Sentences with phrase «effects of marijuana use»

However, potential health effects of marijuana use in the general population have not been extensively studied, and little is known about potential effects on kidney function.

This makes it even harder to determine the effects of marijuana use during pregnancy.

But until more studies are done or the long - term effects of marijuana use and breast feeding are known, I say better safe, than sorry.

Unfortunately, little research has been done on the direct effects of marijuana use while breastfeeding.

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This is a mixed bag from a public policy standpoint: Increased marijuana use can have ill effects on the health of the population but the increased sales bring in more revenue for the government.

Generally speaking, the use of marijuana doesn't appear to generate side effects large enough to justify making it entirely illegal, so it's not surprising that economists would be in favor of legalization.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

As a result of this, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) was tasked with educating the public about the health effects associated with retail marijuana use.

Using marijuana and cannabis products when breastfeeding brings concerns that the neurotransmitter effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) can affect the child's nervous system.

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer says he'll introduce a bill taking marijuana off the federal list of controlled substances - in effect decriminalizing its use.

It educates them on the effects of tobacco and marijuana use; opiate addiction; bullying, work zone driving safety, teen dating / sexual violence assaults, and the dangers of texting and driving and drinking and driving.

Educational topics will include the effects of tobacco and marijuana use; opiate addiction; bullying, work zone driving safety, teen dating / sexual violence assaults, and the dangers of texting and driving and drinking and driving.

Haley takes a regimen of drugs but Hilts wants to use marijuana oil because it doesn't have side effects.

The research team cautions that although the findings show an association between sleep and the use of alcohol and marijuana, it is not possible to determine cause from effect without additional research.

But he suggests that the compound likely has negative effects on young, developing brains — and that there is an increased risk of motor vehicle crashes with marijuana, particularly when it's used in combination with alcohol.

The guidance paper, jointly published this month in ACOEM's Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM) and AAOHN's journal Workplace Health & Safety, summarizes current evidence regarding marijuana consumption; discusses possible side effects, including temporary impairment as it relates to the workplace; reviews existing federal and state laws that impact employers; and suggests various strategies available for monitoring marijuana use among employees.

Choo continued, «This adds to a growing body of literature published over the past three years that is remarkably consistent in demonstrating that state medical marijuana policies do not have a downstream effect on adolescent drug use, as we feared they might.»

In the first prospective study of synthetic cannabinoids or SCs — the group of chemicals that mimic the effects of marijuana — researchers have found that symptoms of depression, drinking alcohol, or using marijuana was linked to an increased risk of SC use one year later.

Far fewer studies examined the effects of medical marijuana laws among adults, although existing evidence suggests that adult recreational use may increase after medical marijuana laws are passed

One hazard of using synthetic marijuana was needing more and more to get the same effect, a hallmark of drug dependence.

Psychological effects of using synthetic marijuana can include anxiety, confusion, agitation, irritability, depression and memory issues.

Using juvenile and adolescent mice, Jeffrey Edwards and colleagues investigated the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical in marijuana responsible for its effects on cognition and behavior, on VTA GABA cells, an understudied inhibitory cell type in the reward system that regulates dopamine levels.

The results could advance our understanding of marijuana's effects on the developing brain as the drug's rapidly changing legal status increases its recreational and medical use in the United States.

«Therefore, the effects of medical marijuana use on the developing brain is unknown.»

«The effect of alcohol availability on marijuana use: Evidence from the minimum legal drinking age» by Benjamin Crost and Santiago Guerrero was published in the Journal of Health Economics.

Although men have higher baseline use levels of both alcohol and marijuana, the effect of the minimum legal drinking age is larger for women.

With recent legalization of recreational marijuana in Washington and Colorado — and many more states allowing medicinal use — Craft said there is greater burden on researchers to understand the effects of cannabis and ferret out differences between males and females.

Health effects of acute and chronic marijuana use remain controversial and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not officially approved marijuana as a medicine, nor has it been extensively studied within the general population.

