Dr. Michael Kuhar: Part 16-Understanding Marijuana Studies
What Do I Need to Know about Marijuana?
Release Date: 10/29/2019
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_outlineMichael Kuhar, PhD, chairs National Families in Action’s Science Advisory Board and recruited the scientists who serve on it. He is Candler Professor of Neuropharmacology at Emory University. Among many things, Dr. Kuhar discovered the mechanism by which cocaine causes addiction. He wrote The Addicted Brain and teaches an online Coursera course of the same name, which at any given time is visited by some 300,000 people.
Key Points
- Different kinds of studies
- Open studies
- Important to have control group
- Double blind studies
- Difference between correlation and causation
- What about two studies that contradict each other?
- Importance of replication
Next Up? Dr. Vandrey on Can States Regulate Medical Marijuana Like FDA Can?