Category: Cannabis

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Most drugs come with their fair share of tall tales. These range from the fearful to the reverent, granting these substances powers that do not align with their actual effects. Cannabis is one drug that has been both understudied and over-mythologized.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DALLAS, Feb. 10, 2022 — Despite the perception that marijuana is harmless, there is some scientific evidence challenging that belief, and there are many unanswered questions about its impact on brain health

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Increasingly, professional athletes in sports ranging from football to bicycling to long-distance running have turned to using cannabis to reduce pain from post-game injuries and to help speed recovery.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Not only is your packaging the first impression consumers have of your product, but it is also the emblem that safely guards your product for sale or delivery.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A study published in the scientific journal Addiction provides the most comprehensive evidence to date of the association between recreational cannabis laws (RCLs) in US states and responses….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A comprehensive analysis of 80 scientific studies has identified a ‘window of impairment’ of between three and 10 hours caused by moderate to high doses of the intoxicating component of cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A study carried out by the University of Granada indicates that smoking cannabis significantly alters key visual functions, such as visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, three-dimensional vision (stereopsis), the ability to focus, and glare sensitivity

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Beer-Sheva, Israel…February 8, 2021 – A new discovery by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and its affiliated Soroka University Medical Center shows that medical cannabis may reduce blood pressure in older adults.

(HealthNewsDigest.com – New research shows that over the past 50 years street cannabis across the world has become substantially stronger carrying an increased risk of harm.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The daily administration of plant-derived, THC-rich cannabis oil is effective and well-tolerated among patients with fibromyalgia, according to clinical trial data published in the journal Pain Medicine.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – With growing interest in its potential health benefits and new legislation favoring legalization in more states, cannabis use is becoming more common among older adults.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – While cannabis use during pregnancy is on the rise, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found evidence that the resulting children are more likely to have psychopathology in middle childhood.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – To better understand the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on cannabis and CBD use, the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative has launched the Cannabis, CBD and COVID Survey.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Toronto – July 9, 2020) – Medical cannabis is finally being put under the microscope, in a first-of-its-kind real world evidence study led by Dr. Hance Clarke, Director of Pain Services, Toronto General Hospital….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. — One would think that cannabis enthusiasts attending a marijuana advocacy event would be knowledgeable about cannabinoids.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. — Researchers quizzed cannabis enthusiasts at a marijuana advocacy event about their beliefs on whether the drug is effective in treating certain medical conditions.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) recently solved a major gap in scientific literature by using mobile software technology to measure the real-time effects of actual cannabis-based products used by millions of people every day.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Pittsburgh, PA: A growing percentage of colleges of pharmacy are instituting medical cannabis training as part of their curriculum, according to survey data published in the journal Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning.