Home
Search:
1146 feeds
357 categories
0 articles (<24 hours)
28 registered users

Use the Mobile version
Mobile

Follow our Twitter feed

View our Linkpartners
Links

Username:
Password:

Register | Retrieve

General


RSS FeedsSurgeon Generalīs Marijuana Warning Omits Crucial Context
(World News USA)

 
 

15 november 2019 14:13:08

 
Surgeon Generalīs Marijuana Warning Omits Crucial Context
(World News USA)
 


Speaking about a recent federal advisory on marijuana, Dr. Jerome Adams, the surgeon general, put a new spin on long-standing admonitions about the drug. `Marijuana has a unique impact on the developing brain. It can prime your brain for addiction to other substances,` Adams said at a Washington, D.C., substance abuse conference held late in August and sponsored by Oxford House, a recovery center network. This is a reiteration of the old `gateway` argument: the idea that marijuana is frequently an entree to using other, harder drugs. And the surgeon generalīs emphasis comes just as many states are loosening restrictions around its medicinal and adult recreational use. But marijuana research...


 
9 viewsCategory: General > North America > USA
 
Santa Clara pays visit to Stanford
(World News USA)
Seattle pays visit to Syracuse
(World News USA)
 
 
blog comments powered by Disqus


Copyright © 2008 - 2024 Indigonet Services B.V.. Contact: Tim Hulsen. Read here our privacy notice.
Other websites of Indigonet Services B.V.: Nieuws Vacatures Science Tweets Nachrichten