Industry seeks clearer data after study shows rising cannabis hospitalisations

We need to be clear about what is actually being recorded. The simple fact of the presence of THC metabolites in a urinary drug screen would say nothing at all about acute intoxication effects, but is routinely used to document “Cannabis Use Disorder” which may be inflating the true numbers by an order or two of magnitude. CUD itself is not an accurate description because anyone using – say for example – blood pressure medication would be diagnoseable as having a “blood pressure use disorder”. The institutions can skew the discussion using figures based on illusions rather than actual cause/effect and hence we need to be aware of the attacks on the industry arising from that perceptual bias.