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I feel like many out there are trying really, really hard to put cannabis on par with serious drug and alcohol addiction. There is a reason that the term "habit-forming" is nearly always tossed in the mix when talking about cannabis addiction.
Once I started to question what I had been taught, I discovered that a lot of what I thought I knew was misinformation. These are the four most prominent truths I have discovered about cannabis since I left the church.
While habitual energy is tough to break, there are other reasons we long for the act of smoking regardless of the substance, and it has to do with breathing.
The revolutionary idea? Addiction is not caused by substances, rather, it is caused by isolation.
A new study examined the effects of state laws establishing a medicinal cannabis program on reducing the mortality rate due to overdose on prescription opioids.
In the past four years, use of "ice" has doubled, and a correlating spike in violent crime has come along with it.
Langston draws some interesting lines between early American racial history and the characterization of drug users. Maybe that is how the government has justified the overblown, overreaching tactics to fight this failed drug war.
A recent article showcased the hesitance of German pharmaceutical companies to get behind cannabis legalization. Did I say hesitance? I meant something more along the lines of vehement opposition.
Although there is no significant evidence to prove that marijuana addiction is any more real than Santa Claus or democracy, a group of scientific minds out of Vanderbilt University believe they have found the key ...
Before you launch into a rant on why cannabis is clearly the superior form of intoxication, it is important to get your facts straight. Is weed really a safer alternative to alcohol?
For every article that comes out trying to lambast cannabis, I can find plenty more that show how cannabis alone has saved a life, helped with a troubling situation, or helped to battle anxiety and depression.
The idea that cannabis could be much worse for teenage users than previously expected, could make any parent lose sleep at night. Fortunately, those parents can breathe a little easier - because the story's lede is misleading nearly to the point of outright falsehood.
As we recognize the hidden financial ties between academics advocating for the prohibition and strict regulation of cannabis and large prescription drug companies, we begin to see that there is an anti-cannabis agenda being pushed by drug companies that has nothing to do with health and safety, and everything to do with keeping prescription drug sales up.
The enactment of medicinal marijuana laws is associated with significantly lower state-level opioid overdose fatalities, by an average of 24.8%, according to data published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine.
A German woman has emigrated to Switzerland where she can get government supplied synthetic heroin that, she claims, is the reason she has been able to regain control of her life.
The New York Times publicly endorsed the legalization of weed last week, and followed up with numerous articles supporting its position. The paper addressed some of the xenophobic and medically inaccurate reefer madness myths surrounding the plant...
The New York Times editorial board put out a call for the federal government to end the ban on marijuana. Obviously, I agree and there is a good chance that you do as well, being a Weedist reader. As with any strong statement, there are a bevy of supporters and denouncers alike.
I stumbled upon this gem of a site, that claims to put out "science-based information for the public" from the UW's Institute for Alcohol and Drug Abuse. In my never-ending quest to find cannabis myth being spread as fact, I felt the need to comb through this site a bit and see just what "science-based information" they are disseminating.
