Cannabis' effects on body and mind targeted by British study - Colorado Springs Independent

Researchers successful Great Britain person launched a pioneering proceedings to survey the effects of cannabis connected the brain.

Scientists associated with the King’s College London Cannabis & Me task are recruiting 6,000 Londoners ages 18-35 successful 3 categories: those who presently usage cannabis, those who person utilized it less than 3 times and those who person ne'er tried it.

The DailyMailOnline reported Nov. 14 that those selected to enactment volition gain £50, the equivalent of astir $60 U.S.

The survey volition commencement with a 40-minute online survey astir users’ acquisition with the cause and wherefore they usage it. Everyone who completes the survey volition beryllium entered into a drafting for a £100 Amazon voucher.

A subgroup of those who instrumentality the survey volition beryllium selected for a face-to-face appraisal astatine the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience astatine King’s College. Those who implicit the appraisal volition beryllium paid £50.

A operation of DNA familial and epigenetics testing, intelligence and cognitive investigation and virtual world volition beryllium utilized to recognize the effects cannabis has connected users. Subjects volition acquisition much questioning, a humor trial and a virtual world script to observe their effect successful societal situations.

One country connected which researchers volition absorption is however the substance tin lend to paranoia.

Study person Dr. Marta Di Forti said the survey “aims to supply information and tools that tin marque physicians successful the U.K. and crossed the satellite much confident, wherever appropriate, successful prescribing cannabis safely.”

A abstracted portion of the survey volition measure radical receiving attraction for psychosis thought to beryllium associated with cannabis use.

Di Forti said researchers volition survey whether determination are biologic factors that summation susceptibility to processing psychosis aft cannabis usage and volition look astatine whether a screening trial could beryllium developed to place radical who tin safely usage cannabis for aesculapian oregon recreational purposes.

According to the Daily Mail, astir 17,000 radical successful the U.K. person been prescribed cannabis for conditions including Crohn’s disease, epilepsy, Parkinson’s illness and MS.

VA research

In the aftermath of the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act, which passed successful Congress Nov. 16 and was sent to President Joe Biden for signature, cannabis advocates are hoping to spot renewed involvement connected Capitol Hill successful SB21-1467, the VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act.

The bill, which was introduced successful the Senate successful April 2021, would necessitate the Department of Veterans Affairs to behaviour objective trials connected the effects of medicinal cannabis. The effects of medical-grade cannabis would beryllium studied connected the wellness outcomes of veterans diagnosed with chronic symptom and post-traumatic accent disorder.

The Senate Committee connected Veterans’ Affairs held hearings connected the measure successful June 2021, but it has languished since then.

Disabled American Veterans (DAV) backs the bill, which besides was introduced successful the House of Representatives successful April 2021, though the VA continues to propulsion backmost connected cannabis arsenic a attraction for PTSD.

“We bash what we tin erstwhile we find authorities that we tin enactment to fto our members cognize ... present is thing that is perchance bully for you oregon thing you person asked for that we deliberation is bully legislation, and beryllium definite to fto your legislators cognize that,” DAV Assistant National Legislative Director Marquis Barefield told Cincinnati TV News WCPO earlier this year.

The ears person it

Earlier this year, boxing fable Mike Tyson launched Mike Bites — ear-shaped edibles with a missing hunk that memorialized successful THC the infinitesimal when, during the 1997 heavyweight satellite rubric fight, Tyson spot his hostile Evander Holyfield’s ear.

The combat continued anyway, until Tyson took a wound retired of Holyfield’s different ear.

Now, evidently, determination are nary hard feelings — Holyfield has climbed backmost into the ringing to spouse with Tyson successful a caller THC-infused, gluten-free, vegan, ear-shaped edible called Holy Ears.

The archetypal merchandise is cherry-flavored, which Tyson jokes is the sensation of Holyfield’s ears. It volition beryllium produced by Carma Holdings, the 2 athletes’ caller brand, and sold connected the TYSON 2.0 online marketplace.

“Mike and I person a agelong past of contention and respect for 1 another,” Holyfield says successful a quality merchandise announcing his caller venture. “Back then, we didn’t recognize that adjacent arsenic powerfulness athletes, we were besides successful a batch of pain. Now, astir 20 years later, we person the accidental to stock the medicine we truly needed passim our careers.

“It’s a privilege to reunite with my erstwhile hostile and present long-time person and crook years of fights and knockouts into a concern that tin marque a affirmative interaction and heal people.”