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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. Findings of the Study The findings from Ortega’s study are nothing short of illuminating.

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Marijuana Legalization Linked to Decline in Youth Drug Treatment Admissions

CannaMD

As marijuana legalization continues to expand across the country, scientists are interested in tracking how legalization influences adolescents. Researchers from Temple University sought to find out how recreational marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado influenced adolescent treatment admissions for 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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PA: Court orders release on medical cannabis data regarding, “how many medical marijuana patients have received approval from a doctor to use cannabis for opioid addiction treatment.”

Cannabis Law Report

A panel of Commonwealth Court judges has ordered the Wolf administration to reveal how many medical marijuana patients have received approval from a doctor to use cannabis for opioid addiction treatment. The newsroom specifically requested aggregate data — information that would not identify individual patients.

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Medical Marijuana: An Alternative Treatment for Depression?

FloridaMarijuana.net

“Two puffs were sufficient to reduce ratings of depression and anxiety, while 10+ puffs produced the perceived reduction in stress,” reads the results section of a recent study on medical marijuana, published by the Journal of Affective Disorders. Medical Marijuana vs. Antidepressants.

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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.

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