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Cannabis Use Disorder and Risk of Psychotic & Nonpsychotic Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder

Breathe Free Oregon

Aug 15
1 min

Cannabis Use Disorder and Risk of Psychotic & Nonpsychotic Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder

A prospective, population-based cohort study using Danish nationwide registers included all individuals born in Denmark before December...

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Breathe Free Oregon

Apr 25
1 min

How Weed Became the New OxyContin

Cannabis "has become a hardcore drug, like cocaine or methamphetamines." Just as with other hardcore drugs, chronic cannabis use leads to...

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Long-Term Outcomes of Adolescent THC Exposure on Translational Cognitive Measures

Breathe Free Oregon

Jan 21
1 min

Long-Term Outcomes of Adolescent THC Exposure on Translational Cognitive Measures

This rat study revealed that exposure to high-dose THC in adolescence resulted in cognitive vulnerabillity in adulthood. Specifically,...

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Public Service Announcement: A Warning of the Real Danger of Marijuana

Breathe Free Oregon

May 14, 2022
1 min

Public Service Announcement: A Warning of the Real Danger of Marijuana

Key Findings: "The brain is a very fatty tissue and TCH is stored in the brain, long after it can no longer be measured in the...

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Comparative Effects of Smoking Marihuana or Placebo on Human Motor and Mental Performance

Breathe Free Oregon

Jan 10, 2022
1 min

Comparative Effects of Smoking Marihuana or Placebo on Human Motor and Mental Performance

Key Findings: A double blind study of subjects smoking both a marijuana cigarette and a placebo showed a significant decrement of motor...

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Breathe Free Oregon

Nov 8, 2020
1 min

Marijuana and Violence

Key Finding: The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center examined 28 incidents of mass attacks that took place between...

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Association of Depression With Past-Month Cannabis Use

Breathe Free Oregon

Nov 8, 2020
1 min

Association of Depression With Past-Month Cannabis Use

Studies have shown that cannabis may worsen depression, yet popular media increasingly presents cannabis as beneficial to mental health....

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Cannabinoids are neurotoxic with chronic exposure

Breathe Free Oregon

Jun 9, 2020
1 min

Cannabinoids are neurotoxic with chronic exposure

"Chronic administration of cannabinoids will induce neuronal death", while acute doses can protect from brain trauma, as hypothesized by...

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Neurological Perspective on the Harmful Effects of Smoking

Breathe Free Oregon

Jun 9, 2020
1 min

Neurological Perspective on the Harmful Effects of Smoking

Due to the alarming effect of cannabinoids on public health, several population-based studies (findings from each analysis conducted...

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Higher Indoor CO2 Levels: Good for Growing Cannabis, Bad for Human Cognition

Breathe Free Oregon

Apr 10, 2020
1 min

Higher Indoor CO2 Levels: Good for Growing Cannabis, Bad for Human Cognition

A Harvard School of Public Health study found higher CO2 levels used to grow Cannabis have a direct and negative impact on human...

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