Medical providers may now issue cannabis authorizations to any patient for whom they believe “the benefit of the medical use of cannabis would likely outweigh the health risks.”
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Ninety percent of endometriosis patients say that they would recommend cannabis “to a friend or relative with the disease.”
Patients’ medical cannabis use does not measurably impact their reaction time or information processing speed, researchers concluded.
Cannabis treatment was associated with improvements in epilepsy‐specific outcomes, alongside improvements in anxiety, sleep quality, and health-related quality of life.
Researchers reported that medical cannabis is associated with “significant improvements in post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety, sleep quality, and quality of life.”
“This is one of the clearest, most dramatic validations of medical cannabis in cancer care that the scientific community has ever seen.”
Patients with chronic conditions experience statistically significant improvements in pain, fatigue, sleep, and overall health.
Cannabis use is associated with improvements in pain-specific and general health-related quality of life outcomes in cancer pain patients.