Siri or Alexa can't help quit drinking and smoking, get confused by questions on drugs, find researchers
“Siri, help me quit drugs”: What does your smart device say when you ask for help with addiction? According to a new report, leading intelligent virtual assistants fail to understand questions about where to find help for substance abuse, and in one instance the response was for a recommendation on...
Determining the Safety of CBD Products
Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Print Font Size: FDA warns consumers that the agency has not evaluated most CBD products and cannot say they are safe. Celebrities are promoting cannabis derived products as part of a growing wellness trend. Kim Kardashian had a cannabidiol (CBD) themed baby shower. Melissa McCarthy used...
Can Cannabis Help Your Mental Health? What We Know
Health News Share on Pinterest Researchers are learning how cannabis compounds affect people. Getty Images There’s not enough scientific evidence to recommend cannabinoids for treating mental health conditions, a new study finds. Products with THC or CBD have been used in recent years as a way to self-medicate for certain...
There's Little Evidence Cannabis Helps Mental Health Issues
Marijuana is more mainstream than it’s ever been. A growing number of states are legalizing it medicinally and recreationally; millions of people are vaping products that contain the compound THC (potentially to the detriment of their health ); and non-psychoactive CBD is in everything from beauty products to seltzer water....
CBD Google searches surge in the US as experts call it 'snake oil'
According to our Google searches, Americans are more interested in CBD than any other health product or topic, a new study reveals. In the US, an average of 6.4 million unique Google searches are made for CBD each month - more than those for meditation, exercise, veganism and even marijuana,...
Google searches for CBD expected to hit record high this year
Searches for CBD spiked this year as awareness of the product grew. It's not your imagination, cannabidiol, commonly known as CBD, has seemingly infiltrated every consumer product -- from skin care to gummy candies to vape pens to dog treats. Now there's data to back up that trend, according to...
Ads Pitching CBD as a Cure-All Are Everywhere. Oversight Hasn't Kept Up.
Scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., were concerned when a young man contacted their department last year complaining of a heart-pounding, hallucinogenic high he had neither expected nor wanted to have. The team, led by the forensic toxicologist Michelle R. Peace, had published a study about mysterious ingredients...
UC San Diego Scientists Push For Regulations On Marijuana Advertising
As the marijuana industry grows, so do marketing claims of health benefits from cannabis use. Now researchers at UC San Diego are warning against marijuana advertisements that boast health benefits, saying the claims are problematic and need to be independently verified. In a recent column in the Journal of the...
Marijuana Advertising, LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner, Those Mysterious Kook Signs
We look at whether marijuana advertising is misleading about its health benefits. Plus, an interview with LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner. Plus, a collaboration between Toyota, Kenworth, UPS and Shell to clean up the air at the Port of Los Angeles. Chu and reproductive rights Last week, Alabama passed some of...
3 UCSD scientists call for tighter regulation of marijuana advertising
Marijuana is weighed at the Greener Crossing Medical Marijuana Care Giver Center in Detroit on March 9, 2017. (AP) The federal government should more aggressively regulate the marketing of marijuana, particularly products that feature unsubstantiated health claims, three UC San Diego physicians say in the latest issue of Journal of...