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Nature – Paper: Associations between lifetime classic psychedelic use and cardiometabolic diseases

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Using data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2005–2014), the present study examined the associations between lifetime classic psychedelic use and two types of cardiometabolic disease: heart disease and diabetes.

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Paper: Racial Capitalism and the African American Experience Entering the Cannabis Industry By Dr. Ayoka Nurse

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Before the civil war, there were more cannabis farms than cotton farms (Green, 2005). Cotton plantation owners promoted cotton products, and society began to look at hemp clothing as inferior (Green, 2005). Data were analyzed based on the central question, and three themes emerged. Purpose of the Study.

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How Good Is Cannabis for Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?

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For patients who don’t respond well to conventional MS methods, cannabis treatment seems like a very reasonable choice. Since so little is known about the exact cause of this condition, and a cure hasn’t been found yet, treatment options are limited but they do exist. What is multiple sclerosis? Scientific research on cannabis and MS.

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Marijuana Use is Rising Faster Among Depressed Individuals

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For the study, reported on by Reuters, researchers examined data collected from a total of almost 729,000 people aged 12 years and older between 2005 and 2017, including any prior-month cannabis use and any depression experienced over the previous year. “In 2005, about 10.2% “In 2005, about 10.2%

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Study: Recent Cannabis Consumption is Connected to Fluctuations in Sleep Duration

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Each respondent’s feedback was delivered as part of the biennial National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) covering the years 2005 to 2018. . Prior to the study’s execution, the researchers sought to understand if cannabis consumption impacts nightly sleep duration in a nationally representative sample of U.S.

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Marijuana and HIV: Much More Than Palliative Aid

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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). How classical pharmaceuticals fight HIV. They also reported an overall increase in pleasure. (

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Understanding the American Heart Association’s Statement on Marijuana

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for women) in states that legalized medical cannabis programs, and a possible relationship between cannabis use and atrial fibrillation, while also noting that data and statistical adjustment from this and similar studies may have failed to take into account concomitant use of tobacco or other drugs. for men, 1.3% Find Out if You Qualify.

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