As part of its evaluation of Britain’s system for classifying illicit drugs, Parliament commissioned the European branch of RAND Corporation, one of the world’s most respected think-tanks, to study the evidence underlying the classification of several...
This 60-page report is an evidence-based literature review of marijuana, based only upon research that followed well-accepted research designs, included strong statistical and procedural controls and passed a careful review by independent scientists. Commissioned by...
Unlike the U.S., the British government maintains an independent group of scientific experts to advise it on drug policy, called the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. In 2005, concerned about reports linking marijuana use to mental illness, the government asked...
This review provides in-depth evaluation of marijuana absorption, metabolism and excretion. The fate of cannabinoids in the human body is significant for both medicinal use and illegal drug enforcement, raising complications for both DUI enforcement and employee drug...
This study, co-authored by Donald Tashkin of UCLA, one of the world’s leading experts on the effects of marijuana on the lungs, compared 1,212 cancer patients with 1,040 cancer-free controls matched for age, gender and neighborhood in order to see if there was a...
