Ever wonder why we know so much about alcohol and tobacco and next to nothing about cannabis? Well Alexis Wnuk, in a recent article in New Scientist is asking that same question. She tells us that over the same time period, there were 6000 studies on cannabis, but more than 10,000 on tobacco and more than 23,000 on alcohol. If you look at the guy in the picture, you can tell cannabis was not his problem. He had way too much to drink. But it’s no surprise that the U.S. government is still making it tough to do any research on the cannabis plant and its impact on health and the environment.
“Government regulations make it exceedingly difficult to study cannabis,” Wnuk writes. “In the US, for instance, researchers must obtain a special license from the Drug Enforcement Administration and they can only study cannabis grown at licensed facilities. Prior to 2021, there was just one of these. Even in Canada, where recreational cannabis use has been legal since 2018, federal and provincial restrictions have encumbered research.”
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