Cannabis News: Yale Researchers Claim Cannabis Use Disorder is On the Rise

A recent study from Yale University reveals that instances of cannabis use disorder are on the rise in people in the United States. Cyril Desouza, a Yale University professor of psychiatry who has been analyzing cannabis and cannabinoids for over two decades, claims their most recent research, which has been ongoing for over two years, targets something of which many of us are unaware.

“We are seeing that approximately three out of 10 people are developing a cannabis use disorder,” Desouza said, adding that “People thought that [you] smoke weed everyday and you quit and nothing’s going to happen. We now know that there is cannabis withdrawal syndrome.”

Cannabis addiction, according to Desouza, is characterized as uncontrollable consumption in monetary terms, time spent being high, or time spent recuperating from being high. Insomnia and appetite difficulties are common withdrawal effects.

Desouza’s research is currently examining the efficacy of one medication to alleviate withdrawal symptoms. For eight weeks, the paid volunteers will take the medicine and do an actigraph to track their sleeping. Desouza says the medicine has already shown encouraging outcomes.

According to Desouza, cannabis in the 1960s contained around 3% to 4% THC on average, while cannabis currently has about 17% THC, and specific types of cannabis, such as edibles, can contain up to 80% or 90% THC. Even more reason, they claim, for cannabis addictions to be on the rise.

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