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Risk Factors
May 29, 2024
Adolescent Cannabis Use is Associated with Regional Decreases in Cortical Volume and Greater Decreases in Males than Females
Mona Darvishi of The Ohio State University reported that adolescent cannabis use is associated with regional decreases in cortical volume in 10 of 42 brain regions. -- In two of these regions, the superior frontal gyrus an...
Risk Factors
January 11, 2024
Smoking Pot While Pregnant is a No-No
Mom, Don’t Think Smoking Pot When Pregnant is Harmless for your Child -- In a new article in Science, Jasmine Hurd reports on a large sample of mothers who smoked pot while pregnant. Their offspring were more anxious, hype...
Treatments
January 10, 2024
Cannabis and Cannabinoids Don’t Work for Pain or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Aaron S. Wolfgang, MD and Charles W. Hoge, MD reviewed data on cannabis in JAMA Psychiatry and found that there were big placebo effects and no evidence for effectiveness of cannabis in military personal. -- This negative ...
Risk Factors
August 23, 2023
Cannabis Contributes to 15% of Case of Schizophrenia
A study in Psychological Medicine (May 2, 2023) reported on ” Danish registry data spanning five decades and representing more than 6.9 million people in Denmark to estimate the population-level percentage of schizophrenia...
Treatments
May 15, 2020
Cannabis Withdrawal Syndrome Occurs in Almost Half of Regular Users
Photo by Thought Catalog on Unsplash -- A recent systematic review and meta-analysis by researcher Anees Bahji and colleagues in the open access medical journal JAMA Network Open describes the symptoms and prevalence of ca...
Risk Factors
April 24, 2020
Cannabis Use in Adolescence Linked to Depression and Suicidality in Young Adulthood
Photo by Louis Hansel @shotsoflouis on Unsplash -- In a meta-analysis published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry in 2019, researcher Gabriella Gobbi and colleagues analyzed findings from 11 studies including a total of 23,31...
Biology
April 21, 2020
In Animal Model, Long-Term THC Exposure Interferes with Cortical Control of the Nucleus Accumbens
Cannabis plant. Photo by Esteban Lopez on Unsplash -- In an article in the journal Biological Psychiatry, researchers Eun-Kyung Hwang and Carl R. Lupica reported that in rats, long-term use of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) we...
Public Policy
May 8, 2017
National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Issues Report on the Health Effects of Cannabis
In early 2017, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued its first comprehensive report on cannabis since 1999. Shifting public opinion over the past few decades has led to 28 states and the Distri...