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Adolescents, their parents, and other family members are the focus of comprehensive preventive and control programs in schools and the community. These effective actions help promote children's development of a positive sense of self-worth and sufficiency, to stop adolescent risk behavior, and to help them build strong, healthy coping skills. [21]
As cannabis and its many products become more mainstream within the changing culture, children and teens are exposed to more, whether through social media, influencers or the internet in general.
Kids got their hands on a lot of cannabis edibles during the pandemic, according to a new study. There was a 1,375% spike in reports to poison centers involving children under six from 2017 to ...
More young children are getting sick from inadvertently eating marijuana edibles, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics. Reports of young children accidentally eating ...
The use of cannabis relieves the pain and is seen as a “healthier” alternative because it is less addictive than drugs such as morphine and Oxycontin. [3] Other pain-relieving medicines that are opioids tend to cause nausea and vomiting, while cannabis reduces these side effects.
Cannabis users have shown decreased reactivity to dopamine, suggesting a possible link to a dampening of the reward system of the brain and an increase in negative emotion and addiction severity. [11] Cannabis users can develop tolerance to the effects of THC. Tolerance to the behavioral and psychological effects of THC has been demonstrated in ...
“While cannabis is often perceived as harmless or even beneficial for certain medical conditions, this study underscores potential negative cognitive effects, particularly on working memory and ...
A dried cannabis flower. The short-term effects of cannabis are caused by many chemical compounds in the cannabis plant, including 113 [clarification needed] different cannabinoids, such as tetrahydrocannabinol, and 120 terpenes, [1] which allow its drug to have various psychological and physiological effects on the human body.