State laws permitting patients to home-cultivate medical cannabis were among those associated with the most significant improvements in their mental health.
Region: United Kingdom
Investigators concluded that cannabis treatment “is associated with significant improvements in well-being and quality of life in PTSD.”
Cannabis dosing improves sleep in patients who had previously failed to respond to currently licensed treatments for insomnia.
Patients presenting with severe baseline anxiety were most likely to experience a clinically significant improvement in anxiety symptoms at 12 months.
Patients who used cannabis flower were most likely to show clinical improvements.
“These results suggest that cannabis-based medicinal products may play a role in alleviating symptoms and co-morbid anxiety and sleep disruption associated with ADHD.”
“Few products had measured CBD concentrations within 10 percent of advertised concentrations, with most falling below advertised concentrations,” the study’s authors concluded.
Cannabis treatment was associated with reduced levels of anxiety and possessed “an acceptable safety profile in a real-world setting.”