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Clinical Trial: Cannabinoid Administration Via a Metered-Dose Inhaler Is Safe and Effective for Chronic Pain Patients

NORML

The delivery of precise doses of THC via an inhaler is associated with pain mitigation in patients with neuropathy and other complex pain conditions, according to clinical trial data published in the European Journal of Pain. Additional information regarding cannabinoids and pain appears online h ere.

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Report: Efficacy and safety of medical cannabinoids in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Cannabis Law Report

Despite the increased use of medical cannabinoids, the efficacy and safety of the treatment among children remain uncertain. The objective was to study the efficacy and safety of medical cannabinoids in children. A qualitative assessment suggests that medical cannabinoids might be associated with adverse mental events.

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Medicinal cannabis users in the UK could be unfairly criminalised as study finds failures in roadside drug testing

Cannabis Law Report

The double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial took place over two years between 2017 and 2019 at the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California. Campaigners are calling for the government to revise the current laws and bring them up to date with contemporary data.

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Cannabis Helps, Say Over Half of Parkinson’s Patients Who Use It

The Cannigma

Medical cannabis was legally approved in Germany in 2017 when approval was given for therapy-resistant symptoms in severely affected patients independent of diagnosis and without clinical evidence-based data,” lead investigator Professor Carsten Buhmann of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf explained in a statement.

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New Study: Demographic and policy-based differences in behaviors and attitudes towards driving after marijuana use: an analysis of the 2013–2017 Traffic Safety Culture Index

Cannabis Law Report

Studies of crash or driving data suggest that, although permissive marijuana policies are associated with higher prevalence of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) presence among drivers [ 1 , 2 ], there is mixed evidence that these policies are associated with motor vehicle crashes [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 ]. Materials and methods. Study sample.

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Medical cannabis studies offer hope to opioid users

Healer

THC is the main psychoactive compound in marijuana, while CBD is a non-intoxicating cannabinoid found in the cannabis plant. Seventeen of 19 pre-clinical studies provided “robust” evidence of the opioid-sparing effects of cannabinoids, but one of the nine clinical studies provided “very low-quality” evidence of such, according to the review.

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Pain Relief: Marijuana vs. Opioids

CannaMD

In addition, data from the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health showed a potential inverse relationship between marijuana and opioid use, based on data that reported a drop of opioid misuse from 2016 to 2017 (from 11.8 million to 11.4 Study author, Thomas R.