University of Sydney – “Legal use of medicinal cannabis on the rise”

Recent research findings from the University of Sydney’s Lambert Initiative – studying the therapeutic use of medicinal cannabis for epilepsy, cancer, chronic pain, obesity, neurological, and mental health disorders – have revealed that people accessing prescription products is dramatically increasing.

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Findings from the study’s third Cannabis as Medicine Survey (CAMS20) showed that 37% of respondents reported using prescription cannabis. This indicated a 34.5% increase in the prescription use of cannabis amongst respondents in comparison to the previous survey.

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Notably, this shift from the illicit to the legal use of cannabis also represented a transition towards safer ways of using cannabis. Respondents that were using prescribed products reported being more likely to vaporize their cannabis or to use oral products, as opposed to illicit cannabis users who were more likely to smoke their cannabis.

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