If it is a medicine, how can it hurt me? What does marijuana use do to my brain? .... |
Podcasts, Brain, driving, Effects | |
Why Giving Pot Pushers Access to Our Banks Is Dangerous, SAM on 'Safe' Banking 09/25/2019 |
It should be called the “Let’s Pretend Marijuana Is Safe and Give Pot Pushers, Cartels, and Terrorist Organizations Access to Our Banking System” Act.
Don’t hold your breath for a title change. Regardless of the title, the idea behind the act ignores reality and, if passed, will lead to disastrous results.
This bill is all about protecting people and businesses who openly commit federal crimes by selling marijuana, and rewarding them by giving them access to the most important banking system in the world to further give them the patina of legitimacy.
And at the same time the House is considering this bill, the data on the impact of the legalization experiment across the country is proving just what a dangerous and bad idea legalization has become.
The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area report on the impact of legalization in Colorado is devastating for those pushing pot. The report found:
The report also shows that the tax revenue from state-authorized marijuana sales, far from being a game-changer like pot pushers said it would be, amounted to around nine-tenths of 1% (000.9%) of Colorado’s fiscal year 2018 budget. Previous reports are just as bad. Pot Is a Schedule I Controlled Dangerous Substance for Good Reason Passed in 1970, the Controlled Substances Act places marijuana in Schedule I, a category reserved for drugs that are medically unhelpful and dangerous. Schedule I drugs have a high potential for abuse, have no currently accepted medical use in treatment, and a lack of accepted safety for use even under medical supervision. States have passed so-called medical marijuana laws under the theory that pot has medicinal benefits that can’t be produced by other legal means. In making those claims, pot pushers want us to ignore the fact that today’s marijuana is one of the most genetically modified substances on the earth, has over 500 known carcinogens, has THC levels that dwarf the 1% or 2% levels from the 1970s (levels are now at 20-90% THC), and that there is zero quality, content, or dosage control in their products. They are also counting on you not knowing that there are already three FDA-approved THC drugs, and at least five more on the way. The dirty little secret they hide from you is that you don’t have to smoke marijuana, eat it in a brownie, or chew it in a marijuana-laced gummy bear to reap the medicinal benefits of THC. A doctor can write you a prescription for those drugs. They can’t write one for marijuana, because it is not a medicine The three FDA-approved drugs are Marinol, Cesamet, and Syndros. Drugs like Syndros show great promise for countering today’s dangerous “medical marijuana” movement. The companies that sell those FDA-approved drugs do, and should have access to the federal banking system. But those who peddle pot, with sky-high genetically manipulated THC levels that have no medical benefit, shouldn’t. |
stimson, blog, Safe Banking, Vaping, HR 1595, SB 1200, medicine | |
Florida Department of Health reports first death from vaping-related illness 09/25/2019 |
According to the department's statistics , there's been 27 reported cases of lung injury connected to vaping in Florida in 2019 and one death. |
Vaping, Florida | |
The Mysterious Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’ 09/22/2019 |
But vaping has its own problems: Nicotine or THC, the high-inducing chemical in marijuana, is mixed with solvents that dissolve and deliver the drugs. The solvents, or oils, heat up during aerosolization to become vapor. But some oil droplets may be left over as the liquid cools back down, and inhaling those drops may cause breathing problems and lung inflammation. |
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Symptoms of Lung Injury Reported by Some Patients in This Outbreak 09/20/2019 |
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Vaping | |
JUULING: Get the Facts 09/20/2019 |
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Hacking the Juul- opening the pods to reload marijuana. very potent.
