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PA: Court orders release on medical cannabis data regarding, “how many medical marijuana patients have received approval from a doctor to use cannabis for opioid addiction treatment.”

Cannabis Law Report

A panel of Commonwealth Court judges has ordered the Wolf administration to reveal how many medical marijuana patients have received approval from a doctor to use cannabis for opioid addiction treatment. The newsroom specifically requested aggregate data — information that would not identify individual patients.

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CDC Seeks Public Comments Regarding Chronic Pain Management

NORML

The call for comments, posted on April 17 at regulations.gov here , states: “Interested persons or organizations are invited to participate by submitting written views, recommendations, and data related to perspectives on and experiences with pain and pain management. percent in 2016).”

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Finding ‘Releaf’: Put Data in Your Pipe and Smoke It

The Cannigma

When you walk into a hardware store, pharmacy, or even a liquor store, if you don’t know exactly what product will meet your needs there’s someone educated enough to point you to the right product and the data to back up that recommendation, says Tyler Dautrich, COO of Releaf. So Releaf app is an app that we released back in 2016.

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CDC Still Soliciting Comments Regarding Chronic Pain Management Solutions

NORML

The agency’s call for comments, initially posted on April 17 at regulations.gov here , states: “Interested persons or organizations are invited to participate by submitting written views, recommendations, and data related to perspectives on and experiences with pain and pain management. percent in 2016).”

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Spotlight PA Requests Pennsylvania Administration To Reveal Details Of Cannabis Use As Drug Addiction Treatment

Cannabis Law Report

HARRISBURG — The public could soon know for the first time how many patients use medical marijuana to treat opioid use disorder in Pennsylvania, one of the few states to specifically endorse that treatment option. Cordeiro died of an overdose a few weeks later. Yet, the director of the Office of Medical Marijuana, John J.

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New Research Shows How Medicinal Cannabis Eases Cancer Pain and Reduces Opioid Dependence

Veriheal

But what if a safe and effective complementary plant-based treatment was widely available to alleviate cancer pain? According to a 2016 study , about 39.3% of patients experience pain after curative treatment, while 66.4% in cancer patients undergoing anticancer treatment, 50.7% years between May 2015 and October 2018.

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In his first article of the new year, Raphael Mechoulam and other Israeli scientists look at the “real life experiences of medical cannabis treatment in autism.” Around 10-20% of patients stopped taking various medications (mostly antipsychotic and antiepileptic drugs) within 6 months of starting cannabis treatment. Cannabis and ADHD.