Category: Marijuana Issues

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Rochester NY: Eighty-five percent of Americans believe that marijuana “should be legalized for medical use,” and 57 percent of respondents endorse regulating it for anyone over the age of 21, according to national survey data compiled Harris Insight & Analytics.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Ever since recreational marijuana use was legalized in US states like California, Washington and Colorado, people from all around the world started to be more interested in the effects of marijuana on the human body.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Members of the Canadian Senate yesterday voted 56-30 in favor of Bill C-45 sweeping legislation amending the federal Controlled Drugs and Substances Act so that those over the age of 18 may legally possess, purchase, and grow personal use quantities of cannabis.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Washington, DC: Today, Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and ETC ETC, introduced bipartisan legislation, The Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) Act of 2018, to remove the threat of federal intervention and prosecution in states that regulate marijuana use and sales.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – CHICAGO,  – The American Pain Society (APS) today endorsed compromise legislation in the U.S. Senate amending provisions of the Marijuana Effective Studies Act of 2016….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – While a wide majority of oncologists do not feel informed enough about medical marijuana’s utility to make clinical recommendations….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. — Smoking during pregnancy has well-documented negative effects on birth weight in infants and is linked to several childhood health problems.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Although cannabis, also known as marijuana, has been shown to impair memory, reaction time and attention, it is difficult to assess this impairment in a natural setting.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Can medical marijuana help to fight the opioid epidemic? Many believe that it can.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – ANN ARBOR, MI – Few older adults use medical marijuana, a new national poll finds, but the majority support its use if a doctor recommends it

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON, D.C., — In a new video for Inside Science News Service, executive producer Karin Heineman interviews Robert Dellavalle from the University of Colorado School of Medicine

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – We’re often asked, “What conditions can cannabis (aka “medical marijuana”) be used for?” There are many, but we thought, “Why not ask the patients what condition/s they use cannabis for?”

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – SAN DIEGO (Feb. 16, 2018) — Medical marijuana is legal in more than half of U.S. states. As its presence has increased over the last decade….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Boston, MA: Marijuana use does not negatively impact fertility rates in either men or women, according to data published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – On Jan. 4, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole memo, a 2013 document that limits federal enforcement of marijuana laws.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Alcohol, marijuana, and ecstasy each have very different sexual effects, from attraction and desire to sensitivity to sexual dysfunction

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Montpelier, Vermont: Just hours after US Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded Obama-era guidelines instructing US attorneys to take a ‘hands off’ approach in states with legal marijuana regulations….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – EAST LANSING, Mich. — A chemical found in marijuana, known as tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, has been found to potentially slow the process in which mental decline can occur in up to 50 percent of HIV patients

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New Haven, Conn. — New research by Yale Cancer Center (YCC) researchers shows a majority of pediatric cancer providers endorse the potential use of medical marijuana for children with advanced cancer….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) –  Cannabis use in youth is linked to bipolar symptoms in young adults, finds new research by the University of Warwick.