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Pot Use During Pregnancy May Affect Brain Development, Study

By Alex Halperin on July 19, 2016 News

The question of use by women who are expecting heats up.

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A study suggests that cannabis use during pregnancy affects brain development. More Colorado newborns are testing positive for THC.

Thirty-three were hospitalized in Brooklyn, for suspected synthetic cannabis (“K2”) overdoses in the area around a subway stop.

The National Institutes of Health sent out a request for information about varieties of marijuana and their possible research value.

Check out this chart which illustrates last week’s remarkable finding that drug prescriptions are falling in MED states.

Project CBD published a CBD Users Manual. It’s one of the better ones I’ve seen.

Cannabis allergies are climbing.

The big move by Scotts Miracle-Grow into cannabis is dividing the industry.

Buzzfeed makes the case that Facebook and Google’s cannabis policy enforcement is a mess.

The U.K.’s GW Pharmaceuticals which has seen its stock soar on data from its cannabis-based drug Epidiolex, plans to raise $252 million on the Nasdaq exchange with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch shepherding the deal.

Business attorney Hilary Bricken lays out six weed scams for investors and others to watch out for.

Compliance at Millennium Bank, a community bank in Des Plaines, Ill. is reportedly under scrutiny from state and federal authorities for working with marijuana companies.

Whitney Hobbs, a founder of Oregon distributor Highly Distributed, has sued CEO Christopher Mallott for sexual harassment that led to her departure from the company. She says he groped and smelled her. The company declined to comment but an employee refuted Hobbs’ claims.

Cannabis sales continue to climb in Colorado and support the state’s economy. See here for more.

A glimpse of the future? A group of Colorado’s largest craft breweries, led a break-up of the Colorado Brewers Guild to form a new group called Craft Beer Colorado. The split follows an overhaul of state alcohol laws.

Analyst Alan Brochstein writes that Canada’s pot policies make more sense than America’s.

Former NORML head Allen St. Pierre joined a publicly-traded consultancy called Freedom Leaf.

New Study Says Marijuana Could Help Protect the Brain From Alzheimer’s Disease

By Toke of the Town on July 8, 2016 Medical, News

David Schubert, the senior author of the Salk Institute study on THC and Alzheimer’s disease.

A new study suggests that marijuana may have potential for protecting brain cells against Alzheimer’s disease.

Published in the June 2016 issue of Nature, the study found that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive compound in marijuana, and other active cannabis compounds could block the progression of the disease.

Lab tests by the Salk Institute, a Southern California, non-profit research organization, showed that marijuana compounds could remove harmful amyloid beta proteins, the plaque that accumulates on brain cells, which is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. The compounds in the study also significantly reduced cellular inflammation, a major contributor to the onset of the disease.

For more on the study, read L.A. Weekly‘s article on the effect of marijuana on Alzheimer’s disease.

AAA Releases Another Flawed Study About Cannabis Use and Driving

By Jack Daniel on December 29, 2014 Culture, News, Say what?

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A new study just put out by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has once again proven that Americans are misinformed, and therefore easily confused, when it comes to cannabis use and driving a car.
As cannabis reform sweeps the nation, so too does a new round of the same stale talking points about the supposed dangers of marijuana use that have been regurgitated for decades, always muddying the waters of the debate.
If the numbers revealed in the AAA study are anywhere near accurate, all it would prove is that you can probably train a monkey to hate bananas with the right amount of propaganda.

Researcher Sue Sisley on Her Request for Colorado to Fund Study on Pot and PTSD

By William Breathes on December 17, 2014 Medical, News

Controversial cannabis researcher Sue Sisley is on her way back to Colorado today, after six months that have been a “pretty barbaric rollercoaster,” she says. “One injustice after another, and I suspect it will not slow down for quite a while.” But at the end of November, the Arizona-based researcher finally caught a break: Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council chose eight research-grant proposals for the Board of Health to consider at its December 17 meeting — including Sisley’s proposal to study the effectiveness of using marijuana to treat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Teen Pot Smoking Declines Nationally, Study Finds

By William Breathes on December 17, 2014 News

One of the most popular arguments among marijuana-legalization critics is that greater cannabis accessibility for adults will lead to more use by teens. But a new study from the University of Michigan calls that assumption into question. Michigan researchers found that teen pot use actually declined this year despite legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington and liberalization of medical marijuana laws in many locations across the country.

Researchers Say Pot Hinders Creativity Based on Tiny, Flawed Study

By William Breathes on December 4, 2014 News, Say what?

He should pack that bowl.

Despite overwhelming cultural evidence against them, researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands say that pot hurts creativity instead of helping it.
Really.

Study: Cannabis Can Help in Alzheimer’s Battle

By William Breathes on December 1, 2014 Medical, News

Add another link to the growing chain of studies showing that certain chemicals found in the cannabis plant can help Alzheimer’s patients. A study published earlier this year in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease shows that THC can slow or end the progress of the disease.
But it’s more complicated than giving patients a joint to toke — though puffing apparently has it’s benefits as well. Researchers at the University of South Florida treated isolated Alzheimer’s cells in a lab with varying amounts of THC. The results show that THC reduces or eliminates the protein buildup associated with the disease.

Study Shows Marijuana Helps Shrink Certain Severe Brain Cancers

By William Breathes on November 19, 2014 CBD, Medical, News

When combined with radiation therapy, low doses of THC and CBD helped to kill high-grade glioma masses, among the most aggressive brain cancers there is, according to a report from St. George’s University in London.
Researchers say the THC and CBD made the cells more receptive to the radiation and that the tumors shrank up to 90 percent of their original size.

Vermont Finishes Study on Legalizing Pot, Results Due in January

By William Breathes on November 14, 2014 Follow that story, Legalize It, News

Cosmonaut.

We told you earlier this year about Vermont teaming with the RAND Corporation to study what the legalization of limited amounts of cannabis for adult use would look like.
The study is now complete – it’s apparently as thick as a phone book — but won’t be released until January. But the public is getting hints as to what it contains.

Another Government-Funded Study Claims Marijuana Makes You Stupid

By William Breathes on November 11, 2014 News, Say what?

People who smoke marijuana regularly may have lower IQs than those who don’t, or maybe they don’t. A recent study by the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas is rather inconclusive on the whole thing, despite the study making headlines as pure fact.

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