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The surgeon general is right about marijuana and its risks
Paul Armentano’s opinion in The Hill, “What the Surgeon General gets wrong about marijuana,” disputes several facts that Surgeon General VADM Jerome Adams discusses in Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing Brain Armentano asserts the surgeon...
Cannabis-based medicines blocked for routine use in NHS, as watchdogs demand evidence they are safe
Cannabis-based drugs controversially legalised by the government have been blocked by NHS watchdogs because there is insufficient evidence they are safe. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) yesterday called for fast-tracked clinical trials after concluding...
Dopey logic of a legaliser
IN a recent article in the Times, the Economist policy editor Emma Duncan breathlessly recounts her dalliance some 20 years ago with cocaine, concluding that our drug laws are illiberal, illogical, and do more harm than good. Reporting...
research papers
18/12/2014
Then suddenly he went right off the rails: Mothers’ stories of adolescent cannabis use
10/04/2023
Altered brain structural and functional connectivity in cannabis users
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