Researchers found a chasm between the health reasons for which the public seeks out cannabis and what gold-standard science actually shows about its effectiveness.
Addiction experts, who studied hundreds of clinical trials, guidelines and surveys conducted over 15 years, found a gulf between how the public perceives cannabis and what gold-standard science shows.
Young adults who engaged in a social media βdetoxβ reported reductions in depression, anxiety and insomnia, though it was unclear how long the effects would last.
At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed themselves the first real optimism in decades.
The scientific Nobels announced this week β in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry β honored achievements rooted in fundamental research from decades ago.
Richard Robson, left, one of the winners of this yearβs Nobel Prize for Chemistry, with a student at the University of Melbourne. He and his co-laureates were recognized for work derived from experiments that began in the 1980s.