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She would like her next study to focus on disease populations and how they use cannabis for relief to determine the efficacy and safety of cannabis for various health conditions. Goss, meanwhile, ...

Added to that, the cannabis industry also has been touched by a recent health crisis related to vaping ... Others blame regulations and state taxes, which is why Drayton said the industry was ...

People have been using natural psychoactive substances like kratom for hundrends, or even thousands, of years in traditional medicine and as a part of spiritual practices. Because these substances come from sources such as plants and mushrooms, many people believe them to be safe to use. However, because they interfere with biological processes in the central nervous system, they can be a threat to human health. These interferences can also cause euphoria and altered states of consciousness. For these reasons, many people are now using natural psychoactive substances for recreational purposes. New research has studied trends in the number of people in the United States who reported adverse reactions as a result of exposure to psychoactive substances during 2000–2017. The Cen...

Aleafia Health owns three major cannabis product & cultivation facilities ... the TSX Venture Exchange named Aleafia the 2019 top performing company prior to its graduation to the TSX. Forward Looking ...

Which substance is more dangerous – kratom or nutmeg? News reports about a recent study that analyzed calls to U.S. poison ... “As more states continue to legalize marijuana in various forms, parents ...

The FDA sent letters to 15 privately held companies for making health claims for their CBD products. Rob DiPisa, co-chair of the Cannabis Law Group at law firm Cole Schotz ... hoping to launch lines ...

Exposure to natural substances with psychoactive effects -- including marijuana, kratom, magic mushrooms and nutmeg -- triggered more than 67,300 calls to U.S. Poison Control Centers over nearly two decades. That's an average of 3,743 calls a year between January 2000 and December 2017, or about 10 calls a day, according to researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. About nine in 10 cases occurred at a home, 64 percent involved males, and most cases were in people older than 19 (41 percent), or aged 13 to 19 (35 percent). The substances most often involved were marijuana (47 percent); anticholinergic plants such as jimson weed (21 percent); and hallucinogenic mushrooms (16 percent). Rates of hospital admission and serious medical outcomes were most common in ...

U.S. Poison Centers Field More Calls About Psychoactive Substances: Study By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to natural substances with ...

Because the FDA has approved a drug that contains the ingredient – GW Pharmaceutical’s GWPH, +0.74% Epidiolex, a treatment for severe forms of childhood epilepsy – it told companies that they could ...

The news ignited a rally on Wednesday ... dubbed Cannabis 1.0. The second phase, Cannabis 2.0, will allow companies to offer edibles and other derivatives, but those will not be available until about ...