Health, wealth, happiness. I'm Dr. Michael Grecker and you're listening to the

Nutrition Facts podcast and while I can't promise you all of those things, if you

take a listen to the evidence-based nutrition found in this podcast, chances are

you'll learn something that you can use to make a positive change in your

diet and in your health. My job here is to bring you the information you need to

make that reality possible. Remember Mary Jane? No, I don't mean the girl you

went to grade school with. I'm talking about a substance also known as cannabis.

Well, there's a new research summary from the National Academies of Sciences.

What did this 460-page report conclude about cannabis and health? When some

misinformed people here of the grand opening of a new plant-based medical

practice, one plant in particular may come to mind. Over the years, I've gotten a

lot of questions about cannabis and I figure it's high time to try to clear the

haze. I didn't want to just take a pot-shot token effort and end up with some

half-baked puff piece. There are burning issues about a growing industry with so

much buzz and smoking mirrors the science can really take a hit. I mean, are there

acute chronic effects? Blunt trauma from impaired driving perhaps? I wanted to

give the straight dope weed out any dubious research and it's been quite a trip.

420 articles published within just a past few months. Here's the results of the

review everyone was waiting for. The 2017 current state of evidence from the

Institute of Medicine tasked with conducting a comprehensive review on the

health effects of cannabis. Started out with 24,000 sources,

wilded down to about 10,000 to produce this 468-page document. What did they

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