To medicate with marijuana or not, that’s the question
‘Does medical marijuana ‘work’?” That question, posed in an illuminating new book by David Casarett, a hospice physician and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, sounds simple and turns out to be anything but.
The short answer is that it depends on the symptom or problem being treated, on the physiology of the patient using it, on the mode of drug delivery (a joint? a brownie? a vapor pen? a beer?) and on various other factors. A small but growing trove of research suggests that for some symptoms — insomnia, nausea, certain kinds of pain, muscle spasms, perhaps even the disabling anxiety of post-traumatic stress disorder or the agitation often experienced by people with Alzheimer’s — medical marijuana does work. And for some other conditions, marijuana or drugs based on some of its active ingredients appear promising.
“It’s starting to look to me like marijuana might offer real medical benefits,” Casarett...
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