As of Dec. Some of the people affected by vaping illnesses include children. Early research shows vaping liquids and oils — even once — can harm your lungs. Some states with legal marijuana are proactively warning marijuana users that vaping liquids has been known to cause severe lung injuries and death.
To stay up to date on the latest vaping-related illness news, check the CDC website for regular updates. When people vape, they consume concentrated marijuana. It seems to be a much more potent delivery system than smoking. In one study , researchers found that first-time and infrequent marijuana users were more likely to experience adverse reactions from the enhanced delivery of THC caused by vaping when compared to smoking. Both smoking and vaping have an almost immediate effect on the body.
Their effects peak within 10 to 15 minutes. Most experts recommend starting vaping or smoking very slowly, taking in a small amount at first and waiting 20 to 30 minutes before having more. Edible marijuana products, or edibles , can be any food or beverage. Having too much can lead to adverse physical and mental reactions, such as:.
Marijuana has to be heated in order for its chemical compounds to be activated. Cooking it can do that. It can take up to 2 hours for the effects of ingested marijuana to hit and around 3 hours for them to peak.
Effects are often long lasting — anywhere from 6 to 8 hours. In the United States the vaping phenomenon hit the headlines in after the American Centre for Disease Control and Prevention CDC reported at least eighteen fatalities and more than 1, people with serious lung complaints after vaping. Although almost all of these concerned the use of so-called e-cigarettes and vape pens for recreational use, the use of a vaporizer to administer medicinal cannabis was being questioned. The vapour is quickly absorbed by the lungs, permitting patients to effectively titrate to optimise their dose based upon symptom severity, tolerability and avoidance of side-effects.
The rapid onset of effects of inhaled cannabinoid use allows easier titration of dose, while standardised cannabis products enable patients to administer an exact dose. The importance of vaporization is underlined in patient use surveys. The majority of survey respondents report higher satisfaction approval scores with the inhalation route.
In general, whole plant, herbal cannabis-based medicines received higher scores than other products containing isolated cannabinoids. Patients seek a reliable, affordable and portable vaporizer for administering cannabis flos. Presently there is research dedicated to advancing administration technology. All devices have relied on Bedrocan standardised cannabis flos for their quality testing and clinical trials.
Vaporizer medical devices, delivering standardised doses, underline quality assurance, safety, and efficacy. With these administration technical advancements, smoking of cannabis flos can soon be a thing of the past. Backed by proper scientific studies, cannabis flos will become an acceptable therapeutic among patients, prescribers, and regulatory authorities.
It should be recognised that vape-pens for inhalation of cannabinoids often are not subjected to any technical or clinical testing. While, by comparison, a number of the devices for administering cannabis flos by vaporisation have robust supporting clinical and technical studies.
With regard to administration, future policy must be clear and obvious. While the clinical guidelines support cannabis flos for inhalation administered by vaporization. While there are similarities between the administration methods — vaping vs vaporisation — a blanket ban on inhalation or on vaporizer devices for administering cannabis flos would be nonsensical.
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What Are the Risks of Vaping Marijuana? Are Dispensary Weed Carts Safe? Are Dry Herb Vaporizers Safe? For the 0-mg condition, A battery of assessments was administered at baseline and at 0. Blood was sampled and HR and BP were measured at the same time points. Cognitive performance tasks were omitted at the 0. Unless specified, the range of scores for these outcomes was not fixed. Participants received training on these tasks during the screening evaluation to establish a baseline and lower practice effects during the sessions.
Blood samples were collected using mL gray-top vacutainer tubes. A meta-analysis 24 conducted on 6 acute drug administration studies each with 14 participants and a range of drug doses determined that average effect sizes for primary outcome measures eg, subjective drug effects and cognitive assessments ranged from 0.
Demographic characteristics and whole-blood THC data were presented using descriptive statistics including means and standard deviations. Data for vital signs, subjective drug effects, and cognitive and psychomotor performance were analyzed using repeated-measures regressions covariance structure: first order autoregressive. Separate regressions were conducted on each outcome with 3 factors included in each model: time change from baseline scores , dose 0 mg, 10 mg, and 25 mg , and inhalation method smoked vs vaporized.
Planned contrasts between placebo 0 mg and active doses 10 mg and 25 mg within each inhalation method smoked and vaporized and between inhalation methods at each active dose were conducted using peak change from baseline scores for each variable. Several steps were taken to lower familywise error rate. Because 2 comparisons were made to the 0-mg condition within each inhalation method for each outcome measure, the threshold for statistical significance for these planned contrasts was set to a P value less than.
Seventeen healthy adult participants 9 men and 8 women completed the study. The mean SD age of these individuals was Self-reported races and ethnicities for study completers were as follows: 10 white or non-Hispanic, 3 other or Hispanic, 3 black or non-Hispanic, and 1 white or Hispanic.
A mean SD of days had passed median [range] days, [] days since last self-reported cannabis use at the time of study entry. For both smoked and vaporized cannabis inhalation, numerous drug effects were significantly greater in the active-dose conditions ie, 10 mg and 25 mg of THC compared with placebo mean peak change from baseline scores, time of peak change from baseline, and indicators of statistical significance Table.
