by Christine Tatum | Jun 22, 2015 | Featured, Marijuana, Research, Uncategorized
The White House today announced its intention to lift a bureaucratic requirement identified as an impediment to scientific research of cannabis. The move is consistent with calls from a group of bipartisan lawmakers and from recommendations issued in May by Smart...
by Christine Tatum | Jun 16, 2015 | Marijuana, Research, Uncategorized
A new statewide study funded by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment found that 13.6 percent of Colorado adults are regular users of marijuana — almost double the rate (7.4 percent) of the entire United States, according to recent Health and...
by Christine Tatum | May 28, 2015 | Marijuana, Public Policy, Research, Uncategorized
Smart Approaches to Marijuana, or SAM, today released a new report, “Researching Marijuana’s Potential Responsibly: A Six-Point Plan” and called for a series of recommendations aimed at overhauling how marijuana is researched in the United States....
by Chris Thurstone | May 22, 2015 | Marijuana, Military, Public Policy, Research, Uncategorized
I joined the U.S. Army in 2012 at age 42 largely because I am a psychiatrist who wants our active-duty and veteran service members and their families to receive the mental healthcare they need and deserve. I continue to serve and was deployed to the Middle East in the...
by Chris Thurstone | Mar 7, 2015 | Marijuana, Research
The results of this research were published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse in March 2015. For more information, see PubMed.gov Co-authors: Nussbaum AM, Thurstone C, McGarry L, Walker B, Sabel AL Citation: Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse. 2015...
by Chris Thurstone | Mar 4, 2015 | Marijuana, Media, Research, Uncategorized
There are few better examples of how science and journalism come together to confuse the public than last week’s news coverage of research out of Europe assessing and comparing risks associated with use of several drugs, including alcohol, marijuana and tobacco....