“Marguerite,” a student in recovery for cannabis use disorder, conceals her identity with an umbrella while posing in a stairway outside the Penn State libraries on the University Park campus. She is getting support for recovery from her addiction through the Penn State Recovery Community. Not long ago when Joseph Garbely, chief medical officer for […]

If you didn’t have a chance to watch the press conference with Governor Wolf and Lt. Governor Fetterman you can do so here (approximately 26 minutes):     Here is the full 89 page report from the listening tour:  Read More 

State College, PA (September 25, 2019) – The Commonwealth Prevention Alliance (CPA), a private non-profit whose mission is to support prevention professionals in eliminating substance abuse and risk-related behaviors, is against the legalization of recreational marijuana in PA. CPA’s founding principles are on prevention of substance misuse/abuse. It is clear that children and adolescents, those […]

Medical cannabis has been touted as a solution to the US opioid overdose crisis since Bachhuber et al. [M. A. Bachhuber, B. Saloner, C. O. Cunningham, C. L. Barry, JAMA Intern. Med. 174, 1668–1673] found that from 1999 to 2010 states with medical cannabis laws experienced slower increases in opioid analgesic overdose mortality. That research […]

A paper written nearly five years ago launched hopes that medical marijuana could help fight the opioid epidemic. If more people used the less addictive and less harmful pot instead of opioids, the thinking went, deaths might abate.But a new paper, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, throws cold water […]

BREAKING: First Release of Data from Canadian Legalization Shows Significant Increase in Youth and Overall Use