Health and Science

A newly published paper examining the effects of adult-use marijuana legalization on opioid overdose deaths says there’s a “consistent negative relationship” between legalization and fatal overdoses, with more significant effects in states that legalized cannabis earlier in the opioid crisis. Authors of the new analysis, published to the preprint repository Social Science Research Network (SSRN), […]

Science & Health Archives – Marijuana Moment Read More  [[{“value”:” Even as more states have legalized marijuana, rates of teen use are on the decline. There was also a significant drop in perceptions by youth that cannabis is easy to access in 2024 despite the widening adult-use marketplace, according to the latest federally funded national […]

Science & Health Archives – Marijuana Moment Read More  [[{“value”:” As the marijuana legalization movement has expanded—and psychedelics policy has increasingly entered the mainstream conversation—a new survey shows that Americans don’t view cannabis and LSD as harmful as they once did. A new analysis of the National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), conducted […]

Science & Health Archives – Marijuana Moment Read More  [[{“value”:” For the first time ever, researchers are administering LSD to patients in a Phase 3 clinical trial. The new study focuses on whether the psychedelic can be used to effectively treat generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Drugmaker MindMed says that the trial, dubbed Voyage, is eventually […]

Science & Health Archives – Marijuana Moment Read More  [[{“value”:” New government-funded research on terpenes produced by the cannabis plant finds that some of the aromatic compounds could be promising therapeutics to help manage pain from fibromyalgia or during recovery from an operation. The study, published this month in the journal Pharmacological Reports, involved administering […]

Science & Health Archives – Marijuana Moment Read More  [[{“value”:” A new scientific review finds that high-CBD, low-THC cannabis products have potential to “significantly improve the quality of life” for children with autism and epilepsy, additionally showing “promising results in reducing key symptoms” of other conditions experienced by young people, such as cancer—all with mostly […]

Science & Health Archives – Marijuana Moment Read More  [[{“value”:” Cannabis-infused vaginal suppositories seem to reduce sexual pain in women after treatment for gynecological cancer, according to a new study. Online exercises in so-called “mindful compassion,” meanwhile, helped to improve sexual function—including arousal, lubrication and orgasms. Combining the two, however, seemed to offer the patients […]

Science & Health Archives – Marijuana Moment Read More  [[{“value”:” Six years after Canada legalized marijuana sales nationwide, a new government report shows that daily or near-daily use rates by both adults and youth have held steady. Meanwhile, the vast majority of consumers now say they obtain cannabis legally, with only 3 percent of respondents […]

Science & Health Archives – Marijuana Moment Read More  [[{“value”:” Newly published research on the psychiatric effects of psilocybin suggests a complicated, potentially bidirectional relationship between the psychedelic’s therapeutic effects and sleep. Taking psilocybin not only appears to reduce sleep disturbances in patients for up to four weeks, the study says, but sleep itself may […]

Science & Health Archives – Marijuana Moment Read More  [[{“value”:” A newly published report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that psilocybin-assisted therapy in a group of frontline clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic “resulted in a significant, sustained reduction of symptoms of depression.” “In this randomized clinical trial, we aimed to […]

Science & Health Archives – Marijuana Moment Read More  [[{“value”:” Giving dogs a dose of CBD could help counteract the ill effects of accidental THC consumption, according to a new study that authors are calling “the first report of treatment of canine THC toxicosis by administration of CBD.” The paper, which is set to be […]