Tag Archives: Cannabis

Inflammation levels may shape how cannabis affects anxiety and sleep  PsyPost Source link

Cannabis Poisonings Are Rising, Mostly Among Kids  The New York Times Source link

Why Alcohol, Not Cannabis, Is Fueling Surprise Pregnancies in Young Women  SciTechDaily Sarah Raifman, PhD, MSc, highlights the link between heavy drinking and pregnancy  Contemporary OB/GYN Heavy Drinking Raises Risk for Undesired Pregnancy  Medscape Cannabis or alcohol: which is linked to unplanned pregnancy?  greenstate.com Women who drink heavily face higher chance of unintended pregnancy  News-Medical Source link

More people in the United States now smoke cannabis every day than drink alcohol, with about 17.7 million daily or near daily users recorded in the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. That shift adds urgency to questions about what long term, high frequency use might be doing to the body. Researchers from the University of …

“Cannabis smoke contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds found in tobacco smoke, which have known damaging effects on the epithelial tissue that lines the mouth,” said Raphael Cuomo, Ph.D. associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UC San Diego School of Medicine and member of UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. “These findings add to a growing body …

CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Research suggests that using cannabis may alter a person’s epigenetic code. The research suggested that marijuana use can impact the genetic code responsible for activating and deactivating various genes. The study highlighted the importance of understanding marijuana’s effects on the body, as it remains one of the most widely used drugs globally. While some effects are well-known, …

CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Research suggests that using cannabis may alter a person’s epigenetic code. The research suggested that marijuana use can impact the genetic code responsible for activating and deactivating various genes. The study highlighted the importance of understanding marijuana’s effects on the body, as it remains one of the most widely used drugs globally. While some effects are well-known, …

Academics and colleagues are rallying around a California university professor who was arrested and charged with assaulting a federal officer during a chaotic immigration raid at a cannabis farm that resulted in a worker’s death. John Caravello, a math and philosophy professor at California State University Channel Islands, joined a crowd of protesters who confronted immigration agents when they arrived …

Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests – not in our DNA code itself, but in how that code is expressed. US researchers found it may cause changes in the epigenome, which acts like a set of switches that activate or deactivate genes involved in how our bodies function. “We …