Medicinal cannabis caution urged
Using medicinal cannabis to relieve chronic pain in people who don't have cancer is likely to be far more risky than beneficial, say specialists.
The evidence supporting its use by those sufferers is weak and based more on anecdote than sound clinical science and practice, they say.
The Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists on Wednesday urged caution in the face of ongoing calls for cannabinoids to be used to treat chronic non-cancer pain.
Faculty director of professional affairs, Professor Milton Cohen, referred to a lack of any sound evidence showing the treatments were effective saying its efficacy needed to be rigorously demonstrated.
"At this stage we are concerned that the risks of medicinal cannabis are likely to greatly outweigh any benefit in patients with chronic non-cancer pain," he said.
Those risks included adding another drug to a condition where patients are often...
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