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Secondhand Marijuana/Cannabis Smoke Fact Sheet
Covered in this document: Facts about secondhand marijuana smoke; Understanding the harms; Health risks of exposure to secondhand...

Breathe Free USA
Apr 271 min read
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Toxic Homes for Sale: How California's Illegal Marijuana Industry Ruins Houses
Illegal grows in residential homes are hard to detect, create serious health hazards, and are connected with a number of other illegal...

Breathe Free USA
Apr 132 min read
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Weed Is Dangerous. Legalizing It Was a Mistake
Authors Barr and Walters point out that legalization of marijuana has led to increased marijuana use and addiction, as well as greater...

Breathe Free USA
Apr 51 min read
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Associations of cannabis use, use frequency, and cannabis use disorder with violent behavior among young adults in the United States
Both men and women who use marijuana daily were significantly more likely to be violent than people who do not use marijuana."Data were...

Breathe Free USA
Apr 21 min read
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New Research Uncovers Alarming Heart Attack Risks for Marijuana Users
Two large-scale studies, including a meta-analysis of over 75 million people, reveal that cannabis users under 50 could face a six times...

Breathe Free USA
Mar 291 min read
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How Cartels Took Over California's Desert and Turned It to Lawless Land | Dawn Rowe
Note: Full video is no longer available; YouTube notes that the YouTube California Insider account has been terminated. Below is a...

Breathe Free USA
Aug 26, 20233 min read
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EVALI: epidemic of e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury
In 2019 and 2020 nearly 3000 people were hospitalized with severe lung damage from vaping which became "known as the epidemic of...

Breathe Free USA
Aug 16, 20231 min read
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Cannabis Use Disorder and Risk of Psychotic & Nonpsychotic Unipolar Depression and Bipolar Disorder
A prospective, population-based cohort study using Danish nationwide registers included all individuals born in Denmark before December...

Breathe Free USA
Aug 15, 20231 min read
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Marijuana Users Three Times More Likely to Develop Peripheral Artery Disease
A new study found that marijuana users are more than three times more likely to develop peripheral artery disease (PAD) than the general...

Breathe Free USA
Aug 14, 20231 min read
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Quantity of Melatonin and CBD in Melatonin Gummies Sold in the US
In this research letter the authors state that, while Melatonin products have not been approved by the FDA they are sold over-the-counter...

Breathe Free USA
May 13, 20231 min read
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Cannabis Genotoxicity - Damages DNA, Chromosomes
Cannabis, including CBD and marijuana is genotoxic, meaning it causes DNA or chromosomal damage. This damage can be passed down 3 or 4...

Breathe Free USA
May 11, 20231 min read
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Cannabidiol (CBD) – Potential Harms, Side Effects, and Unknowns
While CBD (cannabidiol) has been marketed as a treatment for many health issues, there is a lack of evidence to substantiate these...

Breathe Free USA
May 1, 20231 min read
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Pulmonary effects of vaping cannabidiol versus nicotine
Vaping of CBD is more inflammatory and more harmful to the lungs than vaping of nicotine. Read full article on Thorax Download PDF

Breathe Free USA
Apr 29, 20231 min read
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How Weed Became the New OxyContin
Cannabis "has become a hardcore drug, like cocaine or methamphetamines." Just as with other hardcore drugs, chronic cannabis use leads to...

Breathe Free USA
Apr 25, 20231 min read
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Cannabis and Coronary Artery Disease
Researchers looked into "the causal association of genetic liability to cannabis use disorder and risk of CAD (cornary artery disease)."...

Breathe Free USA
Mar 27, 20231 min read
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Study of Δ9-THC Ingested With CBD
In this study of infrequent cannabis users, researchers evaluated effects of high dose Δ9-THC when ingested alone versus with CBD. They...

Breathe Free USA
Mar 27, 20231 min read
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Long-Term Outcomes of Adolescent THC Exposure on Translational Cognitive Measures
This rat study revealed that exposure to high-dose THC in adolescence resulted in cognitive vulnerabillity in adulthood. Specifically,...

Breathe Free USA
Jan 21, 20231 min read
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Chest CT Findings in Marijuana Smokers
In this retrospective study, examination of chest CTs revealed that airway inflammation and emphysema were found more often in marijuana...

Breathe Free USA
Jan 19, 20231 min read
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Your Patients Are Rotting Their Teeth With Vaping
Referring to a recent study, published in the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA), the author summarizes that study...

Breathe Free USA
Jan 16, 20231 min read
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THC: The Human Cost
ABC news investigated the human toll of illegal marijuana grows for a year. The reporter shines light on the horrific conditions imposed...

Breathe Free USA
Jan 9, 20231 min read
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