Finally, the groups differed in smoking status, but this is unlikely to account for the group differences because CO levels were used as a covariate in the analysis and there were no differences in the effects of MP between marijuana abusers who smoked cigarettes and those who did not.

We used PET and [11C] raclopride (radioligand that binds to D2 / D3 receptors not occupied by DA) to assess the effects of methylphenidate (MP) on the nondisplaceable binding potential [BPND; ratio of the distribution volume (DV) in striatum to that in cerebellum], which is the most frequent model parameter used to estimate DA changes (27), in 24 healthy controls and 24 marijuana abusers.

«Our research provides some reassuring evidence suggesting that there is no determinantal effect of infrequent, relatively light use of marijuana on kidney function among healthy adults under age 60,» commented lead investigator Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing preventive cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

«We need to better understand the risks of marijuana use, particularly its effects on brain health, to inform decision making by teenagers and adults as well as policymakers.»

But it remains unclear whether there are long - term effects from low - intensity or occasional marijuana use earlier in life and whether the magnitude and persistence of impairment depends on the duration of marijuana use or the age of exposure.

Other research interests include elucidating the effects of persistent alcohol and marijuana use on brain metabolite levels and structural maturation patterns that contribute towards suboptimal cognitive processing and maintaining drug dependence behaviors.

Still, there is some controversy around the use of CBD for a variety of health conditions, even though it doesn't have the same psychoactive effect that people feel from using marijuana recreationally.

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NHTSA also released the results of a study conducted in conjunction with the State of Washington's Traffic Safety Commission of the effect of Washington's recent legalization of recreational use of marijuana on the prevalence of marijuana - positive drivers in Washington State, before and after retail sale of marijuana went into effect.

A state bill that would set broad regulations for the burgeoning medical marijuana industry would likely have the unintended side effect of forcing all dispensaries in Boulder to use 100 percent wind or solar energy.

Many of my clients who are also caregivers drive their patients to the doctor because a lot of these people that are using marijuana are either opiate - sensitive or have issues with taking medication other than marijuana because there are practically no negative side effects to marijuana.

While it may be tempting to stigmatize the use of medical marijuana or make assumptions about an employee's abilities, employers should approach an employee's use of medical marijuana in the same way as the use of any medically - prescribed drug with intoxicating effects.

If an employer has a workplace policy that restricts or prohibits the use of medicinal marijuana this could in effect be grounds for discrimination under human rights law.

This is on par with the effects of sleep deprivation, and much worse than using marijuana.

But because federal regulations make it difficult to study the medical effects of marijuana, it's difficult for anyone to say how long - term recreational marijuana use affects your health.

The effects of marijuana, barbiturates, inhalants, hallucinogens, and several other categories of drugs are all explained in detail, along with the short and long term results of using these substances.

It is unclear if the association is causal or rather if substance abuse is secondary to another factor, such as depression or hopelessness.9 In the present study, alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use remained significant even when the effects of other factors, including a measure of emotional health, were taken into account.

Although hypothesized, no effects of intervention were observed for the lifetime prevalence of use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, or other illicit drugs at age 18 years.

HIV Prevention in the Family Court (funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse) Project RAP is testing the effect of a family - based HIV prevention intervention on reducing marijuana use and increasing safer sex behaviors among substance abusing juvenile offenders.

9 The effects on two of the three outcomes — number of different types of illicit substances used, and frequency of marijuana use — remained statistically significant at the 0.05 level after applying the Benjamini - Hochberg adjustment for multiple comparisons.

Abstract: This study examined the moderating effect of big - five based personality types on the relation between sensation seeking and three adolescent marijuana use outcomes (lifetime use, current use, attraction to marijuana use).

Although the proposed interaction was not supported for probability of marijuana use, or for frequency of marijuana use or quantity x frequency of alcohol use, there was evidence for protective first - order effects of internalizing symptoms on these outcomes.