Insufficient management of cancer-associated chronic and neuropathic pain adversely affects patient quality of life. Patients who do not respond well to opioid analgesics, or have severe side effects from the use of traditional analgesics are in need of alternative therapeutic op-tions.
This article reviews the literature on the use of marijuana in the elderly. Pharmacists play an important role in the management of medications including drug use of potentially illegal drugs, including marijuana.
This review discusses three different associations between cannabinoids and cancer. First, it assesses evidence that smoking of cannabis preparations may cause cancers of the aerodigestive and respiratory system.
The use of cannabis for the treatment of migraine has become an area of interest with the legalization of medical cannabis in the USA.
New regulations are in place at the federal and provincial levels in Canada regarding the way medical cannabis is to be controlled.
The use of cannabis for the treatment of migraine has become an area of interest with the legalization of medical cannabis in the USA.
Medical cannabis use is common in the United States and increasingly more socially acceptable. As more patients seek out and acquire medical cannabis, primary care physicians will be faced with a growing number of patients seeking information on the indications, efficacy, and safety of medical cannabis.
Medical cannabis use is increasingly common in Australia. Patients and physicians need to be aware of the important implications that such use may have for driving.
Tomorrow, 3,071 prisoners locked up for cannabis-related drug crimes will be released from prisons all over Thailand.
Researchers in Australia found that 1,500mgs of cannabidiol (CBD) – the highest daily medicinal dose available there – has “no impact” on people’s driving or cognitive abilities.