A New Zealand study into the therapeutic benefits of cannabis has added to the growing body of evidence that it has positive effects on pain, sleeplessness and anxiety, researchers say.
Of the 213 people in the study who were taking cannabis for therapeutic reasons, almost 96 per cent reported that taking cannabis helped them with a number of conditions, and 49 per cent said they had been able to reduce, or entirely stop their prescription medicine.
The study, a collaboration between researchers from the University of Otago, Victoria University, and the University of Auckland, aimed to explore people’s experiences of taking cannabis therapeutically, to gather data on the quality of products they were using, their efficacy and what kinds of effects they had experienced.
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