A group of more than 150 physicians, including a former surgeon general and faculty members at some of the nation’s leading medical schools, has formed the first national organization of doctors to call on states and the federal government to legalize and regulate the use of marijuana in the interest of public health. The group — which is announcing its…
Month: August 2018
The existing literature on the long-term effects of marijuana on the brain provides an inconsistent picture due to methodological differences across studies. We overcame these methodological issues by collecting multimodal measures in a large group of chronic marijuana using adults with a wide age range that allows for characterization of changes across lifespan without developmental…
Researchers looking for risk factors of heart disease tested the lung function of 5,115 young adults over the course of 20 years. Tobacco smokers lost lung function over time, but pot users actually showed an increase in lung capacity. It’s possible that the increased lung capacity may be due to taking a deep breaths while…
A new drug derived from marijuana just became the first of its kind to get the green light from the US government. Called Epidiolex, the drug is designed to treat two rare forms of childhood epilepsy using a cannabis compound called cannabidiol (or CBD). British-based GW Pharmaceuticals makes the drug. It does not contain THC, the well-known…
All Natural Health Certifications – Marijuana Doctors There are now over 200,000 patients in the Florida medical marijuana registry with many many more coming. Yet marijuana’s official designation in the US as a Schedule 1 drug— something with “no currently accepted medical use” — means it has been pretty tough to study. Despite that, a growing…