The #RdRcannabis blog

Everyone knows that cannabis use can pose health risks for the smoker. However, less well known is the method of use which can greatly mitigate a large part of this potential harm while also affording an enhanced user experience: vaporisation, which is unanimously rated by both users and research as the safest and most efficient strategy for harm reduction and pleasure management associated with cannabis use.
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Human societies are becoming increasingly complex due to social, economic, cultural and political reasons. In today’s social fabrics with their high population density, respect and good relations are the cornerstones for avoiding conflict.
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Responsible consumption is a contentious issue. Responsibility is a value that would seem to be an indicator of maturity. And maturity, in this case, has nothing to do with age. There are some very mature children and some extremely childish adults. This picture can be extrapolated to psychoactive substance use.
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Why do we need to talk about gender in the social movement for cannabis, which fights for the rights of users and their freedoms?
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Using cannabis is part of the daily life of a significant percentage of the population. In Catalonia, some 200,000 people consume it on a regular basis. The reasons for using cannabis are many and varied: to unwind, to forget, to get its therapeutic properties, to be inspired and so on. Consumption habits may sometimes mean that cannabis use and its effects become a staple part of someone’s life, i.e., they smoke almost all the time and in almost all social settings. And of course also at work. In addition to being an indicator of prolonged use over time, smoking at work can also bring with it a number of risks. Obviously, not all jobs are the same and not all usage is accompanied by the same hazards. Let’s have a look.
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Food. What a pleasure. How most of us love to eat. Eating is a basic necessity for survival. We have to eat several times a day to stay healthy. And of course, cannabis culture has also led to the evolution of cannabis cuisine. Not surprisingly, in the states of the United States where cannabis is legal there is a thriving industry engaged in marketing food products which contain the main psychoactive substances in cannabis. You would be amazed at how many ingestible products containing cannabis are marketed.
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There is a legal principle which says that ignorance of the law is no excuse. Translated from Latin, we might render it as: ‘not knowing what the law is does not exempt you from complying with it’. Seen in a positive light, this tells us that information is essential to make the right decisions.
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It is well known that the time taken to flush the remains (metabolites) of cannabis from the body of the person who has used it is much longer than for any other substance detectable in a check (alcohol, amphetamines, benzodiazepines, cocaine, MDMA, methamphetamine, and opiates). While alcohol disappears from the body within a few hours and stimulants take three to four days, some people test positive for cannabis up to three weeks after their last use. Continue reading