Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Research Challenges Pot’s Medical Efficacy

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Put that in your pipe and smoke it — just don’t expect it to calm your angst. In a new analysis of 80 clinical trials on cannabinoid therapy, researchers attempted to make sense of the studies — most of them more than a decade old — to extract useful conclusions. They found that ganja can be great for chronic pain, but not so much for anxiety, and that further study is needed. With medical marijuana legal in 23 U.S. states, volunteer subjects are no doubt anxious to help cut through the haze.

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