MARIJUANA AND MORNING SICKNESS
One of the medical uses for marijuana is in treating nausea, such as in people undergoing chemotherapy treatments for cancer. People have been using marijuana to treat nausea for thousands of years, and there are even FDA-approved THC-based drugs for this purpose. One group that frequently uses marijuana for nausea is pregnant women suffering from […]
DABBING
There are more ways to ingest marijuana than most non-users could probably dream of. You can smoke bongs or joints, eat it in foods like the infamous pot brownie, vape or inhale it, brew it into teas or other drinks, make it into an oil and apply it topically, eat it raw, and even use […]
CANNABIS AND CAFFEINE
In October of 2018, The Cannabis Act (the full title of which is “An Act respecting cannabis and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Criminal Code and other Acts”), also known as Bill C-45, will go into effect in Canada. It will legalize recreational use of cannabis nationwide, allowing for use by individuals 18 and […]
MARIJUANA FOR ASTHMA
They might be the last two words you’d expect to hear together – asthma cigarettes. Believe it or not, this was an actual remedy at one time. In 1901, the French novelist Marcel Proust (perhaps most famous as the author of In Search of Lost Time), wrote a letter in which he described his ongoing […]
CONTAMINATED DRUGS AND FILLERS
Among the many other risks inherent in using illegal drugs, if you’re buying them off the street you have no way of knowing how pure they are or what other substances they may have been mixed with. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued an advisory to the medical community about an […]
GATEWAY DRUGS
First popularized in the 1980s, the gateway drug theory says that adolescent use of tobacco, alcohol or marijuana increases the risk of using and developing an addiction to other, more harmful substances, such as opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamines. Data from the National Epidemiological Study of Alcohol Use and Related Disorders found that adults who reported marijuana […]
MARIJUANA MYTHS
Marijuana is typically viewed by users as a safe drug, and even those who would never try other substances often wave away the warnings. Those who decry its use, on the other hand, tend to overstate the dangers. Here are some of the common misconceptions about marijuana. Marijuana is not addictive – 30 percent of […]
CIGARETTE FIRES
By now, most of us are aware of all the health dangers posed by smoking cigarettes. Heart and lung disease, various types of cancer, stroke – there are almost too many ways that smoking can harm your body to even remember. There’s one deadly side effect that you might never have considered, despite the fact […]
TOBACCO AND MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
You probably know that mental health disorders and substance use disorders frequently go hand in hand. Many people attempt to self-medicate their problems, using drugs and alcohol in an attempt to drown out the feelings of anxiety or depression. Did you know that tobacco use is also high among people with mental illnesses? In fact, […]
MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION
An increasing number of states are decriminalizing the use of marijuana, both medically and recreationally. Recently, Canada became only the second country in the world – following Uruguay – to implement legislation to create a nationwide marijuana market. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited a desire to keep marijuana away from teens and reduce drug-related crime […]