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Objective: To examine whether timing of in utero marijuana exposure independently and negatively impacts fetal growth, and if these effects are global or specific to certain growth parameters

Conclusions: Timing of marijuana exposure appears to play a key role in specific fetal growth deficits, with exposure throughout gestation most detrimental. However even first trimester exposure may result in decreased weight.

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Spain’s Universities of Leon and Oviedo found that “The gateway hypothesis holds that cannabis use increases other illegal substance use. Cannabis use duplicated the probabilities of tobacco and alcohol use.

Cannabis use increased 5 times the likelihood of use of other illegal drugs”.

Testing the cannabis gateway hypothesis in a national sample of Spanish adolescents

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The gateway hypothesis holds that cannabis use increases other illegal substance use.
Cannabis use duplicated the probabilities of tobacco and alcohol use.
Cannabis use increased five times the likelihood of use of other illegal drugs.

Source https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306460323001466

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The toxicological profile of CBD raises safety concerns, especially for long term consumption by the general population.

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Potential hazards from long term oral use of CBD are discussed.
CBD-induced male reproductive toxicity is observed from invertebrates to primates.
Mechanisms of CBD-mediated oral toxicity are not fully understood.

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Details: Published: 17 May 2023; Hits: 1042

Abstract: The legalization of recreational and medical cannabis has increased the availability and potency of cannabis products in homes and communities. Although state laws regarding legalization and commercial sale often encompass adult use only, pediatric toxicity from unintentional exposures to cannabis edibles and adolescent harm from chronic use are increasing in states and countries that have relaxed laws on use. Unintentional edible ingestions are shown to increase in regions that legalize and commercialize cannabis products at the retail level. Long-term effects on teenagers regarding psychiatric changes as well as acute gastrointestinal effects from hyperemesis syndrome are well documented in the medical literature... [Pediatr Ann. 2023;52(5):e181-e186.] (Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37159059/ )

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Details: Published: 12 May 2023; Hits: 1146

Moves by a small number of governments to legalize the non-medical use of cannabis have led to increased consumption without explaining the potentially serious health dangers that users face from the drug, a UN narcotics watchdog said on Thursday.

Issuing the warning at the launch of its annual report, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) cited data indicating that the trend caused “negative health effects and psychotic disorders” among some recreational cannabis users, while also contravening the UN 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

“In all jurisdictions where cannabis has been legalized, data show that cannabis-related health problems have increased,” INCB said. It pointed out that between 2000 and 2018, “global medical admissions related to cannabis dependence and withdrawal increased eight-fold. Admissions for cannabis-related psychotic disorders have quadrupled worldwide.”

United Nations News – March 2023

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