Patients using medical marijuana to control chronic pain reported a 64 percent reduction in their use of more traditional prescription pain medications known as opioids, a University of Michigan study finds. The 185 patients from a medical marijuana dispensary in Ann Arbor also reported fewer side effects from their medications and a 45-percent improvement in […]
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New Study Suggests Marijuana’s Impact On Crash Risk Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Pot prohibitionists frequently warn that legalization will flood the roads with dangerously stoned drivers, leading to a surge in traffic fatalities. So far there is not much evidence of such a surge in Colorado or Washington, where marijuana was legalized in 2012. A new study may help explain why: It looks like marijuana’s impact on […]
Combination Of Medical Marijuana, Opioids Does Not Increase Substance Abuse Risk
With nearly half of the country having already legalized the use of cannabis for medical purposes, physicians prescribing opioids for pain management have another alternative at their disposal. As medical marijuana laws become more relaxed, practitioners now have the option of treating chronic pain patients with prescription opioids, medical cannabis or both. Among many, however, […]
Uruguay’s Legal Weed Market at Risk of Being Snuffed Out
Although Uruguay is on the verge of becoming the first country in the world to establish a nationwide marijuana market, support for the program has been lackluster, with concerns that the upcoming presidential election could put the head of this progressive concept on the… High Times
Legal Marijuana: Are Toddlers at Risk?
Apparently, a growing number of curtain climbers and whippersnappers are finding their way into their parents special cookie jar, as a new study indicates that hospitals are seeing an insurgence of shorty stoners requiring medical attention after a bite of mom’s tas… High Times
Even in 2013, Parents Who Use Marijuana Risk Losing Their Kids
Reason.comBy Mike Riggs On April 23 Lindsey and Josh Rinehart were driving back to Boise, Idaho, after a hiking trip when they got a frantic phone call: Police were searching their house. By the time the Rineharts made it home, their babysitter was a mess, and their two children—along with the children of a friend […]