Some of the patients reported a mixture of THC and nicotine; and some reported vaping nicotine alone. No one substance has been identified in all of the samples tested, and it is unclear if the illnesses are related to one single compound. Until more details are known, FDA officials have warned people not to use any vaping products bought on the street, and they warn against modifying any products purchased in stores.
They are also asking people and health professionals to report any adverse effects. The CDC has posted an information page for consumers. Marijuana use has also been linked to other mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts among teens. However, study findings have been mixed.
While it's possible to fail a drug test after inhaling secondhand marijuana smoke, it's unlikely. Studies show that very little THC is released in the air when a person exhales. Research findings suggest that, unless people are in an enclosed room, breathing in lots of smoke for hours at close range, they aren't likely to fail a drug test.
Similarly, it's unlikely that secondhand marijuana smoke would give nonsmoking people in a confined space a high from passive exposure. Studies have shown that people who don't use marijuana report only mild effects of the drug from a nearby smoker, under extreme conditions breathing in lots of marijuana smoke for hours in an enclosed room.
More research is needed to know if secondhand marijuana smoke has similar health risks as secondhand tobacco smoke. A recent study on rats suggests that secondhand marijuana smoke can do as much damage to the heart and blood vessels as secondhand tobacco smoke. What they do know is that the toxins and tar found in marijuana smoke could affect vulnerable people, such as children or people with asthma.
Compared to those who don't use marijuana, those who frequently use large amounts report the following:. People also report less academic and career success. For example, marijuana use is linked to a higher likelihood of dropping out of school. Use of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana are likely to come before use of other drugs. For example, when rodents are repeatedly exposed to THC when they're young, they later show an enhanced response to other addictive substances—such as morphine or nicotine—in the areas of the brain that control reward, and they're more likely to show addiction-like behaviors.
Although these findings support the idea of marijuana as a "gateway drug," the majority of people who use marijuana don't go on to use other "harder" drugs. Read more about marijuana as a gateway drug in our Marijuana Research Report. An overdose occurs when a person uses enough of the drug to produce life-threatening symptoms or death. There are no reports of teens or adults dying from marijuana alone. However, some people who use marijuana can feel some very uncomfortable side effects, especially when using marijuana products with high THC levels.
This inconsistent approach to regulation is most apparent in the United States, where, for example, one can take a road trip to Colorado — where cannabis was legalized recreationally in — and purchase the drug at one of the local streetside dispensaries as long as they have an ID. However, immediately after crossing the border into Kansas, Colorado's border state where the drug is illegal, pot-smokers can be arrested and charged with thousand-dollar fines or jail time.
If caught again, they could face even heftier jail sentences. It seems hard to construct a solid moral opinion on a substance that becomes illegal after crossing a border. If the government is acting in our best interest, but some governments deem the drug permissible for consumption while others send its users to jail, how do we know what's right? Read more here: Cannabis capitalists scrutinize future of UK's fledgling industry.
The United States isn't the only nation telling a contradictory tale between reality and regulation. In Europe, home of the highest global concentrations of teenage pot-smokers, it's up to member states to decide their drug policies.
Like the US, there isn't a blanket European Union-wide legislation for cannabis. So, while in the Netherlands one can sit in coffee shops and smoke weed as long as their racing heart desires, in Hungary, for example, they could be slapped with legal penalties involving jail time should they decide to light up in public.
We have to be careful when making these comparisons, however, according to Thomas Pietschmann, a UN drug researcher and co-author of the report. He said that although the situation may appear comparable between European states and US states, it's a different story.
Despite what most people think, weed isn't entirely legal in the Netherlands and can only be sold and smoked in designated coffee shops. It is decriminalized, however, so people can't go to jail for smoking a joint on the street. The purpose of the shops isn't to ignite interest in the drug, but rather to dilute it. Since its decriminalization in the s, weed use in the Netherlands has actually plateaued. The Dutch government has made frequent pointed attempts to quell the spread of the drug, banning its advertisement and, at one point, restricting its sale to only Dutch citizens over 18 when the onset of "drug tourists" grew too annoying for Dutch citizens.
This decriminalization doesn't differ much from the majority of European Union member state policies, most of which took the form of "harm reduction" after the AIDS outbreak in the s. While the United States criminalized most forms of drugs, member states such as Switzerland led policy efforts aimed at harm reduction. These efforts took shape in the form of areas such as Zurich's "needle park", where the government allowed heroin addicts to shoot up in a controlled environment. In the United States, Pietschmann said, drug regulators have been far more extreme.
In the s and 70s, attitudes toward pot were fairly liberal, with loose regulations and a turn-a-blind-eye attitude. This changed in the s with President Ronald Reagan's "war on drugs," which implemented zero-tolerance policies in which anyone caught with drugs of any variety could be jailed. In the s, with President Bill Clinton's prevention-centered approach to drug reform, the drugs were destigmatized and acceptance toward cannabis steadily grew.
In , campaigns for the legalization of medical cannabis emerged. Medical marijuana was legalized and weed started becoming decriminalized overall, leading to lower public perceptions of risk. Media contributed to this culture of weed acceptance, Pietschmann said.
The United States has since found itself host to a bustling weed economy armed with shiny marketing and heavy pro-cannabis lobbying forces. Read more here: Police probe rapper who posted about airport drugs stash on Instagram. The contradictions between reality and regulation may remind one of the conversations they had with their equally-stoned roommates while taking their first-year philosophy courses. HILL: Cannabis is different than alcohol, because with alcohol, you can use once a week, three times a week, and it can be a problem.
You can have eight drinks once a week and get into a whole bunch of trouble. Cannabis is a little different in the sense that the people who run into trouble are using it pretty much every day, multiple times a day for the most part. HILL: They are. The onset — what will bring you into my office — is different. People who are using cannabis are not going to knock off a CVS to fuel their habit. But when you talk to them, other details are often the same. One unique thing about cannabis is that on the same day, I may have somebody who is 26, smoking four times a day, graduated from a local elite university, and not making it like they want to be making it.
Then, the next hour, I may see a year-old woman who has chronic back issues and tried multiple medications, multiple injections, and wants to use cannabis for her pain.
Are you going to dismiss that or let that new information shape what you think about cannabis? You have to be open-minded in an area that is continuing to evolve. What is the truth of the positive health benefits? I would prefer that we use FDA-approved medications when possible. They are much safer, and you can be sure of the purity and potency.
But there is evidence to support the use of cannabis and cannabinoids for a handful of medical conditions. That is dwarfed by the number of conditions for which people are actually using it, but the evidence of benefit is not zero. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors.
But in order for experts to develop effective interventions, they need to understand exactly why young adults use marijuana. Based on research, here are some possible reasons why a young adult may smoke or ingest marijuana:. Peer pressure is an obvious reason that young adults begin smoking marijuana. As a person adjusts to high school, college, or a new job or vocation, he or she is forming new friendships and sorting out personal identity and ways of socializing.
The bottom line here is that during a vulnerable time of transition, a person's social environment can be particularly influential when it comes to experimenting with marijuana.
This does not mean that teens are using marijuana because they are pressured to do so by their friends. Instead, the normalization of drug use within their social group makes it more likely that they will use it as well. That peer group, however, is not limited to their friends at school, but also to members of their own families.
In other words, when a young adult witnesses older members of their family using marijuana, that can be a big influence. Besides peers and family, pop culture is another means of peer pressure.
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