Does long-term marijuana use affect IQ?
The study is based on a thousand New Zealand cases that were studied from ages one to thirty-eight. One report suggested that youngsters exposed to marijuana use for many years show a declining IQ. That was in 2012 but in 2016 the same ASU assistant professor Madeline Meier says that long term use does not affect physical health. Besides bad teeth, it appears that no problems were found. Lung function does not decline, and inflammation and metabolic health do not worsen. Yet such users face difficult socio-economic life conditions. Considering their credit and debt scores and government assistance, one reason for weakening social class could be imprisonment. On the other hand, non-users were found on a higher class than their parents. The conclusion seems to be that physical health is not worsened by midlife but psychotic conditions and weakened cognitive skills may occur.
Tweed in Ontario would target marijuana chocolates
A licensed marijuana business, Tweed wants to make candy. The company president is excited about the idea if the sale of pot edibles becomes legal. They manufacture cannabis oil and dried stuff, and would like to venture into making cannabis-based drinks too. What is strange is that marijuana may be sold alongside alcohol in a non-medical sale in the future. Tweed now sells cupcake and muffin mixes to which cannabis oil may be added by customers who carry out the baking. Since the cannabis culture is comparatively new, people do not know it well, and consume too much of the drug through delicious edibles. Meanwhile, Health Canada avoids edibles because of the temptations for children. Colorado insists on child resistant packets and labels indicating the constituents. Nutritional High is a Canadian company that plans to manufacture cannabis-based candy, gummy and chocolate in Colorado. NH is not waiting for permission.
An international legal cannabis culture?
According to legal scholars Piet Hein van Kempen and Masha Fedorova of Radboud University in the Netherlands, legalizing cannabis for recreational needs is possible under human rights tenets. Such demands usually cite concerns for health and the struggle against criminal elements. The research reveals that such legalization would safeguard human rights in greater ways than the total ban that exists in many countries today. The UN Drugs Convention does not allow such an approach to the regulated legislation for the growing and sale of cannabis. Further, five conditions are cited that could be followed in the general interest for legalization.
