About three in 10 adults with chronic pain who live in states with medical cannabis laws reported using cannabis to manage their pain, according to researchers, highlighting the need for more research on the subject.
Although most states have laws that allow people to use cannabis for chronic pain treatment, accurate estimates of cannabis use or its substitution of treatments for chronic pain are unavailable, Mark C. Bicket, MD, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of anesthesiology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote in JAMA Network Open.
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