This randomized clinical trial investigates the accuracy of field sobriety tests administered by law enforcement officers to assess functional impairment and driving performance among individuals who have smoked cannabis.
Question
How accurate are field sobriety tests (FSTs) in identifying acute Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) impairment?
Findings
In this randomized clinical trial of 184 cannabis users randomized to THC or placebo, law enforcement officers classified 81.0% and 49.2%, respectively, as FST impaired, and officers suspected that 99.2% of FST-impaired participants received THC. Driving simulator performance was associated with select FSTs.
Meaning
In this study, FSTs differentiated between THC- and placebo-exposed participants; however, the substantial overlap of FST impairment between groups and the high frequency at which FST impairment was suspected to be due to THC suggest that absent other indicators, FSTs alone may be insufficient to identify THC-specific driving impairment.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. Surprisingly, for the past half-century, the NIH has paid Israeli researchers millions of dollars to study the effects of medical cannabis. What has been the return on investment for that long-standing partnership? The American people have the right to know, right?
We live in a pivotal time in the cannabis revolution, once not too long ago under the gavel of Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General. His personal vendetta against the plant was so biased and aggressive, it almost seems surreal. “Good people don’t smoke Marijuana“. Also:
“I mean, we need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized. It ought not to be minimized, that it’s in fact a very real danger. Lives will be impacted. Families will be broken up. Children will be damaged because of the difficulties their parents have, and people may be psychologically impacted the rest of their lives with marijuana.”
Chuck Rosenberg, former head and current acting administrator at the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) thinks that “Medical cannabis is a joke.”
When there are 2.3 million patients in the US relying on the plant as their medicine (legally) [20], we need the best evidence there is to warn about dangers, but also teach about the benefits! Just recently I witnessed a child with an active seizure receive an intranasal spray that was cannabis-based. The seizure stopped within seconds. Medical cannabis is not a joke. There have been tremendous gains in understanding the medicinal properties of this plant in all of its divine molecular artistry. As of this year, several pharmaceutical “cannabis-like” synthetic drugs—all in the name of patents—have been approved with more than a half dozen to follow. And yet, the actual plant remains highly illegal from a federal vista.
Take Insys Therapeutics, for example. A pharmaceutical company that was one of the chief financial backers of the opposition to marijuana legalization in Arizona recently, received preliminary approval from the FDA for Syndros, a synthetic marijuana drug.
This begs the question:
ARE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES EXPLOITING THE FEDERAL HEALTHCARE AGENCIES?
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Cannabis produces a variety cannabinoid compounds many of which have not been detected in any other plant.
Most of them are present at very low levels, especially in commercial cannabis products, making it difficult for scientists to accurately detect them.
Cannabis synthesizes several cannabinoid acids . These acids are created, usually by heat, to yield the compounds that most are after (THC or CBD). But in addition to THCA and CBDA, there are number of related cannabinoids that can be produced by Cannabis.
These are:
Click the item to read in depth detail from the .gov chemical database.
A scientific article on analyticalcannabis.com points out the main differences between Cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
It goes-
Of the at least 113 cannabinoids that have been isolated to date, these two are undoubtedly the most well-known and, the most well researched. Cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) are both naturally occurring compounds found in plants in the cannabis genus. Known as phytocannabinoids, these compounds interact with CB1 and CB2 receptors found in the endocannabinoid system present in all mammalian species.
CBD was first isolated in 1940 whilst THC was isolated in 1964 by the preeminent cannabis scientist Raphael Mechoulam. At the most fundamental level, THC and CBD are different because of their differing physiological effects. CBD is non-psychotropic and therefore does not illicit a “high” whereas THC is psychotropic and is the only known cannabis-derived compound to illicit a “high”. Here we look at some of the key differences, and similarities, between CBD and THC.
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