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What Emergency Departments Tell Us About Cannabis
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Linda Mintle
I just read a report in Medscape about the fall out of legalized cannabis in Colorado emergency departments. Emergency departments and hospitals are seeing an increase in ED visits following legalization. Those visits reveal an increase in mental illness including psychosis, suicide and other substance abuse. One of the concerns with regular use is that the brain, involved in…
Update On Marijuana for Pain
By
Linda Mintle
Recently, I attended a conference on chronic pain and treatments. A woman in the audience made a passionate case for the use of marijuana for pain relief. Her source was friends who used it and reported that it helped. The conference leader, associated with a major university, responded to her question about the effectiveness of marijuana for…
Lady GaGa Pushes the Envelope Yet Again
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Linda Mintle
Lady GaGa is such a mixed bag. She is talented singer, but so disturbing at times. And this is one of those times. One moment she is helping children stand up to bullying, the next she is smoking marihuana on stage at her concert in Amsterdam! And her latest antic is all over You Tube…
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