The Marijuana Policy Project promotes their drug as a substitute for opiate pain pills. Like the worst offenders in the opiate industry, the cannabis lobby follows an addiction-for-profit business model. Their master plan needs 80% of the demand to be met by 20% of the… Read More »What is the Evidence for Medical Marijuana to Treat the Addiction Epidemic?
Just as digital transformation has disrupted legacy business models, cannabis legalization will fundamentally challenge workplace policies. On Oct. 17, recreational marijuana will officially become legal in Canada. According to a recent study conducted by Deloitte, 22 per cent of the Canadian adult population consumes recreational… Read More »With cannabis coming to the workplace, what constitutes ‘impairment’?
August 2018 Vaping can damage vital immune system cells and may be more harmful than previously thought, a study suggests. Researchers found e-cigarette vapour disabled important immune cells in the lung and boosted inflammation. The researchers “caution against the widely held opinion that e-cigarettes are… Read More »Vaping ‘can damage vital immune system cells’
Research studies (see Stoové et al, 2009) have long associated surviving a drug overdose with the increased likelihood of a future non-fatal or fatal drug overdose. In a 2017 Massachusetts study of opioid overdoses, 10% of those who survived died within the next year from a drug overdose or… Read More »Life or Death After a Non-Fatal Drug Overdose
Sean Ziemelis, 31, attacked a seven-month-old baby at a flat in Luton last year A court heard he was high on cannabis when he threw the child out a window He also threw the child’s mother out of a window. Both escaped major injury Mr… Read More »Crazed cannabis user, 31, who gouged a seven-month-old boy’s eyes then threw him and his mother out of a window is jailed for life!
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.06.018Get rights and content Abstract Background Medically Supervised Injection Centres (MSICs) are legally-sanctioned facilities where users can consume pre-obtained drugs under medical supervision. Although there is a substantial body of research exploring their effectiveness, there have been few attempts to quantify outcomes across studies. In… Read More »The impact of medically supervised injection centres on drug-related harms: A meta-analysis
Medical research has confirmed that the body’s endocannabinoid system is a finely regulated and highly complex system which is involved in the detailed regulation of essentially all body systems including the brain and cardiovascular systems and stem cell niches. Studies have shown that the rate… Read More »Real Caution Needed: Known Cannabis Teratogenicity Needs to be Carefully Considered
EXCLUSIVE: NAS – neonatal abstinence syndrome – affects babies whose mothers have abused drugs during pregnancy, leaving their babies to go cold turkey after birth. 22:26, 28 JUL 2018 Three babies a day are having treatment for drug addiction after being born hooked on heroin… Read More »Three new born babies A DAY are treated for drug addiction in shocking NHS figures
Lauren M. Jansson, MD1; Chloe J. Jordan, PhD2; Martha L. Velez, MD1 JAMA. Published online July 16, 2018. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.8401 Increasing public attention has recently been paid to the opioid epidemic and attendant effects on prenatally exposed infants and children. 1Current literature has emerged proposing marijuana as a safe alternative to opioids in addressing pain 2 and… Read More »Perinatal Marijuana Use and the Developing Child
We wanted to make sure you had seen four key studies just into play A groundbreaking study in The Lancet found that marijuana use over four years actually made it harder for patients to cope with chronic pain, and did not reduce their use of opioids. A study in Frontiers in Psychiatry found that… Read More »Cannabis, NOT the answer to the Opioid Crisis! Yet again!
