CONTEXT In 2012, Washington State and Colorado legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and Uruguay, beginning in 2014, will become the first country to legalize the sale and distribution of marijuana. The challenge facing policymakers and public health advocates is reducing the harms of an ineffective, costly, and discriminatory "war on drugs" while preventing another public health catastr...

ABSTRACT The legalization of cannabis has been a trend to be done by countries because it is seen as beneficial in many ways. Marijuana drug which less negative impacts, or can said “manageable” hence receiving much support from the society legalized country. Cannabis legalization, either medical non marijuana, believed positively impact welfare society. Uruguay and Canada are first second mari...

Historically, the products of Cannabis sativa (or marijuana) have been used in socioreligious rites and for medicinal and recreational purposes. Multiple medical purposes, related or not to religious rituals, were prevalent in the ancient world (Assyria, Egypt, Rome, Greece and China) and India (54). Marijuana was used less widely in Western Europe and North America (54,55). Because reliable cl...

Plants of the Cannabis species, commonly known as marijuana, contain numerous psychoactive components, including the primary psychoactive compound D-9-tetrahyrdocannabinol (THC). The World Health Organization (WHO) describes cannabis as the most widely used, cultivated, and trafficked illicit drug in the world, with an estimated 147 million people using the drug annually. Consistent with worldw...

To date, 27 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws easing marijuana control. This paper examines the relationship between the legalization of medical marijuana, depenalization of possession, and the incidence of non-drug crime. Using state panel data from 1970 to 2012, results show evidence of 4–12% reductions in robberies, larcenies, and burglaries due to the legalization of medi...

G ot pot? Colorado and Washington do. In the wake of last November’s election, the two states face an enormous and once-unthinkable challenge. They must transform the marijuana black market into an above-ground, regulated and taxed commercial enterprise. Ballot measures approved by voters in Colorado and Washington create the most permissive pot laws in the nation. They not only explicitly allo...

Marijuana smoke can cause thermal injury, and since legalization and increased use of marijuana in our society, differentiating, diagnosing, and managing this condition have become mandatory. A case of a 28-year-old male with Quincke's disease secondary to marijuana inhalation is presented.

“Severe pain” is the most common reason for medicinal herbal cannabis use, with arthritis and musculoskeletal pain cited as the most prevalent specific medical condition (1,2). Eighty percent of marijuana users in a US pain clinic report use for myofascial pain, whereas up to one-third of persons in population studies in the UK and Australia reported use for treatment of arthritis pain (1–3). S...