The Institutional Review Board at the University of California, San Francisco approved all study procedures. Participants completed interviews at enrollment and every six months for up to three years. Interviews were conducted in a private space by a trained interviewer. Socially sensitive questions, including those regarding drug use and violence, were administered by audio computer-assisted…
Maximize Potency: Indoor Cannabis Grow Systems Unleashed
Such cases clearly show how drug use and sales is not the fault of the individual or a deficiency resulting from one’s ethnicity, but instead from a deficiency in society. A substantial number of studies using diffusion tensor imaging techniques have shown white matter abnormalities in schizophrenia and in first-episode psychosis , which include widespread decreased fractional…
Growing Ganja: A Deep Dive into Cannabis Cultivation Techniques
We have previously shown, however, that with ~weekly gaps between successive THC exposure, male and female rats do not become tolerant to the hypothermic effects of THC and nor does the magnitude differ across 20–25 weeks of adult age . In fact, it requires twice daily exposure to vapor inhalation for four days, at a…
Cultivating Creativity: The Artistry of Growing Exceptional Cannabis
In the entire sample, none of the plasma biomarkers of inflammation were significantly associated with any of the medial temporal lobe structures, there were no significant direct effects between the plasma biomarkers of inflammation and delayed recall, and no mediated effect was established. As stated above, the lack of association between inflammation and delayed recall…
Climbing to Success: The Future of Cannabis Cultivation is Vertical
Overall, research data in humans suggest general healthy diet and lifestyle measures are beneficial after diagnosis and during treatment of cancer, including healthy weight management, exercise, increased fruit and vegetable consumption, and avoidance of red or processed meats.Little evidence is available to support using specific nutritional strategies for dogs with cancer. Nonetheless, recommendations for specific commercial…
The Cannabis Grower’s Handbook: Essential Tips for Successful Cultivation
THC sensing from breath is challenging because it is present in a very small concentration in vapor phase. Successful breath assays of THC have required that picogram amounts of THC be collected from aerosol droplets in the breath that are expelled when the subject breathes out.Other complicating factors of THC detection include its fast metabolism…
Schizophrenia is a debilitating disorder associated with poor long-term outcomes and large societal costs
In the current study, findings were similar in a 1-year repeated measures analysis that allowed for intraperson variation.Within the United States alone, the economic burden has been estimated around 60 billion dollars annually and is a direct consequence of reduced productivity, high direct medical costs , and high non-health care costs. Recent work has highlighted the…
Alcohol use was assessed using the Alcohol and Drug Use Measure at baseline and each follow-up
It has also been shown that cannabinoid antagonists can prevent drug reinstatement with cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine. Thus, it seems that the future of cannabinoid antagonists in substance abuse treatment is particularly promising, especially in the clinical setting, where polydrug abuse is exceedingly more common than isolated single-drug abuse.The available data suggest that CB1 antagonism…
ERO power in a task that elicits a P3 response is also associated with a number of SNPs in the CHRM2 gene
Further exclusion criteria for ALC and CON are described elsewhere. In brief, ALC and CON participants were excluded for neurological disorders , psychiatric disorders , and medical and vascular risk factors , known to affect neurobiology or cognition as well as for MRI contraindications. In OD and ALC, hepatitis C, type-2 diabetes, hypertension, unipolar mood…
HVLT-R and BVMT-R recognition Z-scores were averaged to create a recognition composite
Epidemiological studies have shown that persons taking anti-inflammatory drugs for diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis had a reduced risk of developing AD . Moreover, small, randomized control trials examining anti-inflammatory drugs such as TNF-a inhibitors , though preliminary, have yielded encouraging results . If larger studies show that anti-inflammatory drugs can lower the risk of…