Studies of brain structural measures and cannabis use in youth and young adults also have produced mixed results

We combined data from different generations to serve as a comparison group for the Baby Boomer cohort. These different generations do not necessarily have the same prevalence of use or patterns of consumption. As a result, it would be inappropriate to use the results from this comparison group as predictive; for example, the observation of…

Limits on the over concentration of outlets in vulnerable neighborhoods and buffers around alcohol outlets were rare

Web-scraped data included the outlet address and offerings . We geocoded the addresses to 2019 block groups using the ArcGIS World Geocoding Service . are the most granular geographic level at which the Census Bureau reports demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, and are considered reasonable proxies for neighborhoods.32Covariates included in the adjustment set were factors hypothesized…

Findings suggest increased amygdala volume in female users compared to female non-users

Future research might better characterize the legislative goals of the cannabis industry using additional review of campaign expenditures, legislative testimony, and using key informant interviews. According to the 2011 Monitoring the Future Study, marijuana remains the most commonly used illicit drug in adolescence in the United States, one of few increasing in prevalence. In fact,…

Non-infectious pulmonary diagnoses were more common in both marijuana and tobacco smokers

Participants were followed until their first incident diagnosis, loss to follow-up, death, or end of study in 2014, whichever came first. For each outcome, models were fit separately for HIV+ and HIV− participants using two time-varying variables for marijuana and tobacco smoking: Model 1, current marijuana smoking and prior two-year average tobacco smoking , and Model 2,…

The tone of media coverage of cannabis-related issues also becomes more favorable

In other words, the federal government acknowledged the states’ lead in matters related to drug enforcement and allowed them to treat cannabis as a regulatory rather than a criminal matter . Several groups opposed the legalization of the recreational use of cannabis, the strongest of which were the pharmaceutical and alcohol industries, police unions, private…

One agriculturalist reported receiving death threats after selling water to cannabis cultivators

At the 2018 town hall, and numerous prior meetings, they emphasized their status as legitimate community members — veterans, citizens, consumers of county goods, local property owners, “good” growers and medical users — not nuisances, criminals, foreigners or outsiders. In interviews and public forums many Hmong-American cultivators expressed a desire to comply with the rules.…

Data among our participants seem to support this as only 30% of those who were HIV negative reported current PrEP use

Our finding that interruptions in mental health care directly linked to substance use, which in turn was linked to other negative outcomes, suggests that strategies to ensure continuity of care among this population are critical. The interruptions in care during the COVID-19 pandemic may be partly explained by loss of employment and subsequent loss of…

Cannabis is the most prevalent and increasingly used illicit drug in the United States

There are notable limitations to this study.As this is a pilot study,the authors acknowledge that future experiments will require more mice in each treatment group for an appropriately powered study.Assessments of the corpora cavernosa response to treatments were made based on histological and immunohistochemical changes.While these are adequate surrogates to determine how fibrosis can progress…

The Cumulative Energy Demand was the indicator used for the assessment of the environmental impacts

Hemp fiber and shives find use in construction industry,particularly in bio-architecture,as raw materials for buildings thermal insulation,due to their physical characteristics.Hemp shives begins to be widely used even in conventional buildings,often mixed with lime or cement to produce thermal insulating conglomerates.Short Technical hemp fiber not meant for textile manufacture is currently quite hard to place…

All the knitted fabrics were knitted with the same course and wale count

Regardless of the fact that yarn hairiness changes to some extent during knitting,the hairiness of the yarns incorporated into knits has not been tested,since drawing the yarns from the knits and their winding on a spool before hairiness monitoring would additionally change the surface geometry of the yarns.To assess the vulnerability of the surface of…