A more detailed NIDA-funded analysis showed that legally protected medical marijuana dispensaries, not just medical marijuana laws, were also associated with a decrease in the following:4 opioid prescribing self-reports of opioid misuse treatment admissions for opioid addiction

So far, researchers haven't conducted enough large-scale clinical trials that show that the benefits of the marijuana plant (as opposed to its cannabinoid ingredients) outweigh its risks in patients it's meant to treat.

The most common use for medical marijuana in the United States is for pain control. While marijuana isn’t strong enough for severe pain (for example, post-surgical pain or a broken bone), it is quite effective for the chronic pain that plagues millions of Americans, especially as they age. Part of its allure is that it is clearly safer than opiates (it is impossible to overdose on and far less addictive) and it can take the place of NSAIDs such as Advil or Aleve, if people can’t take them due to problems with their kidneys or ulcers or GERD.

Patients do, however, report many benefits of CBD, from relieving insomnia, anxiety, spasticity, and pain to treating potentially life-threatening conditions such as epilepsy. One particular form of childhood epilepsy called Dravet syndrome is almost impossible to control, but responds dramatically to a CBD-dominant strain of marijuana called Charlotte’s Web.

About 85% of Americans support legalizing medical marijuana, and it is estimated that at least several million Americans currently use it.

(onlookers are more likely to intervene if there are few or no other witnesses)

discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation.

Conclusions about marijuana are often formed in the gut rather than the head and heart. The visceral feelings supersede the faithful discernment.

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child of the 1960s, she had once tried her brother’s marijuana cookies, and they left her feeling fuzzy and distracted.

Three years after recreational marijuana legalization, changes in motor vehicle crash fatality rates for Washington and Colorado were not statistically different from those in similar states without recreational marijuana legalization. Future studies over a longer time remain warranted.

Pre–recreational marijuana legalization annual changes in motor vehicle crash fatality rates for Washington and Colorado were similar to those for the control states

An internal or external drive that prompts a person to action The ability to initiate and persist at a task Putting 100% of your time, effort, energy, and focus into your work Being able to work hard in the face of obstacles, boredom, fatigue, stress, and the desire to do other things Motivation means doing everything you can to be as productive as you can.

'Playing video games, using social media, that fulfills the necessity of sensation seeking, their need to seek novel activity,'' Dr. Martins said, but added of the theory: ''It still needs to be proved.''

Use of marijuana is down over the past decade for eighth and 10th graders even as social acceptability is up, the study found. Though marijuana use has risen among 12th graders, the use of cocaine, hallucinogens, ecstasy and crack are all down, too, while LSD use has remained steady.

Are teenagers using drugs less in part because they are constantly stimulated and entertained by their computers and phones?

Women Grow's communications director, said it's important for a new industry to address diversity early - and avoid the battles that Silicon Valley is fighting over minority representation.

"as a catalyst for women to influence and succeed in the cannabis industry as the end of marijuana prohibition occurs on a national scale,

"Prohibition is built on a racist formula," said Rachel Knox, a member of a family of doctors in Portland, Oregon, whose practice focuses on cannabis. "The health-care disparity between blacks and whites is large."

possible exception of limited benefits in treating some diseases under a physician's dir

the ban on marijuana protects citizens from the dangers of drug consumption, as well as potentially destructive behaviors associated with marijuana use.

ncrease tax revenue, generate commerce and support the agricultural economy. 

"Here, you don't have to go to jail if you're a marijuana smoker," says Lecesse. "The goal is to try to keep young people in particular away from the criminal drug environment that may get them involved with the harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin."