Cannabis showed lower efficacy as an analgesic in women than in men, in a new controlled study of its effects on response to a pain stimulus among people using the substance recreationally.
The study by Ziva Cooper, PhD, assistant professor, and Margaret Haney, PhD, professor of clinical neurobiology in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, in New York City, demonstrated this sex-dependent analgesic effect in men and women who reported similar responses to the