Researchers found that traffic deaths fell by an average of 12% in legal states in the three years immediately following legalization
“A direct comparison of alcohol and cannabis showed that alcohol was considered more than twice as harmful as cannabis.”
New research suggests that in some states, medicinal cannabis use could be leading to a reduction in the use of anxiety medications
“I am hopeful this is a first step towards Massachusetts someday being positioned as a global leader in cannabis research.”
Observational studies have previously reported decreases in consumers’ alcohol use on days when they use cannabis
Analysis: “There is a higher prevalence of physical activity in areas with legalized cannabis, particularly for recreation.”
Investigators “did not observe functional differences between baseline and brain activation at one-year during working memory, reward processing, or inhibitory control tasks.”
Guest Opinion: These latest surveys are far from the only evidence that fewer teens are experimenting with cannabis
“America’s legal cannabis industry created nearly 23,000 new jobs in 2023,” but Massachusetts reportedly lost nearly a thousand jobs.
“Older patients represent an increasingly important subset of the medical cannabis population whose unique needs and patterns of use warrant further investigation.”
