Medical Cannabis: U.S. Study Finds 6.9% Fewer Absences from Work
✦ New CED Clinical Relevance #67 Notable Clinical Interest Emerging findings or policy developments worth monitoring closely. PolicyAnxietyPainResearchMental HealthSafetyDosing Why This Matters This study matters for clinicians and their patients…
Ghana Announces Expanded Cannabis Research Collaboration
✦ New CED Clinical Relevance #67 Notable Clinical Interest Emerging findings or policy developments worth monitoring closely. PolicyNeurologyCBDResearchSafetyPainAnxiety Why This Matters This article signifies a significant development in the…
Daily Cannabis News Brief for 9/4/2026
✦ New CED Clinical Relevance #67 Notable Clinical Interest Emerging findings or policy developments worth monitoring closely. NeurologyCBDResearchAnxietySleepSafetyPolicy Why This Matters This article matters to clinicians and their patients as it…
Medical Cannabis Consultations – GP & Medical Centre in Camberwell
✦ New CED Clinical Relevance #67 Notable Clinical Interest Emerging findings or policy developments worth monitoring closely. SleepPainAnxietyMental HealthPolicyDosingResearch Why This Matters This article matters for clinicians and their patients…
Four Cannabis News Stories Worth Watching on September 5
Four cannabis news stories cover Colorado product safety, ATF medical-marijuana guidance, Arizona testing oversight, and Florida hemp timing. The shared theme is implementation, not proof of treatment benefit. Patients and clinicians should read each…
Why a Teenage Brain Is Not a Small Adult Brain: Cannabis, CB1 Receptors, and Cortical Development
Discussions of cannabis and the adolescent brain usually stop at the assertion that it harms development, without saying what the mechanism is or how firm the evidence behind it is. The endocannabinoid system helps organize cortical maturation, and a…
The CBD Drug Interactions That Are Actually Documented, and the Doses at Which They Happen
CBD and prescription drug interactions are usually described without the two details that decide whether a warning applies to you: which drug, and at what cannabidiol dose. The interactions with real human evidence behind them involve clobazam,…
Does a Cannabis Tolerance Break Work? What Brain Imaging Shows About CB1 Receptors, Recovery, and the Limits of the Evidence
Brain imaging in chronic daily cannabis smokers found CB1 receptor binding about 20 percent lower in cortical regions, and that reduction rose again after abstinence, which is the real biology behind a cannabis tolerance break. Two strong studies…
How the Body Switches Off Its Own Cannabinoids, and What Happened When a Drug Company Tried to Stop It
Endocannabinoid degradation runs through two enzymes: FAAH, which converts anandamide to arachidonic acid and ethanolamine, and MAGL, which converts 2-AG to arachidonic acid and glycerol and handles about 85 percent of brain 2-AG hydrolysis. Blocking…
What the Liver Does to an Edible Before You Feel Anything
When cannabis is swallowed, the liver converts a large share of the THC into 11-hydroxy-THC before it ever reaches the brain, which is why edibles are slow to start and long to finish. Controlled human studies put blood concentrations of THC and…
