654 - The Evidence—and Lack Thereof—About Cannabis
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Legalizing medical cannabis may have paved the way for recreational use in many states, but what is actually known about cannabis as a medical treatment? Dr. Johannes Thrul, a Johns Hopkins substance use researcher, talks with Lindsay Smith Rogers about why there are huge gaps in research of the risks and benefits of cannabis, and how legalization might create new opportunities to finally get some answers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:30.7 | This is Lindsay Smith-Rogers. Today we're talking about cannabis. |
| 0:35.7 | Dr. Johannes Thruill, a substance use researcher, walks us through the sea change of medical |
| 0:41.0 | and recreational legalization, the current landscape of medical cannabis research, and why it's |
| 0:46.6 | so difficult to get better data about the risks and benefits. |
| 0:50.3 | Let's listen. |
| 0:52.0 | Johannes Thrill, thank you so much for being back on public health on call. How are you? |
| 0:56.1 | Good. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:57.8 | Sure. So today we are going to talk about cannabis. As of right now, I think some 23 states in the District of Columbia have legal recreational cannabis and other states have decriminalized it or proved it for medical use. |
| 1:13.1 | There's a whole spectrum. |
| 1:14.5 | And here in Maryland, even as of July 1st, anyone over 21 can buy cannabis for recreational use. |
| 1:19.9 | A friend of mine recently said he did not think you would see this in our lifetime. |
| 1:23.4 | So what's happening here? |
| 1:25.1 | Why this sea change? |
| 1:26.7 | Where did we start? Medical marijuana sea change? Where did we start? |
| 1:27.7 | Medical marijuana to recreational. |
| 1:30.0 | How did this happen? |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.6 | So I think, you know, what we're seeing here is really just one more state that in the momentum |
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