Healthy Kids Link- Spanish version
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Vaping, Juul, Healthy Children | |
09/20/2019 |
![]() Vaping Pens... Honeycomb - the "Pass Out Pen"
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Vaping | |
Servicemembers are warned to lay off vaping amid reports of lung illnesses linked to e-cigarettes 09/19/2019 |
Servicemembers are being told to avoid vaping after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the habit may be linked to hundreds of cases of severe lung disease, and at least six deaths, in dozens of states. |
Vaping, Veterans, Stars and Stripes | |
The risk of contaminants and false labeling in the exploding CBD industry 09/19/2019 |
The ABC7 I-Team has been given exclusive access to the largest set of test results and analysis on CBD products to date. Those tests reveal not only potential dangers, but also patently false claims plaguing the industry. |
warning, labeling, CBD | |
Interactive effects of PTSD and substance use on suicidal ideation and behavior in military personnel 09/18/2019 |
At high, but not low levels of PTSD symptoms, more days using marijuana predicted increased PTSD symptoms over time and the likelihood of suicidal behavior. |
PTSD, suicide, Military | |
American Lung Association Offers Hope and Help to the Youth Vaping Epidemic 09/18/2019 |
Teens who previously seemed impervious to smoking traditional cigarettes are now vaping at such a significant rate that the Surgeon General and FDA has declared youth use of e-cigarettes an epidemic. |
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Vaping Crisis- SAM 09/18/2019 |
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Vaping, SAM | |
FDA Sample Collection Criteria and Information for Vaping Related Incidents 09/13/2019 |
The FCC (Forensic Chemistry Center) is currently prioritizing samples that are most likely to enhance our understanding of this outbreak, i.e., vaping samples that are associated with cases of patient lung injury. If you have identified product samples with direct-association to case-illnesses in your state as part of your ongoing investigations, please reach out your local FDA District Emergency Response Coordinator or write to FDAVapingSampleInquiries@fda.hhs.gov for follow-up, collection, and shipment of samples to FCC through the utilization of FDA field staff. |
Vaping, FDA, FCC | |
Reducing the risks of distortion in cannabis research 09/08/2019 |
But the lives of vulnerable people may be put at risk when science is distorted for corporate or ideological ends. As noted, several USstates responded to the much-hypedoriginal study of cannabis and opioid overdosesby authorizing the use of medical cannabis to treat heroin-addicted individuals. Advice that opioid users should use medical cannabis toreplace opioid agonist therapies (e.g., methadone, buprenorphine) poses significant risk because abrupt cessation of these medications dramatically increases the risks of an overdose death if users return to opioid use |
Research, Medical, risks, opioid | |
U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain 08/29/2019 |
Marijuana, or cannabis, is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States. It acts by binding to cannabinoid receptors in the brain to produce a variety of effects, including euphoria, intoxication, and memory and motor impairments. These same cannabinoid receptors are also critical for brain development. They are part of the endocannabinoid system, which impacts the formation of brain circuits important for decision making, mood and responding to stress. |
surgeon General | |
Defecation nation 08/27/2019 |
America is getting pooped, thanks to trend-setting California. There is no getting around the fact that the Golden State is at the forefront of a defecation crisis which is already overflowing into neighboring states. The Left Coast has become the home of the homeless, the nation’s lost souls who apparently have settled for simply existing rather than really living. Sleeping out in the open spaces and pooping in public places are jarring signs that a segment of society has given up. The demoralizing, downward spiral is likely to accelerate unless Americans resolve to clean up their act. |
Defecation, feces | |
Teens who use concentrated marijuana more likely to use other drugs 08/26/2019 |
In the study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, researchers surveyed almost 50,000 adolescents in Arizona. The researchers found that among teens who used any form of cannabis, 72 percent had experience with the more potent products. Overall, the researchers found that 33 percent of the teens had tried some form of pot and 24 percent said they had used concentrated forms. The likelihood of a student using cannabis rose with age: 20 percent of the eighth graders said they’d used the drug, compared to 35 percent of the 10th graders and 46 percent of the 12th graders.
Similarly, 15 percent of the eighth graders, 25 percent of the 10th graders and 33 percent of 12th graders said they had used cannabis concentrates. Concentrate users had the highest rates of having tried other drugs.
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consentrates, Teens, adolescent, Vaping | |
Colorado Crime Stats 08/19/2019 |
Colorado | ||
The link between pot and mass shootings may be closer than we think 08/15/2019 |
Just last year, the Parents Opposed to Pot lobby group tried to sound the alarm on the link between marijuana and mass shootings, compiling a list of mass killers it claims were heavy users of marijuana from a young age, from Aurora, Colo., shooter James Holmes and Tucson, Ariz., shooter Jared Loughner to Chattanooga, Tenn., shooter Mohammad Abdulazeez. |
guns, mental health, violence | |
MARIJUANA IS THE COMMON WEB BETWEEN SO MANY MASS KILLERS 08/15/2019 |
guns, violence, mass killings | ||
Autopsy confirms Sutherland Springs church gunman died by suicide 08/15/2019 |
