Adverse Effects of Marijuana Use

Adverse health effects of marijuana use.

Copyright © 2014 Massachusetts Medical Society. In light of the rapidly shifting landscape regarding the legalization of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes, patients may be more likely to ask physicians about its potential adverse and beneficial effects on health. The popular notion seems to be that marijuana is a harmless pleasure, access to which should not be regulated or consid...

The effects of medical marijuana laws on illegal marijuana use.

More and more states have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical purposes. There is an ongoing, heated policy debate over whether these laws have increased marijuana use among non-patients. In this paper, I address that question empirically by studying marijuana possession arrests in cities from 1988 to 2008. I estimate fixed effects models with city-specific time trend...

The adverse effects of cannabinoids: implications for use of medical marijuana.

Effectiveness, Adverse Effects, and Safety of Medical Marijuana.

Dose-related neurocognitive effects of marijuana use.

BACKGROUND Although about 7 million people in the US population use marijuana at least weekly, there is a paucity of scientific data on persistent neurocognitive effects of marijuana use. OBJECTIVE To determine if neurocognitive deficits persist in 28-day abstinent heavy marijuana users and if these deficits are dose-related to the number of marijuana joints smoked per week. METHODS A batte...