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Why You Need to Talk About Cannabis With Patients

Ann Thomas, MD, MPH February 12, 2025 10223 A few years ago, UCLA Health began asking patients if they used cannabis as part of an electronic previsit questionnaire completed before well visits. The question is still an unusual ask for most primary care clinicians, said Lillian Gelberg, MD, a professor of family medicine at the...

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Largest study ever done on cannabis and brain function finds impact on working memory

The study looked at the effect of cannabis use on young adults who are recent or heavy usersPeer-Reviewed Publication University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus FacebookXLinkedInWeChatBlueskyMessageWhatsAppEmail image:  Dr. Gowin looking at brain scans in his office.view more  Credit: CU Anschutz Medical Campus A new study published today in JAMA Network Open explores the effects of both recent and...

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Cannabis disrupts brain activity in young adults prone to psychosis

by McGill University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Young adults at risk of psychosis show reduced brain connectivity, a deficit that cannabis use appears to worsen, a new study has found. The breakthrough paves the way for psychosis treatments targeting symptoms that current medications miss. In the first-of-its-kind study, McGill University researchers detected a marked decrease in...

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Research claims cannabis use can cause chromosomal damage, increasing cancer risk and harming offspring

by Society for the Study of Addiction Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cannabis use causes cellular damage that increases the risk of highly cancerous tumors, according to a paper published in Addiction Biology. The paper describes cannabis as a “genotoxic” substance because it damages a cell’s genetic information, which can lead to DNA mutations, accelerated aging, and cancer. ADVERTISING...

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Clinical trial shows synthetic cannabis reduces agitation in Alzheimer’s disease

News Release 2-Oct-2024 Synthetic THC (dronabinol) was well tolerated by patients without adverse effects often seen from current Alzheimer’s agitation medications Reports and ProceedingsJohns Hopkins Medicine In a study led by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, researchers show that a pill form of the drug dronabinol, an...

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CANNABIS USE TIED TO GREATER RISK OF SEVERE COVID

JUNE 24TH, 2024 POSTED BY TAMARA SCHNEIDER-WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS A new study links cannabis use to an increased risk of serious illness for people with COVID-19. As COVID-19 started spreading in late 2019, scientists rushed to answer a critical question: Who is most at risk? They quickly recognized that a handful of characteristics—including...

Huge Study Reveals How Often Cannabis Triggers Psychotic Episodes
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Huge Study Reveals How Often Cannabis Triggers Psychotic Episodes

HEALTH08 June 2024ByCLARE WATSON (Thomas Bjornstad/Unsplash) Cannabis exposure and psychosis have long been linked, even if we’ve struggled to pinpoint why and how often those psychotic episodes occur. A new analysis attempts to provide some clarity through the haze, collating data from numerous studies involving more than 200,000 participants. Where individual studies have suggested that...

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High-Potency Cannabis Tied to Impaired Brain Development, Psychosis, CUD

Megan Brooks May 13, 2024 It’s becoming clear that adolescent brain is particularly vulnerable to cannabis, especially today’s higher-potency products, which put teens at risk for impaired brain development; mental health issues, including psychosis; and cannabis use disorder (CUD). That was the message delivered by Yasmin Hurd, PhD, director of the Addiction Institute at Mount...

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Cannabis use during pregnancy linked to increased risk of ADHD, autism and intellectual disability in children

EUROPEAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION A new study presented at the European Psychiatric Association Congress 2024 reveals a significant association between prenatal cannabis use disorder (CUD) and an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and intellectual disability (ID). Cannabis remains by far the most consumed illicit...

Cannabis use linked to increase in heart attack and stroke risk
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Cannabis use linked to increase in heart attack and stroke risk

by American Heart Association Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An analysis of 430,000 adults in the U.S. found that using cannabis, most commonly through smoking, eating, or vaporizing it, was significantly associated with a higher risk of heart attack and stroke, even after controlling for tobacco use (combustible cigarettes and other tobacco products) and other cardiovascular risk...

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