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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “""Medical Marijuana""”.
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Qualitative Reports Of Michigan Medical Marijuana
<p>After hundreds of years of use the medical properties of Marijuana have been marginalized in our society. Qualitative interview data was collected from medical marijuana patients and knowledgeable producers and activists in Michigan about their perceptions and observations on the medical use of …
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Trial and Error : medical marijuana, the absence of evidence, and the allure of anecdote
… past four years, Christy Shake has given her son marijuana extract six times a day to ease his childhood epilepsy. Hers is a compelling story that highlights the potential benefits of medical cannabis. But in the wake of antiquated and inflexible federal legislation, anecdotal reports like these …
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Cultivating Reform: Richard Nixon's Illicit Substance Control Legacy, Medical Marijuana Social Movement Organizations, And Venue Shopping
… last two decades, organizations representing the medical marijuana social movement have campaigned for, proposed state level legislation, and supported numerous legal arguments that challenge and attempt to reform U.S. federal illicit substance policies. This set of social regulatory policies, …
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Exploration of Patient Variables and Characteristics Best Suited for Medical Marijuana Treatment for Anxiety and Depressive Disorders
… disorders are currently being prescribed medical marijuana as a treatment in many states across the United States. However, marijuana is still considered a schedule one narcotic by the Drug Enforcement Administration and federal government, which provides several barriers and challenges to …
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Essays on Marijuana Legalizations
… we investigate the effect of Recreational marijuana laws (RMLs) on Harder Drug Use and Crime. RMLs, which legalize the possession of small quantities of marijuana for recreational use, have been adopted by 18 states and the District of Columbia. Opponents argue that RML-induced increases in …
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Through the Gateway: Marijuana Production, Governance, and the Drug War Détente
<p>Since the 1996 voter approval of medical marijuana laws in California, marijuana policy has become increasingly liberalized. Producers, however, have remained in the greyest of grey market zones. Federal anti-drug laws and supply-side tactics have intensively targeted them even as marijuana has …
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Towards Health Centered Drug Policy: An Analysis of Past and Developing Drug Policy
… drug policy and could shift public focus towards medical approaches to treating addiction, however, inertia in drug policy persists, influenced by America’s popular political beliefs about illicit substances. A long-standing narrative in the United States views marijuana as a “gateway drug” that …
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Attitudes before and after the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana among Undergraduate Students in Nevada
Increased legalization of recreational marijuana across the U.S. is a relevant phenomenoninfluencing society. Emerging adults are greatly affected by retail marijuana, and theirperceptions, as well as use behavior, are likely to change with legalization. In Nevada,medical marijuana has been legal …
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Essays on the Labor Market, Hard Drug Use, and Traffic Fatalities
<p>Medical and recreational marijuana laws have proven to be contentious issues as they are being considered in numerous states in recent years. This dissertation investigates three different aspects of the effect of marijuana legalizations. In the first chapter of this dissertation, my co-author 1 …
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Education About the Adverse Health Effects of Recreational Marijuana: The Role of Type of Persuasion and Source
… cannabis based on increasing research supporting medical benefits and the assumption, albeit questionable, that this is a safe drug. Statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) demonstrate a sharp increase in users, especially among the youth population (2014). This is problematic …
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What's Race Got To Do With It? A Cannabis Industry Policy Analysis Using Critical Race Theory
… 24 states have fully legalized recreational and medical marijuana. This shift has prompted agencies like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to argue that marijuana legalization is a racial justice issue since racialized communities have suffered the most from marijuana prohibition. Using …
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Three essays on crime policy and the Bayesian bootstrap
… main findings. In the third chapter, I examine medical marijuana laws (MMLs), which legalize the use, possession, and cultivation of marijuana by individuals with qualifying medical conditions. Namely, I employ municipal-level data from the FBI to analyze the effect of MMLs on violent crime …
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MEDICAL CANNABIS USE AMONG CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH PRESCRIPTION OPIOID USE: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
<p>Medical cannabis is increasingly used as a treatment for chronic pain, and there is initial evidence that medical cannabis may lead to a subsequent decrease in prescription opioid use. The objective of the current study was to conduct a retrospective, naturalistic examination of medical cannabis …
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The hidden triad of cannabis influence
… the second country in the world to legalize non-medical cannabis, with the goal to promote better health and well-being amongst Canadians. To date, the ways in which young adults in Canada perceive and experience cannabis in this new legal context have been minimally explored and are not well …
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Drug Use Incidence Recorded in a Midwestern Emergency Department
… There were significantly more incidents of marijuana and amphetamine use at MWH than were reported to DAWN and significantly fewer incidents of cocaine and heroin. There were significantly more incidents of marijuana and acetaminophen use at MVW than were reported to MINI-DAWN. This study …
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Papain: a Novel Urine Adulterant.
… illicit drugs is approximately 20 million, with marijuana being the most frequently abused drug. Urine adulterants provide an opportunity for illicit drug users to obtain a false negative result on commonly used primary drug screening methods such as the Fluorescence Polarized Immunoassay (FPIA) …
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A COMPARISION OF DELTA-9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL DEPENDENCE IN C57Bl/6j MICE AND FATTY ACID AMIDE HYDROLASE KNOCK OUT MICE
… animals can become physically dependent on marijuana or its primary psychoactive constituent, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is gaining acceptance. However, there are no currently approved pharmacotherapies to treat cannabinoid withdrawal. The objective of this thesis was to evaluate …
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Characterizing the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicities of Cannabidiol and Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol
Medical marijuana is legal in twenty-nine of the United States and an additional nineteen states have passed legislation for cannabidiol (CBD) treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy, such as Dravet Syndrome (DS) which is diagnosed in children as young as two months. While CBD has shown anecdotal and …
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The pharmacological activity of the acidic, basic, and polar neutral fractions of marihuana whole smoke condensate alone, and in combination with, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
… of the full text, please contact the Ruth Lilly Medical Library's Interlibrary Loan Department (rlmlill@iu.edu).
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Functional Characterization of CRIP1a Knockout Mice
… the central nervous system (CNS) effects of marijuana and endocannabinoids. Recently, cannabinoid receptor interacting protein 1a (CRIP1a) was discovered as a novel protein that binds to the CB1 receptor C-terminus and inhibits CB1 receptor activity without affecting CB1 expression. This …
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