Eighty-seven percent of PD patients exhibited improvements following their use of medical cannabis tinctures.
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Nearly one in four IBD patients report using cannabis.
Athletes reported significant decreases in pain and improvements in their quality of life during the course of the study.
“These results suggest that both [cannabis] oils and dried flowers are associated with long-term improved quality of life in chronic pain patients,” investigators concluded.
“Patients with a diagnosis of cannabis use filled a significantly reduced volume of opioids … after [surgery] compared to their control counterparts,” scientists determined.
The new agreement codifies changes first implemented on a temporary basis in 2020.
The new law creates a process for residents to “verify whether automatic expungement has occurred, and [to] request expedited automatic expungement if eligible charges have not yet been expunged.”
The bill’s sponsor says that the results will be used for purposes of establishing probable cause only; a positive test result would be not viewed as prima facie evidence of impairment.