I bet youve got opinions about marijuana; everybody does.<\/p>\n
I bet youve got opinions about marijuana; everybody does. <\/p>\n
But I also bet you dont have much knowledge about it; few of us do. <\/p>\n
How addictive is dope? Does it have health benefits and if so, which ones, and in what context? How about health drawbacks, physical or mental? <\/p>\n
I dont know and neither do you, and no wonder. The effects of bogarting that joint (to use terminology from my youth) can be tough to pin down; thats true even for a man who has done at least as much of that pinning-down as anybody in New Hampshire. <\/p>\n
When youre talking about smoked marijuana, its not easy to do good research. Its tough to interpret. Its tough to run the studies. Its tough to have a placebo. Its tough to get people in your studies that arent already smoking marijuana. Its tough to try to dose it, said Alan Budney, a professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, who has written lots of papers about cannabis use disorders in adults and adolescents. <\/p>\n
But New Hampshire is ramping up to allow medical marijuana, so it behooves us as residents of the state to know more. <\/p>\n
Happily, Budneys going to help us learn. <\/p>\n
He is one of two panelists who will answer all your questions about the science of marijuana at Science Cafe New Hampshire in Nashua, a week from Wednesday, Sept. 17. Stacy Gruber, director of the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core at McLean Hospitals Brain Imaging Center in Cambridge, will also be there; her lab has done a slew of research into the results of substance use and abuse, especially cannabis. <\/p>\n
As always, I will moderate the free, two-hour session, which starts at 6 p.m. at Killarneys Irish Pub. <\/p>\n
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