Staff members at the Hemp Museum in Berlin on Friday watching the parliament vote to legalise cannabis. The German parliament voted Friday to legalize the possession and controlled cultivation of cannabis starting in April, despite fierce objections from the opposition …
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Researchers find correlation between hookah use and postpartum depression
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Symptoms of postpartum depression are higher among women who used hookahs before or during pregnancy, according to a study led by Zelalem Haile, Ph.D., Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine associate professor of epidemiology. Hookahs …
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain “Diet weed” is a phrase used to describe Delta-8 products, which are often synthetic recreations of a chemical compound found in cannabis. First popularized following the 2018 Farm Bill that permitted the sale of hemp, Delta-8 …
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7 charts reveal Australians are smoking less, taking more drugs and still binge drinking
Credit: The Conversation Australians’ vices, including drinking, smoking and illicit drugs, have been revealed in the latest HILDA survey. The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey tracks the same 17,000 Australians each year, with participants followed over the …
Read More »Motivations for substance use in teens mainly linked to reducing stress, study finds
The motivations underlying substance use among adolescents are mainly related to reducing stress, according to research published in the Feb. 8 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Sarah Connolly, Ph.D., from …
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Researchers develop rapid test for detecting fentanyl
UT Dallas bioengineering researchers Ivneet Banga Ph.D.’23 and Dr. Anirban Paul demonstrate how a sensor their team developed can detect fentanyl. The researchers drop liquid directly on the sensor platform, which is connected to a laptop and provides results within …
Read More »Study finds links between prenatal substance exposure and childhood mental health
Associations of prenatal substance exposures with behavioral, mental, cognitive, and neuroimaging outcomes. Left, a plot of the largest -log10 p-values of the health associations among four prenatal substance exposures and polysubstance use at the baseline. Right, significant health associations of …
Read More »New research explores the effects of cannabidiol on general health
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For 20 years, Laura Stewart, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, at the University of Northern Colorado, has been exploring how exercise improves the immune system. Over the last decade, however, …
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