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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Daily Mail Corrects Another Cannabis Article In Response To CLEAR Complaint. 🌿Daily Mail Corrects Another Cannabis Article In Response To CLEAR Complaint.
On 24th June 2015, a Daily Mail headline screamed:
Medicinal cannabis DOESN’T ease pain, nausea, vomiting,
MS muscle contractions, sleep disorders or Tourette’s
In fact the study reported on, from the University of Bristol, found exactly the opposite. It showed that medicinal cannabis DOES ease pain, nausea, vomiting and the other conditions referred to.
The exact words of the study’s conclusion were:
There was moderate-quality evidence to support the use of cannabinoids for the treatment of chronic pain and spasticity. There was low-quality evidence suggesting that cannabinoids were associated with improvements in nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, weight gain in HIV infection, sleep disorders, and Tourette syndrome.
Not a terribly positive endorsement of medicinal cannabis, but the Daily Mail had published another bare faced lie. CLEAR made a formal complaint to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) and, as a result, the headline has been changed. It now reads:
Weak evidence
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