A volunteer helps Alex Barak to smoke cannabis at the Tikun Olam company clinic on March 03, 2011 in Tel Aviv, Israel. In conjunction with Israel’s Health Ministry, Tikon Olam are currently distributing cannabis for medicinal purposes to over 1800 people
As we reported previously, scientists from the University of New Mexico have been studying how access to marijuana may help alleviate the opioid crisis, declared a national emergency by President Trump.
Their study has now been published in the journal PLOS One, with the researchers concluding that there is “clinically and statistically significant evidence” that increased cannabis use led to patients cutting down on opioids and improved their quality of life.The study analyzed the health data of 66 patients who were using opioids habitually to manage their severe chronic pain. 37 of the patients were enrolled in a medical marijuana program between 2010 and 2015 while 29 patients in…
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