What’s driving a boom in medicinal cannabis scripts?
Australian research shows the drug is being prescribed for chronic pain, anxiety and sleep disorders, says co-author Associate Professor Vicki Kots…
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Pandemic party time? How Australia’s illicit drugs scene changed with COVID-19
Addiction experts analyse the set-backs and the advances that coincided with lockdown.
Patient amputates own penis while in cannabis-induced psychosis: case
Thai doctors reported that he was experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations, which resolved within four weeks of abstaining from cannabis.
Many patients with endometriosis secretly using cannabis: survey
Australian study reveals three in four women with condition self-medicate with cannabis to self-treat pain, but fear telling their doctors about it…
Toddler left in coma after eating marijuana ‘edibles’: case
US doctors report on a two-year-old who developed TCH poisoning and needed to be intubated after finding her dad's stash.
Medicinal cannabis ‘worth trialling for chronic pain’
An international panel suggests there is a role for the medication when other interventions fail.
Proportion of schizophrenia cases tied to cannabis ‘rising’
This needs to be considered in discussions on changing regulations for use of the substance, researchers say.
More than 1 in 3 pain patients ask doctors about cannabis
Many of the doctors are reluctant to prescribe, citing cost and lack of knowledge, survey shows.
GP enters Parliament pledging to legalise cannabis ‘in all forms’
'People are automatically made a criminal because they’ve tried to treat themselves', Dr Brian Walker says.
Cannabidiol ‘temporally linked’ to puberty in two-year-old
The child was being treated for epilepsy by his mother using cannabis oil bought online.
