In a sample of 103 mother-child pairs from Colorado, about 15% of pregnant women tested positive for detectable levels of any type of cannabinoid at around 27 weeks gestation, Brianna F. Moore’s group took a subsample of participants from the Healthy Start cohort study. The researchers tested for 12 types of cannabinoids and cannabinoid-metabolites in […]
“We need to make a shift in the way we approach chronic pain and really limit the use of opioids to people with acute pain and post-surgical pain,” he added, explaining that cannabis works as an alternative over the long term because it has low rates of side effects and addiction. Of 71 patients surveyed, […]
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That frequency was higher for both inhalers and patients who ingested cannabis at the end of the study period than the start, with the rate for ingesting patients steadily increasing over the 24 months studied. “We’ve got to keep educating patients on the risks of cannabis use” even in the ED, Leach stressed. Study limitations […]
Epidemiological and lab research eventually settled on vitamin E acetate, a common component of illicit cannabis vaping products, as the likely cause, even though a substantial minority of victims denied use of such products. An open question, not addressed in Palamar’s study, is the extent to which school closures and social restrictions resulting from the […]
Among those with doctors, 33% did not inform them, 28% reported their doctor was neutral on their use, 32% reported their doctor was supportive, and 8% reported their doctor was not supportive. In the current study, while medical users reported using cannabis more frequently, with 40% using it roughly 4 to 7 days per week, […]
Most clinical trials with medical cannabis have involved neuropathic pain, Eisenberg noted, and experts don’t agree on whether there’s enough evidence to support cannabis as pain treatment. About 10% of medicinal cannabis users experience adverse events that include psychotomimetic effects, anxiety and psychosis, cognitive dysmotivational syndrome, or addiction, Eisenberg said. More recently, a simulator study […]