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CDC Still Soliciting Comments Regarding Chronic Pain Management Solutions

NORML

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still seeking public comments on how Americans with chronic pain are successfully treating their symptoms. CDC invites comments specifically on topics focused on using or prescribing opioid pain medications, non-opioid medications, or non-pharmacological treatments.

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How Medical Cannabis Can Manage Chronic Pain

Canna Care Docs

You may get relief without side effects associated with traditional pain medications. Patients dealing with chronic pain from numerous conditions are finding relief in cannabis. Navigating the journey of medical cannabis for chronic pain involves understanding: How it works in the body.

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Study: Daily Cannabis Use Among Pain Patients Associated with Less Non-Prescription Opioid Use

NORML

Patients suffering from persistent pain conditions who frequently use cannabis are far less likely to use non-prescription opioids, according to longitudinal data published in the journal PLOS One. Authors reported β€œan independent negative association between frequent cannabis use and frequent illicit opioid use.” ’

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New Mexico: Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Decriminalization, Other Reform Bills

NORML

It expands the pool of patients eligible for cannabis therapy to include those diagnosed with post-traumatic stress, severe chronic pain, Crohn’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, sleep apnea, and neuropathy, among other newly specified conditions.

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New Jersey: Medical Marijuana Expansion Measure Signed Into Law

NORML

Phil Murphy signed legislation into law today significantly amending and expanding the state’s medical cannabis access program. Assembly Bill 20 , The Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act, institutes various changes to the program to better facilitate patients’ access to the substance.

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How Medical Marijuana May Help Reduce Opioid Use

Kind Meds (Cannabis Education Blog)

As a part of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, Marijuana in Arizona can be used to treat: β€œA chronic or debilitating disease, medical condition or the treatment that causes: Cachexia or wasting syndrome. Severe and chronic pain. States with Medical Marijuana Programs Fill Less Opioid Prescriptions.

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From MMJ to Special K

Project CBD

But the quality of the government-issue reefer matters less than the fact that Uncle Sam has been supplying him with it regularly since 1982, when Rosenfeld won the right to smoke cannabis for reasons of medical necessity under the auspices of the federal government’s Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) program. J Clin Med.