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Topic: Medical Cannabis

This topic is for articles about medical cannabis laws or legislation. For articles about the health properties of medical marijuana, please select “Health/Safety”.

a woman in a green slip dress smoking a legal cannabis joint leans back in bed with a relaxed smile

Survey: Endometriosis Patients Say Cannabis Is More Effective, Poses Fewer Side Effects Than Prescription Medications

Ninety percent of endometriosis patients say that they would recommend cannabis “to a friend or relative with the disease.”

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A person sits at their desk packing ground cannabis into a glass pipe. On the desktop is a laptop, keyboard, computer mouse, cannabis grinder, rolling tray, glass jar of cannabis, lighter, notebook, and pen.

Analysis: Few Changes in Patients’ Cognitive Performance Following Their Use of Medical Cannabis Products

Patients’ medical cannabis use does not measurably impact their reaction time or information processing speed, researchers concluded.

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Hand holds a vial of cannabis oil next to a cannabis bud resting atop printed results of an electroencephalogram

Study: Patients With Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy Improve Following Medical Cannabis Therapy

Cannabis treatment was associated with improvements in epilepsy‐specific outcomes, alongside improvements in anxiety, sleep quality, and health-related quality of life.

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Study: Post-Traumatic Stress Patients Experience Sustained Improvements Following Use of Medical Cannabis Products

Researchers reported that medical cannabis is associated with “significant improvements in post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety, sleep quality, and quality of life.”

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Image includes a leafy cannabis plant, the structural formula for THC and for CBD, and icons representing clinical applications for cannabis, like sleep and pain

Largest Ever Meta-Analysis: There Exists a “Strong Consensus Supporting the Therapeutic Use of Cannabis”

“This is one of the clearest, most dramatic validations of medical cannabis in cancer care that the scientific community has ever seen.”

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Study: Medical Cannabis Provides “Meaningful Improvements” in Patients’ Health-Related Quality of Life

Patients with chronic conditions experience statistically significant improvements in pain, fatigue, sleep, and overall health.

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Study: Cannabis Treatment Provides Sustained Relief for Cancer-Related Pain

Cannabis use is associated with improvements in pain-specific and general health-related quality of life outcomes in cancer pain patients.

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Minnesota: Many Patients Experience “Meaningful Reductions” in Pain Following Use of Medical Cannabis

“Almost one-third of patients experiencing moderate to severe pain at enrollment saw a meaningful reduction in pain symptoms within four months of treatment,” researchers determined.

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