Dr. Marilyn Huestis: Part 11-Chronic, Frequent Marijuana Use
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
Release Date: 09/24/2019
Dr. Michael Kuhar: Marijuana Can Make Users Psychotic
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
Key Points Strong evidence marijuana causes psychosis The more marijuana you use, the greater the incidence of psychosis This dose-response relationship suggests causality.
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Dr. Marilyn Huestis: Part 25-Israel’s Experience & Advice for Researchers
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
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Dr. Compton: Part 24: More on Executive Function - What is the ABCD Study? 1
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
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Dr. Huestis: Part 23:Marijuana Edibles
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
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Dr. Vandrey: Part 22-On Marijuana Edibles, CBD & What is Synthesis?
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
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Dr. Marilyn Huestis: Part 21-How Marijuana Affects Kids
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
Marilyn A. Huestis, PhD, includes the following key Points:
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Dr. Mahmoud ElSohly: Part 20-Is Marijuana the Same as Epidiolex?
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
Mahmoud A. Elsohly, PhD, directs the Marijuana Project, which grows pharmaceutical-grade marijuana for research.
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Dr. Marilyn Huestis: Part 19-Marijuana Tolerance
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
Marilyn A. Huestis, PhD, recently retired as chief of chemistry and drug metabolism at the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse but remains highly active in the field.
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Dr. Wilson Compton: Part 18-Predicting Future Marijuana Problems
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
Wilson Compton, MD, is deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an agency of the National Institutes of Health.
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Dr. Ryan Vandrey: Part 17-Can States Regulate Medical Marijuana like FDA Does?
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
Dr. Vandrey's key points include:
info_outlineMarilyn A. Huestis, PhD, recently retired as chief of chemistry and drug metabolism at the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse but remains highly active in the field. She is a senior fellow at the Lambert Center for the Study of Medicinal Cannabis and Hemp at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa.; consultant to the US Department of Transportation; and serves on the Science Advisory Boards of Smart Approaches to Marijuana and National Families in Action. She is known for her research on how marijuana use affects driving and how exposure to parents’ marijuana use affects the developing fetus, breast-feeding newborns, and young children, as well as the new psychoactive substances.
Key Points
- THC is fat soluble – brain is one of the fattiest tissues in the body.
- In chronic, frequent users, THC comes out of the blood rapidly, but active THC that is stored in the body’s fatty tissues, including the brain, leaches out slowly and can be detected for as long as 30 days.
- What is body burden?
- Cannabinoid system can turn off both excitatory and inhibitory neurons.
Next Up? Dr. ElSohly on Does Marijuana Reduce Opioid Use, Deaths?