Clinicians ordered drug tests to be performed on Black newborns at nearly four times the rate of other children, the study found.
Region: United States
A federal judge previously ruled the federal ban unconstitutional, finding, “The use of marijuana is not in and of itself a violent, forceful, or threatening act.”
Legislation seeking to legalize the use of marijuana by adults advances in Delaware, Hawaii, and Minnesota.
Hispanic patients were twice as likely to be mandated to undergo testing and Black patients were four times as likely to be ordered to do so.
“As of 2019, we find [that] liberalization has been associated with lower pedestrian fatalities, not higher,” investigators concluded.
Patients with a history of cannabis use had significantly shorter length of stay and higher rates of home discharge following primary TJA compared to the control group.”
Over 90 percent of respondents said that cannabis use reduced their average pain by at least half.
Researchers reported, “Symptom relief was greatest after consumption of plant variants with slightly higher than average levels of the terpenes myrcene and terpinolene.”