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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Health Experts Weigh In on Safety of Marijuana-Based Vaginal Suppository to Relieve Menstrual Cramps 🌿Health Experts Weigh In on Safety of Marijuana-Based Vaginal Suppository to Relieve Menstrual Cramps
A cannabis-based vaginal suppository is now on the market, claiming to help relieve menstrual cramps – but even if you were willing to try this very unorthodox method of dealing with period pain, should you?
Floria Relief – which contains only three ingredients: organic cocoa butter, CO2 distilled THC oil and CBD Isolate – promises "to maximize the muscle relaxing and pain relieving properties of cannabis without inducing a psychotropic 'high,' " but it is has not been clinically tested or FDA-approved.
"Would I recommend something that's not FDA-approved or monitored? That would not be my recommendation," Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, professor of obstetrics & gynecology and director of midlife health at the University of Virginia Health Center, tells PEOPLE. "You'd want to do a clinical trial to see how much [of the medication] women absorbed. Are they being under-dosed? Are they being overdosed?"
Pinkerton notes that...
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