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I was mentioning yesterday the low quality, dubious nature of too many cannabis studies. And here’s another one…

The link is to the website for the National Library of Medicine and the study was published in the most recent issue of the journal Antioxidants. What exactly is "dubious" or "low quality" about it? Please explain.

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MDPI?

Just because something is linked in the National Library doesn’t make it non-dubious…

Yes. I wonder how impact factor can be gamed…

The Scimago impact factor is 1. Know what that suggests?

It was published in the journal Antioxidants which has an impact factor of 7.6.

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I know, right? What were they smoking?

Oh.

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Well weed IS a flower. Apparently bees love cannabis because the pollen is super sweet

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I had always thought the ECS was only present in vertebrates?

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It’s almost like cannabis and hemp are crucial parts of the ecosystem and a worldwide effort to stem wild or maintained growth has been bad for the environment

And 10 years ago there were zero (in the US). Pick your poison.

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