Toxicologist Peter Stout, CEO and president of the Houston Forensic Science Center, said the toxicology report showed low levels of anti-anxiety drugs and marijuana in Kelley's system. |
guns, mass killings, violence | |
Association Between Electronic Cigarette Use and Marijuana Use Among Adolescents and Young Adults 08/12/2019 |
Conclusions and Relevance This meta-analysis found a significant increase in the odds of past or current and subsequent marijuana use in adolescents and young adults who used e-cigarettes. These findings highlight the importance of addressing the rapid increases in e-cigarette use among youths as a means to help limit marijuana use in this population. |
meta-analysis | |
2019 8 Marijuana Legalization Update 08/08/2019 |
powerpoint, legalization | ||
Surgeon general: Marijuana during pregnancy and adolescence is dangerous 08/07/2019 |
“No amount of marijuana use during pregnancy or adolescence is safe,” said Surgeon General Jerome Adams at a press conference. |
Pregnancy | |
If you smoke pot, your anesthesiologist needs to know 08/01/2019 |
Their observations and initial research show that marijuana use may affect patients’ responses to anesthesia on the operating table — and, depending on the patient’s history of using the drug, either help or hinder their symptoms afterward in the recovery room. |
anesthesia, respiratory, Doctors | |
Medical and non-medical cannabis use and risk of prescription opioid use disorder: Findings from propensity score matching. 08/01/2019 |
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: |
opioid | |
Associations between driving under the influence or riding with an impaired driver and future substance use among adolescents. 08/01/2019 |
Conclusions: RWID and DUI are significantly associated with greater alcohol and marijuanause over time. This study highlights that teens may be at higher risk for problem substance use in the future even if they ride with someone who is impaired. Prevention and intervention efforts for adolescents need to address both driving under the influence and riding with an impaired driver to prevent downstream consequences. |
drugged driving | |
Moving beyond perceived riskiness: Marijuana-related beliefs and marijuana use in adolescents. 08/01/2019 |
Conclusions: Marijuana use varied in association with beliefs about its beneficial and harmful health properties. Clinical interventions that target specific marijuana-related health beliefs including unfounded claims of benefit may provide robust talking points for centering provider guidance and public health messaging. |
youth, perception | |
FDA Warning Letter Curaleaf 07/29/2019 |
FDA has determined that your “CBD Lotion,” “CBD Pain-Relief Patch,” “CBD Tincture,” and “CBD Disposable Vape Pen” products are unapproved new drugs sold in violation of sections 505(a) and 301(d) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act), 21 U.S.C. 355(a) and 331(d). Furthermore, these products are misbranded drugs under section 502(f)(1) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 352(f)(1). FDA has also determined that your “Bido CBD for Pets” products are unapproved new animal drugs that are unsafe under section 512(a) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 360b(a), and adulterated under section 501(a)(5) of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. 351(a)(5) |
FDA, Curaleaf | |
FDA warns company marketing unapproved cannabidiol products with unsubstantiated claims to treat cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, op 07/29/2019 |
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it has issued a warning letter to Curaleaf Inc., of Wakefield, Massachusetts, for illegally selling unapproved products containing cannabidiol (CBD) online with unsubstantiated claims that the products treat cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, opioid withdrawal, pain and pet anxiety, among other conditions or diseases. |
FDA, Curaleaf | |
Legalized Cannabis in Colorado Emergency Departments: A Cautionary Review of Negative Health and Safety Effects 07/24/2019 |
ED and urgent care (UC) visits with cannabis-associated International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes or positive urine drug screens for teenagers and young adults have increased since legalization, and the majority require behavioral health evaluation. A subsequent retrospective review by Wang et al. from 2005–2015 identified 4202 such visits for patients 13 to <21 years old to a tertiary-care children’s hospital system. Behavioral health evaluation was obtained for 2813 (67%) and a psychiatric diagnosis was made for the majority (71%) of the visits. |
Colorado, ncbi, suicide | |
Texas leaders: Hemp law did not decriminalize marijuana 07/19/2019 |
Texas, hemp | ||
Should we legalise cannabis? 07/17/2019 |
Cannabis is known to induce DNA damage by several mechanisms including damage to chromosomes at the time of cell division, dramatic reductions in histone formation which form the core of the nucleosomes around which DNA is twined and are crucially involved in signalling to the transcription and epigenetic machinery to regulate gene expression, alteration of DNA methylation and many other processes 2-6. And genotoxic stress of many types is known to trigger DNA checkpoints and interfere with the normal process of meiotic and mitotic cell division; and are also known to trigger ageing and cellular senescence pathways. |
BMJ, genetics, Volkow | |
American Epilepsy Society (AES): Written Comments to Norman E. “Ned” Sharpless, MD, Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs, U.S. 07/16/2019 |
The AES believes that these compounds need to be under the full regulatory control of the FDA and that distribution should be limited to the well-developed legend drug process. While drug regulation is desired, in the interim, the following equally important steps should be taken to assure continuous and safe access to CBD products for patients who are currently benefiting from them. |
