Medical Marijuana: Smoking Out the Evidence
Medical marijuana has, in recent years, received more attention from voters, regulators, legislators and media than perhaps any pharmaceutical, and it has been approved for use in much of the nation.
Patients with cancer might therefore assume that doctors would thoroughly understand its benefits and drawbacks, and that the health care system would distribute it as efficiently as any other controlled treatment.
They would, however, be gravely mistaken.
Research within the United States on marijuana’s ability to control pain, combat nausea or stimulate appetite in patients with cancer ranges from thin to nonexistent.
“It’s hard to believe that we have so few good studies of a substance that has been used as a medication for thousands of years, but cannabis has long been a very difficult thing to study,” said Donald Abrams, an oncologist at the University of California San Francisco who has conducted a number of the peer-reviewed studies...
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