{"id":9439,"date":"2022-09-27T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/university-of-sydney-to-offer-free-cannabis-testing\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:07:53","slug":"university-of-sydney-to-offer-free-cannabis-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/university-of-sydney-to-offer-free-cannabis-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Sydney to Offer Free Cannabis Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\t\t<!-- END .ss-inline-share-wrapper --><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0University of Sydney\u00a0is launching a fairly robust study in an attempt to, as the university describes it, \u201cinvestigate cannabis consumption, behaviours, and attitudes among users.\u201d Part of the study involves offering free, anonymous cannabis testing for people that cultivate their own cannabis in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).<\/p>\n<p>Cannabis was decriminalized in 2020 in the ACT and the university is researching any societal issues that may have arisen from the public policy change, as well as gain insight into the potency and varieties of cannabis that patients and consumers are using.<\/p>\n<p>Free cannabis testing is available to both medical patients and non-medical patients, although only people that are current residents of the ACT can participate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><figcaption><sub> Part of the study involves offering free, anonymous cannabis testing for people who cultivate their own cannabis<\/sub>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe cannabis collected from growers\u2019 homes will be analysed for cannabis content, including its main psychoactive components \u2013 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and non-intoxicating cannabidiol\u00a0 (CBD) \u2013 \u00a0as well as a range of other cannabinoids and biologically active molecules, free of charge.\u00a0 Participants will be able to view, anonymously, the analysis results from their cannabis samples online,\u201d the university stated in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Initial results from the University of Sydney study are expected to be released in early 2023 and will presumably be used by lawmakers and regulators to craft regional and national cannabis policies and industry regulations. International cannabis observers will likely also benefit from reviewing the results.<\/p>\n<p>Studies like this one can be very insightful because it involves cannabis that is actually being cultivated and consumed by people in real life versus cannabis that is cultivated by the government that often does not resemble the cannabis that people are actually consuming. Results from the latter types of studies always have to be taken with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <\/em><em>Internationalcbc.com<\/em><em> and is syndicated here with special permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pp-multiple-authors-wrapper multiple-authors-target-the-content pp-multiple-authors-layout-boxed\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"author_index_1\">\n<div>\n                                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/692228e85cccdf217494d1c1c58c056d?s=80&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/692228e85cccdf217494d1c1c58c056d?s=160&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"multiple-authors-description\">Johnny Green is the Media and Content Director for the International Cannabis Business Conference and has blogged about cannabis since January 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"multiple-authors-links\">\n<p>                            <span>View all posts<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                                                    <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-email-alt\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cannatechtoday.com\/university-of-sydney-to-offer-free-cannabis-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0University of Sydney\u00a0is launching a fairly robust study in an attempt to, as the university describes it, \u201cinvestigate cannabis consumption, behaviours, and attitudes among users.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultimatehealthreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}