Medical marijuana may prove to have other health benefits, but relief of chronic pain and, subsequently, its potential as a viable alternative to opioids do not appear to be among them, according to Australian researchers.
The study, published in Lancet Public Health (2018;3[7]: e341-e350), found “no evidence of a temporal relationship between cannabis use and pain severity or pain interference,” according to the authors. Furthermore, the researchers found “no evidence that