Patients’ overall pain scores decreased more than 30% over the length of the study.
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Expert scientific panels from Europe, Australia, and the United Kingdom have previously reached similar determinations.
The decision came despite polling data indicating that a large percentage of Massachusetts’ voters say they would have refused to sign the initiative petition had they better understood its intentions.
Consistent with the findings of prior surveys, most physicians said they were “not comfortable counseling patients of any age about cannabis use.”
Researchers identified no changes in patients’ enzyme levels in a manner that would be indicative of liver damage.
While all three interventions improved sleep quality, cannabis preparations provided additional improvements in patients’ overall health-related quality of life.
Long-term cannabis treatment reduced patients’ TS symptoms without adversely impacting their cognitive performance or psychological well-being.
Patients who consumed cannabis products “demonstrated sustained and clinically meaningful improvements in depression, anxiety, health-related quality of life, and sleep quality over 24 months.”