Partner's Podcast 005: Larry Keen and Gerard Moeller
In this episode, Dr. Larry Keen, Director of the Psychoneuroimmunology of Risk and Disease (PNIRD) laboratory in VSU's Psychology department, and Dr. Gerard Moeller, Director of the Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research and Division Chair for Addiction Psychiatry in VCU's School of Medicine discuss their collaboration around heart rate variability and cannabis use. If you are interested in partnering with VSU or sharing your partnership story, please reach out at vsu_partners -at- vsu.edu.
I am interested in the many unrecognized ( ill) effects of marijuana, having studied its structure along with that of other psychoactive drugs under NIDA funding for PhD and Post Doc research decades ago with Monty Kier. I follow Yale's Samuel Wilkinson ( and others) regularly now via PubMed. Title to Wilkinson review of outcomes for use in PTSD: Marijuana use is associated with worse outcomes in symptom severity and violent behavior in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder
ReplyDeletehttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26455669/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32121373/
His review of literature on "medical" marijuana found no real correlations in a meta analysis (not surprising in meta analysis) and he correctly, in my view, recommended well controlled clinical trials before any medical claims be made, which is simply standard FDA/CFR requirement for any OTC drug. Trump's FDA did some things right (I am not without opinions) by authorizing four additional locations to grow research grade marijuana to conduct such badly needed research so we actually know what we're doing before more rampant legalization.