american epiliepsy society, FDA, SAGE Journals | |
America’s Invisible Pot Addicts 07/08/2019 |
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Sabet | |
The grass isn't always greener 06/25/2019 |
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Car insurance premiums could rise as a result of legalized marijuana, experts say 06/24/2019 |
In the four states that were among the first to legalize pot – Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington – crashes were up by as much as 6% compared with neighboring states without legalized recreational weed, according to analysis of collision loss data from January 2012 through October 2017 by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and an October 2018 report done by the Highway Loss Data Institute. |
insurance, driving | |
Marijuana Use by U.S. Teens Has Jumped 10-fold Since 1990s 06/23/2019 |
The study looked at 1991-2017 U.S. federal health data on more than 200,000 high school students. It found that the number who said they'd used pot at least once over the past month rose 10-fold -- from 0.6% in 1991 to 6.3% by 2017. |
high school, Teens | |
New AAA Foundation research shows an estimated 14.8 million Americans report driving within one hour after using marijuana in th 06/23/2019 |
An alarming finding shows that an estimated 14.8 million drivers report getting behind the wheel within one hour after using marijuana in the past 30 days. The impairing effects of marijuana are usually experienced within the first one to four hours after using the drug.1 And marijuana users who drive high are up to twice as likely to be involved in a crash.2 |
AAA, driving, driving drugged | |
Educating Physicians About Marijuana 06/16/2019 |
In 2016 surveys, just 9% of medical schools had documented content on medical marijuana in the Association of American Medical Colleges Curriculum Inventory, and 85% of 258 surveyed residents and fellows reported having no education about medical marijuana in medical school or residency. Presented at a 2017 meeting, a single-site study of 51 resident physicians found that 76% did not know which category marijuana belonged to under the Controlled Substances Act (marijuana is currently categorized as a Schedule I drug, signifying a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical uses), and 38% believed that medical marijuana was a prescription drug approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Other studies indicate that practicing physicians often have limited knowledge about marijuana’s health effects and want more training.” |
JAMA, Doctors | |
Vaping is ruining student athletes: ’It’s heartbreaking,’ Massachusetts parents, school officials say 06/16/2019 |
Then he started asking them, “do youJUUL?" and their answers changed.
“I wasn’t even asking the right questions, and I think a lot of clinicians still don’t ask the right questions,” Winickoff said. “Once I found out that kids were using, many of them thought that what they were using was not a big deal, that maybe they could stop any time they wanted. Some of them thought that vaping was just water vapor plus some flavor.” |
Vaping, paraphernalia, high school | |
Beer vs. Pot: Why Catholics Should Oppose Legalization of Marijuana 06/12/2019 |
Alcohol is rapidly expelled from the system and is addictive only in large doses — at least to those … whose genetic make-up has been influenced by the millennia of winemaking.” Furthermore, “the effects of cannabis remain for days, and it is both more addictive and more radical, leading not just to temporary alterations of the mind but to permanent or semi-permanent transformations of personality, and in particular to a widely observed loss of moral sense.” It also has many physical effects, such as greater carcinogenic harm than smoking cigarettes. Unlike consuming a foodstuff in moderation, the consumption of cannabis immediately affects the functioning of the brain, an effect compounded over time, especially for adolescents. In fact, marijuana usage can permanently alter the brain, leading to a great risk of psychosis, psychological problems, and lower I.Q. scores. Further, one of the most frightening discoveries shows that consuming marijuana alters DNA, creating harmful mutations that will be passed down to children and future generations. |
alcohol | |
The risk of contaminants and false labeling in the exploding CBD industry 05/31/2019 |
"If it's not USDA Organic certified, and it's not full panel lab tested, you have no way of knowing what you're getting," said Cranford, who's been producing CBD long before it was en vogue. "Overseas they use hemp to do cover crops. They use it to purposely suck out the pesticides and heavy metals on soil there so they can plant food crops next," Cranford said. "These crops are being imported into the US and people are making CBD out of it. The really scary part is when you have these contaminants in your plant material, and you make this oil, you're concentrating it." After thousands of tests, 70 percent of products were found "highly contaminated" with heavy metals like lead and arsenic, herbicides like glyphosate (the active ingredient in RoundUp) and a host of other contaminants including pesticides, BPA and toxic mold. Virginia Commonwealth University, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and other medical journals have published studies that reflect similar outcomes to the hundreds of tests done by Ellipse Analytics, citing contamination, false labeling and false claims. |
contaminated | |
Unapproved CBD products may not be as safe as they seem 05/26/2019 |
Many producers of products containing CBD are making unfounded medical claims regarding their products’ ability to cure or alleviate many diseases and conditions. |
CBD, Doctors, Finn |