Consistent with prior studies, researchers determined that cannabis consumers were more likely than non-users to engage in light physical activity.
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“Legalization was not significantly associated with immediate or ongoing changes in hospitalization rates … for either younger or older adults,” investigators concluded.
Scientists concluded, “The lack of correlation between driving and blood THC fits within emerging evidence that there is not a linear relationship between the two.”
Twenty-two percent of those who suffered from a work-related injury that involved “severe pain symptoms” used cannabis as part of their recovery.
Nearly 100 percent of those surveyed “believed that their training did not prepare them to support patients using cannabis.”
Authors determined that these reductions have led to approximately 21,000 fewer criminal interactions between police and young people in the years following nationwide legalization.
“Overall, there is no clear evidence that [legalization] had any effect on rates of ED visits and hospitalizations for either motor vehicle or pedestrian/cyclist injury,” authors determined.
Investigators concluded, “Cannabinoids have a role in treating chronic neuropathic pain.”