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In states with legal cannabis, teen use triggers concerns

Cannabis Chronicles

With some marijuana products averaging 68 percent THC — exponentially greater than the pot baby boomers once smoked – calls to poison control centers and visits to emergency rooms have risen. Each poses serious risks to adolescents’ physical and mental health. software executive whose son got hooked while in high school.

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Best strains and terpenes for focus and flow state

The Cannigma

The best weed strains to help you focus have a balance of CBD and THC, are energizing and stress-relieving, and have a terpene profile that includes pinene, linalool, or beta-caryophyllene. A flow state is when all of your attention is concentrated on the task at hand, to the point that the world outside flows away.

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Marijuana and HIV: Much More Than Palliative Aid

Greencamp

Drugs used for the treatment of HIV and AIDS are called antiretroviral medications, and there are several different classes of these drugs: Fusion/Entry Inhibitors (they prevent, or more precisely slow down HIV from entering healthy cells). But I haven’t seen any clinical trials looking at the direct effects of THC on the virus.

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Understanding the American Heart Association’s Statement on Marijuana

CannaMD

THC stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the body’s heightened response to danger or threat, while inhibiting the parasympathetic nervous system, which promotes rest and digestion. Furthermore, THC inhibits the enzyme necessary to activate some of the carcinogens found in smoke. CARDIAC AND VASCULAR EFFECTS.

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What are cannabis chemovars and chemotypes?

The Cannigma

Researchers conducting survey based studies today often only have access to the THC concentration of the cannabis that their participants are using. For example, Type 1 cannabis is THC dominant. Type I cannabis is THC dominant, Type II has a roughly 1:1 ratio of THC and CBD, and Type III is CBD dominant.

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Italy: MINISTRY OF HEALTH DECREE – Definition of maximum levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in food

Cannabis Law Report

Definition of maximum levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in food.(20A00016). 1290/2005 and (CE) n. human health related to the presence of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in. drugs and psychotropic substances, prevention, treatment and. variety of plant species with a THC content not higher. 9 -THC and of the.

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Mixing weed and alcohol: the good, the bad and the ugly

The Cannigma

A clinical trial published in 2015 found that the test subjects had “significantly higher blood THC” levels when they used cannabis along with alcohol, and combining the two led to increased performance impairment. A 2010 study found that consuming alcohol “slightly prolonged” the half-life of THC in the blood.