Sentences with phrase «cannabis use»

The studies compared illicit drug use in the past year and rates of cannabis use disorder between states with and without medical marijuana laws.

Many heroin and cocaine users began their drug dependency with cannabis use in their teens.

Parental transmission of risk for cannabis use disorders to offspring.

The government will set the legal age for cannabis use at 19.

This comprehensive review of research on medical cannabis use and mental health also found some evidence that cannabis may help with symptoms of depression, PTSD and social anxiety.

However, the prospective link between cannabis use and bipolar disorder symptoms has rarely been investigated.

In contrast, less than 1 percent of youth who did not use cigarettes reported daily cannabis use.

Client surveys are to be conducted at baseline and follow - up to determine any changes in cannabis use rates (table 3).

When drug tests were introduced in 1996, the first effect was to reduce cannabis use and increase heroin use.

The simplest explanation is that some drivers are impaired by cannabis use, and these drivers are contributing to fatal crashes.

In the case of heavy cannabis use, these can include anxiety and insomnia.

This correlation is strongest among those who started cannabis use at an early age.

More than 10 per cent of adults and 25 per cent of adolescents report cannabis use over the past year.

According to the report, there was discussion about allowing cannabis use in designated public spaces, such as cannabis lounges, tasting rooms or social clubs.

The fastest rates of increase of cannabis use overall were among those aged 26 years and older versus aged 12 to 17 years and 18 to 25 years.

Despite this, the research was clear that the more high potency cannabis used, the higher the risk of developing mental health problems, even if they are relatively low in number.

As a result, cannabis use often exposes young people to tobacco for the first time, leading them directly to the more harmful problem of tobacco dependence.

The central theme that will be presented in this article is that appropriate cannabis use reduces biological harm caused by biochemical imbalances, particularly those that increase in frequency with age.

We have all kinds of information on parenting and responsible cannabis use as a parent, best of practices.

In order to mitigate harm between the ages of 18 and 25, the task force recommends that governments should do all that they can to discourage and delay cannabis use.

Big gaps in knowledge remain about health effects of cannabis use, for good or ill.

The minimum age for cannabis use will be 19.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This article presents the main outcome findings from two inter-related randomized trials conducted at 4 sites to evaluate the effectiveness of 5 short - term outpatient interventions for adolescents with cannabis use disorders.

Why decriminalization of marijuana and investment by big Canadian names doesn't change our opinion of Canadian Marijuana stocks In the ramp up to this year's legalization of recreational cannabis use in Canada, readers are increasingly interested in related investment opportunities.

«Very little has been known about recovery from cannabis use problems, and this is the first study to examine that on a national basis,» says John Kelly, PhD, director of the Recovery Research Institute, who led the study published in the March issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy.

Claire Mokrysz, PhD student in the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL, and author of a recent longitudinal study on cannabis use outcomes, said:

A Canadian research team led by Dr. Mark Ware from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC) in Montréal has completed a national multicentre study looking at the safety of medical cannabis use among patients suffering from chronic pain.

While aiming to reduce adolescent cannabis use remains an important strategy, it will likely not be enough as many other factors are also linked to future risky behaviours.»

Do pharmacological or psychological interventions improve cannabis use outcomes in people with psychotic or depressive disorders?

Only half of cannabis users in the 2017 Canadian Cannabis Survey thought cannabis use affected driving.

«What is striking about this study is the strength of the relationship between early cannabis use and subsequent tobacco dependence.

Meanwhile, Maine has become the first state to make it illegal for employers to punish workers for cannabis use during their off hours.

The future of international drug control treaties is in doubt because of recent treaty - violating decisions to legalize cannabis use in Canada, the United States and Uruguay.

They also call for a change in the law on libertarian grounds and refute the suggestion that cannabis use leads to harder drugs.

Some longer - term effects associated with cannabis use include impaired memory and concentration, and decreased motivation.

Daily cannabis use increased since 2002 among both nondaily smokers (8 percent in 2014 compared with 3 percent in 2002) and daily smokers (9 percent in 2014 versus 5 percent in 2002).

But, as the Columbia researchers note, as cannabis use balloons across society, it's important to keep tabs on who's using it — and on potential health effects we don't currently know about.

Professor Robin Murray from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's comments on a study published in The Lancet reviewing evidence regarding cannabis use and the risk of psychotic or affective mental health outcomes.

The budget outlines $ 62.5 million over five years beginning this year for public education programs around cannabis use, and a further $ 20 million over five years for research by the Mental Health Commission of Canada and the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction.

«In the meantime, it is clear that a robust system of education, prevention, and treatment is needed to minimize the negative consequences that might arise if cannabis use continues to increase,» they write.

As a Home Office minister calls for medicinal cannabis use to be made legal, we give the inside story on a campaign that may be on the verge of victory

Although it is questionable whether cannabis use always leads to hard drug abuse, drug dealers rarely discriminate between the varieties, and many fear that decriminalisation of cannabis will prop up hard drug dealing and associated organised crime.

The rebuttal of «Cannabis use soared by a quarter» is a simple one.

Lifetime cannabis use rates (total Australian population, Indigenous Australian population, Cape York population)

Led by Dr Steven Marwaha, a clinical academic Psychiatrist, the research analysed data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and found that teenage cannabis use at least 2 - 3 times weekly is directly associated with suffering from symptoms of hypomania in later years.

Previous research at York showed that regulating cannabis use could result in more effective strategies aimed at helping drug users to access the right support and guidance.

Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, chair of psychiatry at CUMC and and former American Psychiatric Association president, noted that this report «demonstrates the convergent risks of adolescence and expanding cannabis use for the development of psychotic disorders, as well as the opportunity for preventive strategies.»

Individuals who report having resolved a problem with cannabis use appear to have done so at younger ages than those who resolved problems with alcohol or other drugs, report investigators from the Recovery Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

Our team, led by Dr Oliver Howes, has previously found that heavy regular cannabis use is associated with a lowering of the brain chemical dopamine.

Predicting later problematic cannabis use from psychopathological symptoms during childhood and adolescence: Results of a 25 - year longitudinal study.