Medical Marijuana Can Be A Huge Help For People In Pain -- With A Few Stipulations

People who experience chronic pain can go for years without relief, jumping from one medication to the next without necessarily relieving any of their symptoms.

But hope for these conditions has been found in the form of medical marijuana — as long as doctors continue to study it and prescribe it.

Dr. Mark Ware is one of the preeminent physicians in the world when it comes to pain management and treatment. As the director of clinical research at the Alan Edwards Pain Unit at the McGill University Health Centre (as well as an associate professor at the university and the executive director of the Canadian Consortium for the Investigation of Cannabinoids), he's spent the last 16 years investigating how medical marijuana can reduce pain in patients.

"I'm a big proponent of the interdisciplinary approach — taking a multiple approach to manage, live and find ways to alleviate some...

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