Marijuana

Reviewing the challenges healthcare providers face in distinguishing between new and residual marijuana use in patients.

Paul Jannetto, Ph.D., and Loralie Langman, Ph.D., discuss Mayo Clinic Laboratories’ new marijuana monitoring evaluation, which identifies metabolites of both delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and delta-8 THC to accurately identify and characterize patients’ marijuana use.

In this episode of “Lab Medicine Rounds,” Justin Kreuter, M.D., sits down with Paul Jannetto, Ph.D., associate professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic, and discusses how CBD can affect your health, what the medical benefits are, and its impact on urine drugs of abuse testing.