Adverse Health Effects of Marijuana Use

By Nora D. Volkow, R. Baler, W. Compton, S. Weiss. New England Journal of Medicine, 2014

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As marijuana use becomes legal in some states, the dominant public opinion is that marijuana is a harmless source of mood alteration. Although the harms associated with marijuana use have not been well studied, enough information is available to cause concern.

Subfields: Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Pharmacology

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Citations in the corpus

• Genomic and Chemical Diversity in Cannabis (2015, background): “When heated, THCA is converted to delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which has potent psychoactive (Volkow et al., 2014), appetite-stimulating (Berry and Mechoulam, 2002), analgesic (Zogopoulos et al.”
• Cannabis sativa: The Plant of the Thousand and One Molecules (2016, background): “Two recent reviews (Volkow et al., 2014; van Amsterdam et al., 2015) notably reported the adverse health effects linked to the use of natural Cannabis and synthetic cannabinoids, respectively.”