In this interview, Dr. Madeleine Swortwood of Sam Houston State University talks to News-Medical Life Sciences about the symposium she will lead at Pittcon this year on the analytical challenges of cannabis and its impacts on driving and public health.
What role does cannabis play in 2021, especially in the realm of public health?
With increased medicinal and recreational use, we really need to have a solid understanding of how this is going to impact drug-impaired driving, workplace safety and even accidental toxic exposures.
What are some analytical challenges and impacts on driving and public health when studying cannabis in biological contexts? What innovative analytical methodologies have emerged to address these challenges?
There is really a lot of disagreement when it comes to cannabis safety, especially with regards to human performance and impairment. We are going to discuss why cannabis impairment is challenging to establish and the difficulty of instituting limits like we have established with the alcohol 0.08.
We now have the ability, from an analytical standpoint, to detect lower levels of cannabinoids, and we also have the ability to identify and quantify other cannabinoid markers. With sensitive instrumentation this allows us to assess cannabinoids in emerging fluids and tissues like umbilical cord and oral fluid.
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In this interview, Dr. Madeleine Swortwood of Sam Houston State University talks to News-Medical Life Sciences about the symposium she will lead at Pittcon this year on the analytical challenges of cannabis and its impacts on driving and public health.
What role does cannabis play in 2021, especially in the realm of public health?
With increased medicinal and recreational use, we really need to have a solid understanding of how this is going to impact drug-impaired driving, workplace safety and even accidental toxic exposures.
What are some analytical challenges and impacts on driving and public health when studying cannabis in biological contexts? What innovative analytical methodologies have emerged to address these challenges?
There is really a lot of disagreement when it comes to cannabis safety, especially with regards to human performance and impairment. We are going to discuss why cannabis impairment is challenging to establish and the difficulty of instituting limits like we have established with the alcohol 0.08.
We now have the ability, from an analytical standpoint, to detect lower levels of cannabinoids, and we also have the ability to identify and quantify other cannabinoid markers. With sensitive instrumentation this allows us to assess cannabinoids in emerging fluids and tissues like umbilical cord and oral fluid.
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