Cannabis treatment is associated with significant decreases in patients’ pain intensity and pain frequency, as well as reductions in participants’ reliance on prescription analgesics.
Year: 2026
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Specifically, the passage of adult-use cannabis legalization laws is associated with reductions in high-dose opioid prescribing and opioid/benzodiazepine co-prescribing.
“Findings suggest that cannabis use among older adults may be more common and clinically significant than suggested by prior evidence.”
Among US nursing students, fewer than 1 in 5 acknowledged “feeling prepared to answer questions about medical cannabis.”
“These results show great promise in using cannabis for treating the symptoms that occur with cancer and cancer-related treatments.”
“All pain-specific measures showed improvements at each follow-up period,” the study’s authors concluded.
Respondents who identified as Republicans were more likely than Democrats to say that cannabis posed significant risks.
Study participants rated cannabis’ efficacy in the treatment of eating disorders as “superior to all prescription drugs.”