Top 10 Cannabis Myths Debunked By A Harvard Doctor

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZyNwN9jA6o

 

”Day In Day Out” (Mega the Podcast) (satire)

In this satire of a megachurch, Youth Pastor Grey confronts teen Day about his pot-smoking. It doesn't go as planned, and the Youth Pastor gets more than he bargained for.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-82sum-2e0530e2

Cannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions, says review

But a trade body insisted cannabis did relieve the symptoms of anxiety and post-traumatic stress. 

Mike Morgan-Giles, the chief executive of the Cannabis Industry Council, said it was vital that patients with psychiatric conditions could access the treatment they needed. 

He added: "Real-world evidence including findings from T21 consistently shows that medical cannabis reduces symptoms for patients with anxiety and post-traumatic stress. 

"Regrettably, this latest paper adds more heat than light and does not adequately reflect how clinical prescribing is undertaken in the UK."…

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/16/cannabis-inot-effective-treatment-for-common-mental-health-conditions-review

 

Trump’s cannabis order will still leave users at risk of prosecution, experts say

Justice department is pushing to pursue simple possession cases, and ICE uses cannabis offenses to speed deportation…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/trump-cannabis-executive-order-reschedule

 

‘California sober’: marijuana may help you drink less, study finds

Brown University researchers run joint-and-drink study to find alcohol consumption falls after smoking cannabis…

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/19/california-sober-marijuana-alcohol-study

 

Can marijuana help you sleep? Here’s what experts say. - The Washington Post

Participants with sleep troubles who used CBD slept better than those given a placebo, according to a 2024 randomized clinical trial…

Adding low doses of THC to CBD may help. In a 2021 trial, participants who received a cannabinoid extract formulation containing CBD, CBN and THC had an improvement in insomnia symptoms, reducing scores on the Insomnia Severity Index by an average of 5 points compared with the placebo.

(All four of these clinical trials received funding from cannabis companies.)…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/10/21/marijuana-weed-cannabis-sleep-cbd-thc/

Cannabis use could double risk of heart deaths, study suggests | Cannabis | The Guardian

The researchers acknowledged several limitations to their systematic review and meta analysis. There was a moderate to high risk of bias in most of the included studies, largely because of lack of information on missing data and imprecise measures of cannabis exposure. Most of them were observational and several used the same data...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/17/cannabis-use-could-double-risk-of-heart-deaths-study-suggests 

 

Medical cannabis shows potential to fight cancer, largest-ever study finds

The largest ever study investigating medical cannabis as a treatment for cancer, published this week in Frontiers in Oncology, found overwhelming scientific support for cannabis's potential to treat cancer symptoms and potentially fight the course of the disease itself...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/medical-cannabis-cancer-study 

 

Nearly 43,000 people commented on the DEA reclassifying cannabis. What did they say?

Analysis shows 59% of commenters want the proposed rule change to go further and for marijuana to be decriminalized…

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/27/dea-cannabis-classification

How cannabis and psilocybin might help some of the 50 million Americans who are experiencing chronic pain

Cannabis, also known as marijuana, is an ancient medicinal plant. Cannabis-based medicines have been used for at least 5,000 years for applications such as arthritis and pain control during and after surgery…

https://theconversation.com/how-cannabis-and-psilocybin-might-help-some-of-the-50-million-americans-who-are-experiencing-chronic-pain-225887

Could cannabis help you sleep? | Jennifer Walsh | TEDxKingsParkSalon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSagAz3X68k

Cannabis use landing more young people in emergency departments, study finds | CNN

While the report didn't look specifically at the reasons for the increase in cannabis-related youth ED visits, it proposes a variety of possible causes, including using cannabis as a "coping mechanism for pandemic-related stressors" and increased availability of highly concentrated THC products...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/13/health/cannabis-use-landing-more-young-people-in-emergency-departments-study-finds/index.html

How Cannabis (Marijuana) Affects the Brain & Body | Dr. Andrew Huberman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCbqfBAhmPY

Can Cannabis Help With Sleep? What Experts Say - The New York Times

That being said, researchers from one review of 26 studies that was published in 2020 reported that there was "promising preliminary evidence" that cannabinoid therapies, including THC and CBD, should be investigated as possible treatments for sleep issues like insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome and nightmares related to post-traumatic stress disorder...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/well/cannabis-weed-sleep-aid.html

Cannabis holds promise for pain management, reducing the need for opioid painkillers – a neuropharmacology expert explains how

"I am a neuropharmacology scientist who studies both opioids and cannabinoids as they relate to pain treatment and substance abuse. My research focuses on the development of drug compounds that can provide chronic pain relief without the potential for overuse and without the tapering off of effectiveness that often accompanies traditional pain medications."

https://theconversation.com/cannabis-holds-promise-for-pain-management-reducing-the-need-for-opioid-painkillers-a-neuropharmacology-expert-explains-how-186906

Marijuana use during pregnancy may harm children's mental health

The impact of cannabis use was seen in the middle of the first trimester. Use of it earlier in the pregnancy — before the moms discovered they were pregnant — did not appear to have an impact on the risk of the children developing behavior issues, Baranger said. He suspects that is because cannabinoid receptors haven't developed in the fetal brains yet...

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/marijuana-use-pregnancy-may-harm-childrens-mental-health-rcna47280

Cannabis may contain heavy metals and affect consumer health, study finds | Penn State University

Research team proposes strategies for growers to avoid heavy metals in their cannabis crops…

https://www.psu.edu/news/story/cannabis-may-contain-heavy-metals-and-affect-consumer-health-study-finds/

Stoners coming out – beyond the marijuana monster myths | David Schmader...

In this funny, informative talk, David Schmader makes the case for thinking more broadly about what a marijuana user is and can be.
https://youtu.be/mfXGpVi-YRs

The surprising connection between cannabis and mind-body health | Elise ...

This empowering and thought provoking talk challenges the standard definition of a ‘healthy lifestyle’, examines the impact that the mind has on the body, and shines light on how and why cannabis works for a variety of medical conditions. Elise Keller explains how the biological mechanism responsible for how cannabis works in our body - the endocannabinoid system - could have us all reconsidering what it means to stay physically healthy. Elise Keller is the founder of Rise CannaCoaching and Rise.Thrive.Soar –- an online breast cancer community group for women who are learning to support their endocannabinoid system during cancer treatment and beyond. Elise started Rise after experiencing first hand how difficult it is to get sound, meaningful and evidence based information about how to use cannabis as a cancer patient The further she fell into cannabis medicine, the more it became evident to her that cannabis was in fact a gateway drug after all - a gateway to connecting to a new understanding of whole health, and what it means to live a healthy lifestyle...
https://youtu.be/J42pmHV8ZEk

Weed withdrawal: More than half of people using medical cannabis for pain experience withdrawal symptoms

... Cannabis withdrawal symptoms usually go away within one to two weeks after use is stopped as the body adjusts back to its own natural production of cannabinoids. Unlike withdrawal from some psychoactive substances – such as alcohol – cannabis withdrawal is not life threatening or medically dangerous...

https://theconversation.com/weed-withdrawal-more-than-half-of-people-using-medical-cannabis-for-pain-experience-withdrawal-symptoms-153841