Cannabis Research
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Plant Compounds and Asthma: Where CBD Fits
Could a plant-derived compound help control the inflammation that makes breathing difficult in asthma? Answering that question requires more than showing that a substance changes an immune signal. Researchers also need to establish whether it reaches the airways, improves their…
Alex Morgan
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CBD Liposomes Show Promise Against Radiation Lung Injury
Radiotherapy can damage cancer cells, but healthy tissue surrounding a tumour can also be affected. When radiation reaches the chest, the lungs may develop inflammation known as radiation pneumonitis. Finding ways to protect those lungs without weakening cancer treatment is…
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Eye Tracking Offers New Clues About Cannabis Attention Bias
A cannabis photograph can attract attention for many reasons: familiarity, curiosity, personal experience, or an urge to consume. Understanding which explanation applies is challenging, especially when the research tool captures only a quick button press.A new Dalhousie University study compared…
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Could CBD Reduce Stress-Linked Memory Deficits?
Stress during adolescence can influence how the brain develops, with consequences that sometimes persist into adulthood. Researchers are investigating whether those effects can be reduced by supporting the circuits involved in learning and memory. A new mouse study places cannabidiol,…
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CBD Boosts Sexual Motivation in Male Rats, Study Finds
Could CBD influence sexual desire without producing the intoxicating effects associated with THC? A new animal study offers a reason to investigate that possibility, while showing why the answer is unlikely to come down to simply taking more cannabidiol.Researchers found…
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Prenatal THC Exposure Linked to Child Attention Problems
Cannabis research during pregnancy often produces headlines that sound more certain than the evidence behind them. For parents, that can turn an already difficult subject into a choice between alarm and reassurance, with little guidance about what researchers actually measured.A…
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Cannabis and Palliative Care: Promise for Older Adults?
For an older person receiving palliative care, pain relief can mean being comfortable enough to share a meal, hold a conversation, or rest without constant distress. Those everyday goals help explain why cannabis continues to attract interest, even while questions…
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Does Disclosing Cannabis Use Affect ER Opioid Prescribing?
For someone arriving at an emergency department with a painful injury, mentioning cannabis use may come with an uncomfortable question: will this change how seriously the clinician takes their pain or what medication they receive?A new study offers a cautiously…
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How Cannabinoids Alter the Brain’s Threat Response
Cannabis can feel calming in one situation and unsettling in another. That apparent contradiction raises a useful question: what changes inside the brain when cannabinoid exposure makes a threatening experience feel harder to approach?A new study published in Nature Communications…
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Can Attachment-Based Therapy Help Teens With Cannabis Use?
Teen Cannabis Use Disorder: Why Emotional Support MattersWhen an adolescent struggles to control cannabis use, the most visible issue is consumption. The less visible questions may be just as important: What happens before they use? What feelings are they trying…
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Endometriosis Symptoms, Negative Tests, and Cannabis Use
For someone living with persistent pelvic pain, a diagnosis can offer an explanation and a clearer path toward treatment. But what happens when surgery and tissue testing do not confirm suspected endometriosis? The symptoms can remain, along with questions about…
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CBN Under UV Light: What It Means for Cannabis Stability
CBN often appears in explanations of what happens when cannabis ages. THC can degrade into cannabinol, making CBN part of the familiar story about changing cannabinoid profiles. But that story does not necessarily end with CBN.A new study in Tetrahedron…
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Edible THC Study Raises Questions About Early Brain Development
Edibles change how cannabis enters the body, but they do not remove its active compounds. That distinction matters during pregnancy, when avoiding smoke can easily be mistaken for avoiding every concern associated with cannabis exposure.A new study in rhesus macaques,…
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Can Spider Silk Proteins Improve Hemp Yarn?
Hemp has a long history as a textile crop, but making it competitive in modern manufacturing requires more than growing strong stalks. Manufacturers need yarn that behaves consistently as it passes through machines and becomes fabric. Natural variations in cultivation…
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How Cannabis Drying Shapes Terpenes and Flower Quality
A cannabis harvest can look exceptional and still disappoint by the time it reaches a consumer. Its aroma may fade, its texture may become brittle, or its microbial counts may rise. Genetics and cultivation matter, but the final product also…
