Knowledge for safe and appropriate use of cannabis as a medicine

To get to the next step in the prescription of cannabis-based medication, there needs to be randomized controlled trials. The licensed producers of cannabis have to come up with a fund for the trials so that people can see its benefits and also make sure there are no negative side effects of using cannabis in the longer term.

There is a College of Family Physicians of Canada guide related to the use of medical cannabis, which recommends the THC levels to be at or below 9 percent and CBD levels to be from 9 to 12 percent.

There is specificity between the types of cannabis that attack cancer cells. A specific type of cannabis will attack colon cancer but do nothing to the prostate cancer. When grown in different environments, cannabis shows different properties.

There was a laboratory test to find out the anti-cancer effects of cannabis. The results showed that different types of cannabis killed different types of cancer cells.

Research shows that cannabis helps to reduce the aggressiveness and anxiety of autistic kids, and improve their sleep and communication.

Research showed that when there is a structured program to control the use of opioid medication and education involved in access to cannabis, there is a significant reduction in opioid. People are gaining knowledge about the endocannabinoid system and the benefits of cannabis.

In 2015, the number of opioid injections was reduced in the areas that cannabis was more accessible. American Medical Association reported that there was a correlation between the availability of cannabis and the number of opiate prescriptions filled in the United States. The number of prescriptions filled per day was reduced by 2.2 million in areas after cannabis became accessible.

Over the last decade, doctors have increasingly prescribed opiate medication for chronic pain and thousands of patients have died due to opiate overdoses. While some drugs can make you feel like a zombie and lose emotion. At Spartan Wellness, they assist people in alternative medicine solutions such as cannabis to allow them to have different alternatives to opiate medications.

Thousands of people are dying every year in Canada from overdoses of opioids. Most of them are thought to have become addicted to these drugs through medical prescriptions. Doctors have found that cannabis can be a possible replacement for opioid-based medications.

Thousands of people die every year in Canada from overdoses of opioid-based medication. Doctors are now looking to medical marijuana for chronic pain.

Although cannabis can potentially be a replacement for opioid-based medication, you can’t just start to take cannabis one day and stop opioids the next day. More research is needed on how to integrate cannabis from a pathway perspective so it's safe to wean patients off of their opioids with the utilization of cannabis.

The medical cannabis opioid reduction program was created to help patients replace opioids with other drugs. Cannabis is a possible substitute.