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Even if some experts believe more research on the effectiveness of medical cannabis is needed, users undergoing the controversial treatment believe it works – at least for certain conditions.
A little more than 75% of users said they use medical cannabis because other treatments aren’t as effective or cause too many side effects, or both, according to the results of a survey conducted by PatientsLikeMe. The patient-powered search network didn’t ask participants any further questions about past treatments.
Sally Okun, vice president of Advocacy, Policy, and Patient Safety at PatientsLikeMe, told Forbes that even though the survey didn’t ask respondents about previous treatments, it’s safe to infer things from the data or prior research.
“For example we know multiple sclerosis has a host of disease modifying treatments,” she said. “While we don’t expect people will replace them with medical marijuana, they may be using marijuana to manage associated symptoms that disease...
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