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Study: Adult-Use Legalization Associated with Decline in Youth Treatment Admissions

NORML

The enactment of adult-use cannabis legalization laws is not associated with an increase in marijuana-related youth drug treatment admissions, according to data published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Additional information is available from the NORML fact-sheet , ‘Marijuana Regulation and Teen Use Rates.”

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Significant Decrease in Mental Health Treatment Seen in States With Legal Cannabis

Veriheal

States legalizing recreational cannabis are seeing an unexpected and significant decrease in mental health treatment admissions. Ortega’s research meticulously analyzed data from ten states where adult-use cannabis has become legal. This downward trend did not apply to a specific demographic.

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Published data on cannabis treatment to reduce opioid usage

Healer

The objective of this study was to determine how the use of medical cannabis affects prescribed opioid usage in chronic pain patients. Healer conducted an online convenience sample survey of patients from three medical cannabis practice sites who had reported using opioids. Peer Reviewed Medical Study . Read full published study.

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Data Analysis Yields Insights Into Medical Cannabis Use, Efficacy

Cannabis Law Report

Just about any industry benefits greatly from the proper use and evaluation of data. The tech giants of today are built mostly on data regarding their users, and advertisers rely on that data to more effectively target their efforts. How to Use the Data. Men were more likely than women to treat pain with cannabis.

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Massachusetts: The Cannabis Control Commission’s Open Data Platform has moved

Cannabis Law Report

Starting this week, the Cannabis Control Commission (Commission)’s Open Data Platform composed of application and license, agent registration and ownership, and sales and product distribution information is now available on their main website at. MassCannabisControl.com/open- data. View the Open Data Platform.

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Is Irradiation Treatment on Cannabis Too Good to be True?

Medicinal Genomics

Our first thought was that DNA from the dead microbes was still present on the sample after the irradiation treatment. So our working theory became that irradiation treatments don’t actually kill microbes or otherwise disrupt the cell membrane enough to liberate the DNA from the microbial cells. Research by Hieke et al. Stay tuned.

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UNM Study Praises Cannabis as Potential Treatment for Fatigue

Veriheal

Cannabis, a plant wrongly accused of causing laziness and tiredness in consumers, could actually offer fatigue-fighting benefits. This is according to a group of researchers from the University of New Mexico (UNM) , who recently teamed up with the creators of the Releaf App to investigate the true link between cannabis use and energy levels.