Authors reported that less than one-half of one percent of subjects reported ever having had a cannabis-induced acute psychotic episode during their lifetime.
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Researchers reported that the percentage of consumers who grew their own cannabis increased from six percent prior to the passage of legalization to nine percent in 2020.
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Investigators reported, “Our results revealed significant improvements in [the] overall … scores of the ASD participants, … particularly [among] those with more severe initial symptoms.”
“Recreational marijuana legalization … resulted in decreases in obesity rates for Washington State,” researchers concluded.
Most health care professionals admitted that they felt either “uncomfortable or ambivalent” regarding their knowledge of medical cannabis.
“The utility of using isolated marijuana use as a criterion for urine drug screening appears limited in benefit but rife with inequitable potential to harm,” authors concluded.
Authors predicted, “If the remaining … states without medical cannabis legalization were to legalize cannabis, spending on conventional pharmaceutical drugs would decrease by almost 11 percent.”