{"id":7136,"date":"2017-01-12T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2358162&amp;preview_id=2358162"},"modified":"2017-01-12T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:28:00","slug":"massive-marijuana-research-report-details-knowledge-base-with-eye-on-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/massive-marijuana-research-report-details-knowledge-base-with-eye-on-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive marijuana research report details knowledge base with eye on future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/massive-marijuana-research-report-details-knowledge-base-with-eye-on-future\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>As marijuana legalization becomes entrenched across America, what is known about the plant\u2019s health benefits and adverse effects is rapidly gaining urgency.<\/p>\n<p>In the first comprehensive review by American researchers in decades, their assessment of 10,000 studies since 1999 quantified the weight of research evidence and found cannabis has legitimate medicinal benefits for a variety of ailments, but also has been shown as a contributor to certain mental health issues and, to some degree, has a role as a gateway drug, according to the report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/\">National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those are among nearly 100 conclusions reached by the U.S. scientific academy and released Thursday in a <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalacademies.org\/hmd\/reports\/2017\/health-effects-of-cannabis-and-cannabinoids.aspx\">massive report on marijuana research to-date<\/a> that includes directives for future study \u2014 notably that more robust exploration is needed across a wide array of public health-focused areas.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>\u201cWe know very little about the high-potency cannabis that people are smoking; we know very little about the different ways people are using (cannabis),\u201d said Ziva Cooper, a committee member and assistant professor of clinical neurobiology at Columbia University Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>The review of more than 10,000 scientific abstracts is documented in a 400-page report: \u201cThe Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research.\u201d In cataloging and assessing research as a whole, the report provides clarity on the current knowledge base and also shines a spotlight on what\u2019s lacking, particularly how cannabis is used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/tag\/epilepsy\/\">treating epilepsy<\/a> and other conditions such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2016\/07\/26\/medical-marijuana-research-ptsd-medication\/59050\/\">post-traumatic stress disorder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/01\/12\/marijuana-research-review-united-states-health-benefits-risks-future\/71204\/\">Read the full story at thecannabist.co.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As marijuana legalization becomes entrenched across America, what is known about the plant&#8217;s health benefits and adverse effects is rapidly gaining urgency. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6892,77,6826,56,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6893,2655,6828,2636,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}