Survey of Psychiatrists On Medical Cannabis
Psychiatric Times invited psychiatrists to complete a survey about medicinal marijuana and didn’t expect nearly 2200 people to complete that survey in just a few days. The results, reported in…
Archive for month: July, 2013
Cannabinoids: well-suited candidates for the treatment of perinatal brain injury.
Brain Sciences, 10 July 2013
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Perinatal brain injury can be induced by a number of different damaging events occurring during or shortly after birth, including neonatal asphyxia, neonatal hypoxia-ischemia and stroke-induced focal ischemia. Typical manifestations of these conditions are the presence of glut…
The impact of marijuana use on glucose, insulin, and insulin resistance among US adults.
The American Journal of Medicine, July 2013
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BACKGROUND: There are limited data regarding the relationship between cannabinoids and metabolic processes. Epidemiologic studies have found lower prevalence rates of obesity and diabetes mellitus in marijuana users compared with people who have never used marijuana, suggestin…