{"id":342,"date":"2023-02-07T17:43:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T01:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/?p=342"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:16:46","slug":"cannabis-is-king-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/cannabis-is-king-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis is King in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Today, about one in five people in California use cannabis regularly and it has become something of a health trend \u2013 not simply legal and above board but, the smart thing to do. Now, you don&#8217;t have to smoke the cannabis. You can eat, drink and bathe in it, rub it on and even brush your teeth with cannabis toothpaste.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>An estimated 40% of Californians say they&#8217;ve dabbled at least once. This shows major growth since California became the first US state to authorize the sale of cannabis for medical reasons in 1996 after a handful of studies showed small doses of the drug were beneficial for patients suffering cancer pain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the past few years, doctors in California have begun to voice concerns about the repercussions of increasing cannabis use, including depressive breakdowns, psychosis, suicidal thoughts.<\/li>\n<li>Heavy cannabis users are more likely to need ER treatment and get involved in accidents.<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles, followed by San Diego, is experiencing major cannabis-use growth.<\/li>\n<li>Despite \u201clegalization\u201d in California the cannabis black market has grown by nearly 100%.<\/li>\n<li>A major review of 25 studies concluded there was insufficient evidence for the long-term pain-relieving effect of cannabis.<\/li>\n<li>As for mental health, a 2020 review by psychiatrists at the University of Melbourne concluded the evidence is &#8216;too weak&#8217; to prove cannabis helps anxiety, depression or insomnia.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists overwhelmingly conclude that frequent use of the drug is not worth the risks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Excerpts from <em>Eve Simmons<\/em>,  Article for &#8220;The Mail On Sunday&#8221; 2022, July 7<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-10976437\/How-Californias-legal-cannabis-dream-public-health-nightmare.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, about one in five people in California use cannabis regularly and it has become something of a health trend \u2013 not simply legal and above board but, the smart thing to do. Now, you don&#8217;t have to smoke the cannabis. You can eat, drink and bathe in it, rub it on and even brush<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/cannabis-is-king-in-california\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Full Article&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895,896,82,81],"tags":[875,974,975,813,976,516],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-trafficking","category-fentanyl","category-health-care","category-drug-abuse","tag-california","tag-cannabis","tag-los-angeles","tag-post-define","tag-san-diego","tag-zz8","comment-status-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westandunited.cloud\/california\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}