At the mg and mg dose for both inhalation methods, increased mean SD ratings of heart racing vaporized: 10 mg, At the mg dose, vaporized and smoked cannabis increased mean SD ratings of unpleasant vaporized: The mg dose of vaporized cannabis increased ratings of paranoid mean [SD], At the mg dose, vaporized cannabis, compared with smoked cannabis, resulted in higher mean SD ratings of drug effect At the mg vaporized dose, mean SD ratings of paranoid The majority of observed drug effects peaked between within the first hour after cannabis administration was completed Table.
Notably, for both mg doses, mean ratings for drug effect had not returned to baseline 6 hours after cannabis administration mean [SD], smoked: Greater impairment was observed for vaporized cannabis compared with smoked cannabis on mean SD distance from the central stimulus for the DAT at 10 mg Cognitive and psychomotor deficits typically peaked between 30 and 60 minutes after cannabis administration and, in some instances, did not return to baseline for 6 to 8 hours Figure 3.
Observed increases from baseline for HR at the mg smoked cannabis dose mean [SD], At the mg dose, the magnitude of HR increase was significantly greater following vaporized cannabis mean [SD], On average, peak changes in HR occurred immediately ie, at the minute postdosing assessment point and returned to baseline within 3 hours of cannabis administration Figure 4. Consistent with the pharmacodynamic outcomes, quantitative THC concentrations in whole blood were higher following vaporized vs smoked cannabis administration and demonstrated dose-orderly differences eFigure in Supplement 2.
Blood THC concentrations peaked at the minute postdosing time point and returned to 0 within 4 hours of dosing for all conditions. Two participants vomited 1 after mg THC vaporized inhalation and 1 after mg THC smoked inhalation and another experienced hallucinations 27 after inhaling 25 mg of vaporized cannabis.
The current study provides a comprehensive evaluation of the acute effects associated with smoked and vaporized cannabis, at multiple THC doses, among healthy adults.
Unlike prior controlled examinations of acute cannabis effects, participants in this study were not regular cannabis users. On average, participants last used cannabis about 1 year prior to enrollment, and none had used cannabis in the 30 days prior to enrollment. After inhaling smoked and vaporized cannabis containing 25 mg of THC, participants experienced pronounced drug effects, substantial impairment of cognitive and psychomotor functioning, and marked increases in HR.
Notably, the highest dose of cannabis administered in this study 25 mg of THC: 0. Regulatory and clinical entities should consider these results in decisions involving cannabis accessibility, dosing recommendations, and education for novice cannabis users. In contrast to previous controlled comparisons of smoked and vaporized cannabis effects, 12 - 14 in the current study, vaporized cannabis produced significantly greater subjective drug effects, cognitive and psychomotor impairment, and higher blood THC concentrations than the same doses of smoked cannabis.
These discrepant results may be because procedures used in former studies enabled users to titrate their THC dose, whereas the current study required participants to self-administer a fixed amount of cannabis. Interestingly, the time course of effects differed across outcome measures such that increases in blood THC concentrations and HR returned to baseline more rapidly than subjective drug effects and cognitive and psychomotor impairment.
Additionally, blood THC concentrations were only moderately correlated with subjective drug effects and weakly correlated, or not correlated at all, with cognitive and psychomotor performance. The current study has some noteworthy limitations. Future studies are needed to determine the generality of the effects found in the study to other forms of cannabis eg, cannabis extracts and those with varied THC:CBD ratios.
Additionally, vaporizer characteristics eg, temperature and power output could mediate THC delivery and should be explored further. The extent to which chronic cannabis users or users who have a specific preference for vaporized or smoked cannabis differ on the outcomes examined in the study are unclear.
Third, the small sample size of the current study precluded evaluation of participant characteristics eg, genetics that could influence acute cannabis effects. In this study, participants experienced dose-orderly increases in subjective drug effects, cognitive and psychomotor impairment, acute cardiovascular effects, and blood THC concentrations following inhalation of smoked and vaporized cannabis.
Notably, vaporized cannabis produced greater changes in study outcomes relative to smoked cannabis. As the legal cannabis marketplace continues to expand, future studies should further explore the effects of vaporizers and other novel methods for cannabis administration in users with different degrees of experience with cannabis, as the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic profiles will likely differ substantially across products and users.
Published: November 30, Correction: This article was corrected on December 21, , to fix a wording error in the title of the Table. Author Contributions: Drs Spindle and Vandrey had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Vandrey reported receiving personal fees and has served as a consultant or received honoraria from Zynerba Pharmaceuticals, Insys Therapeutics, Battelle Memorial Institute, and Canopy Health Innovations Inc outside the submitted work.
No other disclosures were reported. The funders had no role in the collection or management of the study data. Data Sharing Statement: See Supplement 3. Additional Contributions: We thank the support staff of the Johns Hopkins University Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit for outstanding contributions to the implementation of this study.
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