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Medical Marijuana Laws and Illegal Marijuana Use
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have passed laws that allow individuals to use marijuana for medical purposes. In this paper, I use marijuana possession arrests and treatment referrals by medical professionals to estimate the impact of medical marijuana laws on marijuana usage among non-patients. I find that these laws increase marijuana arrests among adult males by about 20%. The...
متن کاملMedical marijuana
Canadian Network for Respiratory Care, Caledon, Ontario Correspondence: Ms Andrea White Markham, 16983 Highway 62, Eldorado, Ontario K0K 1Y0. Telephone 647-202-9803, e-mail [email protected] The current issue the Journal includes an article describing the use of vaporizers for medical marijuana. As respiratory therapists (RTs), we must be aware of the science behind the use of these devices an...
متن کاملMedical marijuana and beyond.
'Legalise marijuana for medical purposes' was the cry in Parliament that prompted the response by Charles Parry and Bronwyn Myers in this issue of SAMJ. Much parliamentary and public sentiment favoured such an action. But is this the wisest course to follow? The abuse of drugs is harmful to the individual, families and communities. Declaring war on drugs, as US President Nixon did in 1971, ther...
متن کاملToo Many Mouldy Joints – Marijuana and Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis
Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis is a progressive debilitating disease with multiple underlying pulmonary diseases described. Here we report the association of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis and long term marijuana smoking in 2 patients and review the literature related to invasive and allergic aspergillosis.
متن کاملMedical Marijuana-Opportunities and Challenges.
Copyright: © 2016 Liu Q. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Over the recent years, public and political opinions have demonstrated increasing support for the legalization of medical marijuana. To ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.1150081