This category needs to be renamed to be meaningful than “Miscellaneous” but it will do for now. Basically it’s intended for news, research, legal actions and other information about medical marijuana for the general, nonexpert audience: patients, jouralists, the curious, etc.

Interplay between endocannabinoids, steroids and cytokines in the control of human reproduction.

Authors: Natalia Battista, N. Pasquariello, M. Di Tommaso, Mauro Maccarrone
Journal of Neuroendocrinology, May 2008

The use of marijuana, which today is the most used recreational drug, has been demonstrated to affect adversely reproduction. Marijuana smokers, both men and women, show impaired fertility, owing to defective signalling pathways, aberrant hormonal regulation, or wrong timing d…

Non-acute (residual) neurocognitive effects of cannabis use: a meta-analytic study.

Authors: Igor Grant, Raul Gonzalez, Catherine L. Carey, Loki Natarajan, Tanya Wolfson
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, July 2003

The possible medicinal use of cannabinoids for chronic diseases emphasizes the need to understand the long-term effects of these compounds on the central nervous system. We provide a quantitative synthesis of empirical research pertaining to the non-acute (residual) effects of…