Can weed cause psychosis? Yes, but only if you’re predisposed to have a psychotic disorder. If you do have a psychotic disorder, or you know one runs in your family, you should refrain from smoking marijuana, eating it, or ingesting it in [Read More…]
Habitual heavy marijuana use can cause a condition nearly identical to cyclic vomiting syndrome called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. The condition is marked by severe nausea and vomiting that runs in cycles of about 48 hours. Hot showers or baths tend to reduce [Read More…]
Can you get addicted to weed? The short answer is yes, but it’s complicated. Cannabis use disorder is an established diagnosis in the psychiatry field’s diagnostic Bible, the DSM-V. It falls in the family of substance-related addictive disorders. This fact alone doesn’t [Read More…]
Though the marijuana industry is still fraught with legal issues in the United States, a host of public cannabis companies are taking advantage of the exponential growth while sidestepping the regulatory nightmare of actually growing pot. From providing branding and packaging to [Read More…]
Despite anti-marijuana rhetoric from the U.S. Justice Department and continued federal restrictions on marijuana, the commercial cannabis industry is rolling toward the mainstream, and investors are poised to haul in cash especially in regards to public cannabis growers. All of the firms [Read More…]
What is Sativex? Sativex (Delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol) is a combination drug that contains a roughly one-to-one ratio of Delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD), the two most active cannabinoids in marijuana. “Cannabinoid” is the family of chemicals the two drugs belongs [Read More…]
What is Marinol? Marinol (the brand name for dronabinol) is pure Delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) distilled from marijuana resin, first approved in the U.S. in 1985. Doctors typically prescribe marinol in capsule form to be taken orally. “Cannabinoid” is the family of chemicals [Read More…]
Insys Therapeutics became the biggest donor to the 2016 anti-marijuana legalization campaign in Arizona four months before the feds arrested six top executives on suspicion of bribing doctors to over-prescribe their dangerous opiate product. According to their own Securities and Exchange Commission [Read More…]
The current U.S. Attorney General is outspoken against marijuana and marijuana legalization, but Congress has hampered his potential efforts to go after states with legal cannabis, at least for this fiscal year. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to his own statements, willfully [Read More…]
In the process of trying to find out why marijuana produces a psychoactive effect, researchers in the 1960s began to figure out a new, all-encompassing aspect the central nervous system, endocrine and limbic (brain) systems called “the endocannabinoid system,” deriving its name [Read More…]