«Our data show that
daily cannabis users had no greater risk than non-users (control group) to experience serious adverse events,» Dr. Ware who is also a researcher from the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience Program at the RI - MUHC.
«Cigarette smokers are 10 times more likely to be daily marijuana users: Strongest relationship between cigarette smoking and
daily cannabis use is among 12 to 17 year olds, who are 50 times more likely to be
daily cannabis users than non-smokers.»
«It is conceivable that this stunted decline in cigarette use is owing, in part, to the substantial increase in
daily cannabis use among smokers,» observed Goodwin.
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).
The researchers analyzed data from 725,010 individuals ages 12 and older in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health for 2002 to 2014 to determine differences in the prevalence of
daily cannabis use.
However, cigarette smokers aged 12 to 17 were 50 times more likely to be
daily cannabis users than youth who do not use cigarettes.
In contrast, less than 1 percent of youth who did not use cigarettes reported
daily cannabis use.
«While we found that
daily cannabis use and cigarette smoking were strongly linked among all subgroups, the most finding striking disparity in
daily cannabis use was among youths aged 12 to 17 years,» said Renee Goodwin, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, and principal investigator.
The increase in
daily cannabis use was faster among non-daily cigarette smokers relative to daily cigarette smokers.
Daily cannabis use increased most rapidly among former cigarette smokers (2.80 percent in 2014 versus 0.98 percent in 2002).
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Green Rush
Daily will continue to operate independently from its New York City location, focusing on
cannabis business and finance topics.
His ambition is to make Sundial the «Absolut Vodka or Coca - Cola equivalent of
cannabis,» he told Marijuana Business
Daily, while estimating that «the profit pool for
cannabis could be «as big as the entire alcohol industry in three to five years.»
High Times Holding Corporation, publisher of the
cannabis - focused magazine High Times, announced Thursday the closing of its acquisition of Green Rush
Daily in a deal valued around $ 7 million.
Cannabis meets more consumer needs and motivations in the way that it's consumed,» Torsten Kuenzlen told Marijuana Business
Daily.
But we all need maintenance, and as athletes show us how they use
cannabis to get by in their
daily lives, their message is that we can, too.
Over half the public - including 45 % of
Daily Mail readers - now support the legalisation of
cannabis, new research suggests.
The findings indicate 45 % of mid-market newspaper readers, including
Daily Mail and Express readers, support
cannabis legalisation.
Gordon Brown reportedly reclassified
cannabis as a Class B narcotic in a bid to win favour with
Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre and the reaction of tabloids has been a dominant force in the minds of politicians when they refrain from having the debate over drug policy.
The poll demonstrates that even among
Daily Mail readers, almost half support less punitive approaches to
cannabis and a majority back an independent review of all options, which may come as a surprise to the paper's editors.
Funding for
cannabis research is most easily available if a scientist subscribes to the
Daily Mail agenda.
In 2014, 28 percent of
daily cigarette smokers and 13 percent of non-
daily cigarette smokers aged 12 to 17 used
cannabis daily, suggesting that 40 percent of 12 to 17 year olds who smoke cigarettes used
cannabis daily in 2014.
Among female cigarette smokers, 4 percent used
cannabis daily.
It is known that smoking
cannabis daily doubles an individual's risk of developing a psychotic disorder, but it has been difficult to establish who is most vulnerable.
They found that patients with chronic pain who used
cannabis daily for one year, when carefully monitored, did not have an increase in serious adverse events compared to pain patients who did not use
cannabis.
An earlier study by Goodwin and colleagues showed that the use of
cannabis by cigarette smokers had increased dramatically over the past two decades to the point where smokers are more than 5 times as likely as nonsmokers to use marijuana
daily.
Study participants were randomly assigned to either a control group that smoked placebo cigarettes once
daily for 3 days, or an intervention group that smoked
cannabis also once
daily for 3 days.
CBD piqued my interest a few months ago, and it's potent medicinal benefits have landed this
cannabis - derived supplement a spot in my
daily regime.
Wealth
Daily editor Jason Williams just got back from a trip to Vegas, where he was talking about
cannabis investing.
Delusional - like experiences are more common in those with
cannabis dependence disorder, very early - onset alcohol use or dependence disorders, and
daily smokers
Results show that adolescents in SEB / RYC reported higher levels of
daily smoking, weekly alcohol consumption,
cannabis and hard drug use, as well as greater prevalence of individual, family and peer factors.
Real Estate Issues in a Flourishing
Cannabis Market: Q&A with Oregon Broker Zach Stratford, (Marijuana Business
Daily, Feb. 4, 2015)