Studies Showing an Anti-Cancer Effect
This is a mirror of the page at http://safeaccess.ca/research/cancer.htm A Population-Based Case-Control Study of Marijuana Use and Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Caihua Liang,1 Michael D. McClean,3 Carmen Marsit,2 Brock Christensen,1,2 Edward Peters,4 Heather H. Nelson5 and Karl T. Kelsey1,2Cannabinoids, constituents of marijuana smoke, have been recognized to have potential antitumor properties. However, the […]
Research Suggests CBD’s Anxiety Relief Is Due To Neurogenesis
This article originally appeared at https://academic.oup.com/ijnp/article/16/6/1407/754216?login=false The anxiolytic effect of cannabidiol on chronically stressed mice depends on hippocampal neurogenesis: involvement of the endocannabinoid system Alline C. Campos, Zaira Ortega, Javier Palazuelos, Manoela V. Fogaça, Daniele C. Aguiar, Javier Díaz-Alonso, Silvia Ortega-Gutiérrez, Henar Vázquez-Villa, Fabricio A. Moreira, Manuel Guzmán … Show more International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, […]
Comparative risk assessment of alcohol,tobacco, cannabis and other illicit drugs using the margin of exposure approach
This originally appeared at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/pdf/srep08126.pdf A comparative risk assessment of drugs including alcohol and tobacco using the margin of exposure (MOE)approach was conducted. The MOE is defined as ratio between toxicological threshold (benchmark dose)and estimated human intake. Median lethal dose values from animal experiments were used to derive thebenchmark dose. The human intake was calculated […]
Secrets Of The Most Productive Potheads
This article originally appeared at https://www.fastcompany.com/3021612/secrets-of-the-most-productive-pothead-doug-benson Stand-up comedian Doug Benson has released a comedy album every year for the past six years, hosts several podcasts (including The Benson Interruption), tours constantly, and makes films and TV shows. Oh, and he manages to do all of this while completely baked. Fast Company: Are you high right […]
WHO Report Finds No Public Health Risks Or Abuse Potential For CBD
A World Health Organization (WHO) report has found no adverse health outcomes but rather several medical applications for cannabidiol, a.k.a. CBD, despite U.S. federal policy on this cannabinoid chemical. According to a preliminary WHO report published last month, naturally occurring CBD is safe and well tolerated in humans (and animals), and is not associated with any negative public health effects […]
Nearly 19 Years Later, A Mother’s Letter to Her Son About Drugs Still Rings True
Nearly 19 Years Later, A Mother’s Letter to Her Son About Drugs Still Rings True Marsha Rosenbaum, PhD Almost 19 years ago, I was asked by the San Francisco Chronicle to write a letter to my son, Johnny, about drugs. That letter, has now been translated into at least a dozen languages and reached hundreds […]
Men’s Wearhouse founder reveals how smoking marijuana for 50 years changed his life
George Zimmer has a penchant for speaking his mind. The 68-year-old serial entrepreneur was fired from Men’s Wearhouse, the company he founded 40 years earlier, in 2013 over differences with the company’s board. “You know, one of the very small reasons — and I say small — would be that I tended to be kind […]
Study Links Medical Marijuana to Fewer Traffic Fatalities
US Traffic Fatalities, 1985–2014, and Their Relationship to Medical Marijuana Laws Objectives. To determine the association of medical marijuana laws (MMLs) with traffic fatality rates. Methods. Using data from the 1985–2014 Fatality Analysis Reporting System, we examined the association between MMLs and traffic fatalities in multilevel regression models while controlling for contemporaneous secular trends. We […]
CDC: More people are using marijuana, but fewer are abusing it
Marijuana abuse and dependency are becoming less common, even as states roll back restrictions on the use of the drug, according to a new federal report. In 2014, the number of Americans aged 12 and over meeting diagnostic criteria for marijuana abuse or dependency stood at 1.6 percent, a decline from 1.8 percent in 2002, according […]
Founders of Western civilisation were prehistoric potheads
It must have been something in the air. During a short time window at the end of the last ice age, Stone Age humans in Europe and Asia independently began using a new plant: cannabis. That’s the conclusion of a review of cannabis archaeology, which also links an intensification of cannabis use in East Asia […]
