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This article originally appeared at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/well/mind/weed-addiction.html By Dana G. Smith Smoking weed had always been a social activity for Julian. He first tried cannabis in high school, and as an adult he would smoke a couple of times a month with friends. But things changed after he moved to a new city where he didn’t…

This article originally appeared at https://yle.fi/a/74-20027123 For the first time in the survey’s 30-year history, more people said they think that using cannabis regularly is not as risky as weekly binge drinking. The survey also found 29 percent of respondents saying they would be prepared to decriminalise all drug use, which is nine percentage points…

This article originally appeared at https://time.com/6273768/anutin-charnvirakul-interview-cannabis/ Until last summer, Thailand had some of the world’s harshest drug laws, with possession of cannabis then punishable by up to 15 years in prison. But on June 9, marijuana was decriminalized and a resurgent cannabis culture has seen dispensaries popping up across the Southeast Asian nation of 70…

This article originally appeared at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460323001351?via%253Dihub Highlights Preferring high potency cannabis was associated with risk of cannabis dependence.Further triangulation with THC concentration did not support these results. Evidence for an association between high potency cannabis use and other mental health symptoms is mixed. Improved methodology is needed to assess cannabis use in research. Abstract Cannabis…

This article originally appeared at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pcn.13555 Authors: Lucy A Chester  1 , Lucia R Valmaggia  2 , Matthew J Kempton  1 , Edward Chesney  1 , Dominic Oliver  1   3 , Emily P Hedges  1   4 , Elise Klatsa  1 , Daniel Stahl  5 , Mark van der Gaag  6   7 , Lieuwe de Haan  8   9 , Barnaby Nelson  10…

This article originally appeared at https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/15/isle-of-man-grow-cannabis-business-diversify-economy The Isle of Man has for decades been dominated by offshore financial services, but now its government is planning a push for a new kind of economic growth: medicinal cannabis. The British crown dependency is hoping to license as many as 10 firms by the end of 2025 to…

This article originally appeared at https://volteface.me/drug-use-is-not-the-same-as-addiction/ Conflating drug use with addiction causes a wide variety of issues. Years of fear-mongering and moralizing regarding drug use, particularly in the US but also across the Atlantic in the UK and Europe, have given the general public a skewed view of many drugs. Medical benefits of substances are…

This article originally appeared at https://reason.com/2023/03/07/studies-link-marijuana-legalization-to-all-sorts-of-positive-public-health-outcomes/ Legalization linked to fewer suicides, traffic fatalities, and opioid deaths. A new paper on the public health effects of legalizing marijuana finds “little credible evidence to suggest that [medical marijuana] legalization promotes marijuana use among teenagers” and “convincing evidence that young adults consume less alcohol when medical marijuana is…

This article originally appeared at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39462-1 Abstract Federal barriers and logistical challenges have hindered measurement of the real time effects from the types of cannabis products used medically by millions of patients in vivo. Between 06/06/2016 and 03/05/2018, 3,341 people completed 19,910 self- administrated cannabis sessions using the mobile device software, ReleafApp to record: type…

This article originally appeared at https://merryjane.com/culture/patrick-stewart-uses-cannabis-daily A new Oxford University study will spend millions of pounds to examine the benefits of the cannabis plant. To sway public opinion about the controversial allocation of funds, England’s most prestigious school got a high profile cosign from a very important British Knight – Sir Patrick Stewart. “This is…