Fence Builder eNews Update - APRIL 2020 #PreventDontPromote

As of January 7, 2020, a total of 2558 hospitalized patients with nonfatal cases and 60 patients with fatal cases of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury (EVALI) had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
CONCLUSIONS: Chronic conditions, including cardiac and respiratory diseases and mental health conditions, were common among hospitalized patients with EVALI.

The youth vaping epidemic is of longer duration. Current use of e-cigarette, or vaping, products increased by 900% among U.S. middle and high school students between 2011 and 2015, declined in 2016, and then increased again between 2017 and 2018, erasing previous progress.² In 2019, more than 5.2 million young people in the United States reported current use, including 27.5% of high school students and 10.5% of middle school students.²Both these epidemics predominantly affect young people and probably have multiple causes. Moreover, it’s likely that the widespread use of e-cigarettes, including products that facilitate THC use, has created an environment that has fueled the EVALI epidemic.

Abstract-Background: E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that heat a liquid and deliver an aerosolized product to the user. Pulmonary illnesses related to e-cigarette use have been reported, but no large series has been described. In July 2019, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Illinois Department of Public Health received reports of lung injury associated with the use of e-cigarettes (also called vaping) and launched a coordinated public health investigation.

From August 2019 to date, over 2,700 patients have been reported with e-cigarette, or vaping, associated lung injury (EVALI) in all the states of the US.
Journal reference: JAMA Intern Med. Published online March 06, 2020. READ MORE...

Grey Matter Volume Differences Associated with Extremely Low Levels of Cannabis Use in Adolescence

Journal of Neuroscience 6 March 2019, 39 (10) 1817-1827; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3375-17.2018

For complete study https://www.jneurosci.org/content/39/10/1817

Report examines pilot fatalities, illicit drugs - What's even more frightening is that Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Airlines, is one of the worlds highest profile proponents for legalizing WEED! Do the math people! Do the math!

For complete story https://transportationtodaynews.com/news/17327-report-examines-pilot-fatalities-illicit-drugs/

The association between recreational cannabis commercialization and cannabis exposures reported to the US National Poison Data System

For complete Research go to https ://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/add.15019 (February 2020)

Cannabis Conundrum
A Mothers Nightmare: You cannot promote Mental Health and Marijuana – Psychosis and Suicide!

Concerns About CBD – Is It Safe? Get the Facts

The Lancet Psychiatry: Single dose of psychoactive component in cannabis could induce psychotic, depressive, and anxiety symptoms in healthy people

For complete research https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/tl-pss031620.php

Conversation with Journalist, Alex Berenson, Author of Tell Your Children the Truth About Marijuana & Mental Illness

Psychoactive ingredient in marijuana (THC) may impair ability to produce viable embryos: Female eggs exposed to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, have an impaired ability to produce viable embryos, and are significantly less likely to result in a viable pregnancy, according to an animal study accepted for presentation at ENDO 2020, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting… The eggs' developmental rates and gene expression were measured. The researchers evaluated the ability of embryos to reach critical stages of development at specific time points. With higher concentrations of THC, they found a significant decrease and delay in the ability of the treated oocytes to reach these checkpoints. For article Medical Life Sciences News 4/2/20

'The legal stuff is garbage': why Canada's cannabis black market keeps thriving

For complete story https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/18/cannabis-canada-legal-recreational-business?CMP=share_btn_link

The Fence or The Ambulance?

The Fence or The Ambulance?

“Most people have been conned into using the word ‘overdose’ regarding illicit drugs! No such thing! Why? Because it clearly implies there is a 'safe' dose which can be taken - and everyone knows that's a lie. The same goes for the words 'use' and abuse'. Those terms can only be applied to prescribed pharmaceuticals because they have a prescribed safe dose. I have asked each jurisdiction in Australia if the legal amount of alcohol when driving, up to 0.49, is considered safe for driving. All said no - they would not state that!”
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