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Vaporizing marijuana releases far fewer harmful chemicals than smoking joints does, according to a new study. “These results demonstrate that combustion—not cannabis itself—is the primary driver…

Legalizing marijuana for adult use is linked to gradual reductions in violent crime—while medical cannabis legalization is associated with lower rates of property crime—according to a…

Regular cannabis users showed no significant impairment when driving a simulator 12 to 15 hours after smoking cannabis, according to new research that raises questions about…

There’s no meaningful evidence that imposing higher taxes on marijuana would steer people away from using it—contrary to a claim recently made by the The New…

Alcohol and tobacco cause far more harms to people who consume them, and to society overall, than marijuana does, according to a new government-funded study. A…

Two non-psychoactive cannabis compounds, cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabigerol (CBG), could offer new treatment options for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), according to research published in…

Just one dose of psilocybin combined with therapy is associated with “significantly increased long-term abstinence” from cigarettes compared to nicotine patches, according to a new study…

A large-scale study by researchers at an Oxford University-based research facility has found no link between cannabis use and cognitive decline in older people, challenging concerns…

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have found that psilocybin could be used as a tool in the fight against post-treatment Lyme disease (PTLD), a currently untreatable…

A study of data from nearly half a million young people has found that adolescent cannabis use is associated with an increased risk of being diagnosed…