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The Science on Marijuana and Psychosis
Dr. Christine Miller, molecular neuroscientist and schizophrenia researcher explains the connection between cannabis use and psychosis. Schizophrenia is when psychosis becomes permanent.
Dr. Christine Miller explains that you don’t need to lace your marijuana with anything, it is the main actor that causes psychosis. Learn more at Momsstrong.org
Dr. Kenn Finn, pain medicine expert speaks to Catholic Physicians of Houston
Implications of Cannabis as Medicine: Lessons From Colorado Kenneth Finn, MD Address to the Houston Texas Catholic Healthcare Professionals Society on Medical Marijuana in Colorado. What legalization has bought, what we know and what we do not know about Medical Marijuana.
Dr. Sharon Levy: Effects of Marijuana on Youth
Sharon Levy, MD, MPH is Director, Adolescent Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) and Assistant Professor in Pediatrics
Dr. Brad Roberts, a Pueblo native and emergency room doctor, speaks to Smart Colorado about the misconceptions youth and young adults have around marijuana and it’s impacts on their developing brains.
Dr. Brad Roberts, a Pueblo native and emergency room doctor, speaks to Smart Colorado about returning to his hometown to find how marijuana has impacted his community and the Pueblo hospitals.
Dr. Brad Roberts, a Pueblo native and emergency room doctor, speaks to Smart Colorado about the experiences he has witnessed first hand in the Pueblo Emergency Room and what options patients have after they are released.
Dr. Brad Roberts, a Pueblo native and emergency room doctor, speaks to Smart Colorado about the correlation between ultra-potent pot and psychosis.
San Diego Doctor Reports on Marijuana Poisoning
Dr. Lev is the Medical Director of Emergency Medicine at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego. She describes how everyday she treats daily marijuana poisoning: from cyclical vomiting syndrome- a condition resulting in terrible wretching (vomiting) and severe abdominal pain caused by regular marijuana use, she treats someone in acute psychosis and agitation associated with marijuana use. Dr Lev has treated cancer patients who ate a marijuana brownie thinking it would help with nausea from chemotherapy, only to land an admission to the hospital for chest pain and palpitations; and the most reprehensible consequence from marijuana is when Dr Lev has to place a child on life support for marijuana ingestion.
Dr. Lev is the director of operations of the Scripps Mercy Emergency Department, San Diego campus. She has been practicing medicine at the hospital since 1993, was board certified in emergency medicine in 1995 and re-certified in 2005.
Cost of Addiction
Catherine Antley, M.D., speaks about the true cost of marijuana addiction.
Marijuana can cause psychosis, suicides, and violence. Dr. Catherine Antley describes the science that supports THC as a causal factor for psychosis. Then, Smart Colorado records a testimony from a Pueblo Colorado ER physician, Dr. Brad Roberts. Dr. Roberts describes the psychosis he’s seen in the ER and the devastating impacts it causes the community of Pueblo Colorado.
Dr. Catherine Antley’s series on Costs of Marijuana continues, this video focuses on cost to families.
Dr. Karen Randall describes some of the costs of legal marijuana in her community of Pueblo Colorado, including marijuana psychosis, suicide, cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, bad interactions with medications and CDB, homelessness, more drugs, illegal marijuana grows and more. She shows the increase in the homeless population and a picture of a raid on illegal marijuana grow house in her neighborhood.
