Whoopi Goldberg Is Launching a Line of Marijuana Products to Treat Period Pain. There's No Science Behind Them.
Oscar-, Grammy-, and Emmy-winning actress and self-proclaimed weed lover Whoopi Goldberg is throwing her name behind a new line of medical marijuana-based edibles and bath products aimed at women.
Hailed by MSNBC as a "culmination of a movement toward changing the narrative on legal weed," the Whoopi & Maya products — a bath soak, sipping chocolate, tincture, and rub — are supposed to soothe menstrual cramps and discomfort.
Goldberg is 60, and long past menopause. But she's passionate about medical marijuana, which she uses to alleviate her severe glaucoma-related headaches. And she and business partner Maya Elisabeth saw an opportunity: "I have grown granddaughters who have severe cramps, so I said this is what I want to work on," Goldberg told Vanity Fair.
There's just one wrinkle: There's absolutely no science behind marijuana as an analgesic for period pain. And with the legal landscape...
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