A team of researchers affiliated with the University of California at Irvine and with Pennsylvania State University assessed the relationship between medical cannabis legalization laws and cigarette initiation among adolescents.
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A federal court judge has struck down regulations barring out-of-state companies from operating marijuana dispensaries. At issue was a 2011 rule mandating that licensed medical cannabis retailers must be in-state residents. In her ruling, US District Court Judge Nancy Torres opined that Maine’s medical cannabis industry is not “wholly interstate” – as dispensaries are permitted to sell … Continue reading You do not need to reside in this state to get a commercial marijuana license there
The enactment of adult-use marijuana legalization is not associated with any immediate uptick in the percentage of trauma patients testing positive for past cannabis exposure, according to data published in the Canadian Journal of Surgery. A team of researchers with Western University in London, Ontario evaluated adults admitted into a leading Canadian trauma center in the three months … Continue reading Canada: No uptick in trauma patients testing positive for cannabis after legalization
Cannabis policy liberalization is not associated with individual-level patterns of cigarette use.
Their findings are consistent with those of prior studies similarly concluding that the prevalence of cannabis retailers is not positively associated with increases in either marijuana use or access among younger people.
Despite significant increases in levels of cannabis use in our sample, change in cannabis use did not predict changes in motivation.
State medical marijuana laws and recreational marijuana laws are associated with decreases in teen marijuana consumption
Legal marijuana sales have increased to historic levels in recent months, with sales totaling nearly $6 billion in the first quarter of this year.
The new rules raise the amount of THC permissible in a single serving of an adult-use edible product from 5mg of THC to 10mg.
House Bill 605 permits physicians to recommend cannabis therapy to patients with opioid use disorder. Some studies have shown that the use of cannabis is associated with greater rates of treatment retention in patients with OUD and that cannabinoids may mitigate opioid-related cravings.
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