from Ben Adlin, Marijuana Moment:
New research on the use of medical marijuana for pain finds that it was “comparatively more effective than prescription medications” for treating chronic pain after a three-month period, and that many patients reduced their use of opioid painkillers while using cannabis.
The study, conducted in part by a federal researcher at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and funded by the state of Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana Academic Clinical Research Program, was published late last month in the journal Pain.
The report concludes that despite some methodological limitations, the analysis “was able to determine, using causal inference techniques, that use of medical marijuana for chronic pain under medical supervision is at least as effective and potentially more effective in relationship to patients with chronic pain treated by prescription medications (nonopioid or opioid).”
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