2/5 With #marijuana use on the rise, it’s important to monitor trends in adverse health effects of cannabis in order to be able to detect any surprise “outbreaks.”
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1/5: This weeks #SundaySpotlight ->
Interesting science read on monitoring of 
#marijuana use public health side effects in #PublicHealthReportshttps://bit.ly/2TEf474
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3/5 Nice work by a local public health agency in CO (state which had legalized recreational cannabis) which developed a novel system to monitor marijuana-related ER visits in real time--other states should consider adopting it.
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4/5 DYK: some patterns & methods of marijuana consumption may be more risky than others: CO monitoring data suggest that “marijuana tourists” and users of edible marijuana had more ER visits for cannabis side effects than CO residents and marijuana smokers, respectively.
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5/5 With non-medical uses of marijuana products becoming more common, we should always think about safety first and prioritize doing no harm- and that starts with intentional data collection and evaluation.
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Meanwhile back in the lab, Big Pharma is like...pic.twitter.com/Ekj0CAaDXJ
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You, Lady Justice, are wrong. There are not psych wards full of people having psychotic episodes due to cannabis. One in twenty thousand can have that happen. Please do your research. You sound like an uneducated prohibitionist.
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If you were to look inside the medicine cabinet of many homes you would find a panoply of prescription bottles of every size. This predicament is becoming all too common for those who place so much faith on their daily FDA drug approved ritual.
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