does marijuana hold potential for harm?
I was wondering when someone would put this type of review article together. After all, there have been a multitude of studies and nobody has really gone to put them together in one place for easy digestion of facts. I’m all about the easy digestion of facts, particularly after having spent a day deconstructing a total awesome landmark of a Subfield1 + Subfield2 paper to present to some of my peers from totally unrelated other fields. So today in blogosphere journal club we’re going to look at this article: Hall W and Degenhardt L (2009) Adverse health effects of non-medical cannabis use. Lancet 374(9698):1383-91. (By the way, I’ve found the authors have written on some other interesting drug-related and public health-related topics.) The authors identified several areas of “greatest potential public health interest, ” which they define as having the “greatest probability of affecting a substantial portion of cannabis users.” They searched the literature for studies properly-designed f
