Cannabis is not an effective treatment for common mental health conditions despite the global surge in patients using it for that purpose, a review has found.
No! I’m astonished to find that out!
Researchers concluded there was “very little evidence for its efficacy” in treating anxiety, anorexia nervosa, psychotic disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder or opioid use disorder. Experts from universities in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in Australia and Bath in England undertook the largest and most comprehensive analysis to date of the evidence for using cannabinoids – cannabis-based therapies – to treat substance misuse and mental health disorders.
Well, you could knock me down with a feather!
Sir Robin Murray, a professor of psychiatric research at King’s College London, said: “While people such as me consider that the therapeutic benefits of cannabis are extremely limited, and the side effects common, the world doesn’t believe this.
Well, you wouldn't be the first (or only) expert who is no longer trusted as you once would have been, but in this instance you should be.
“Bolstered by the claims of the cannabis industry and the rapidly increasing cannabis clinics in the UK, many people are misled into using cannabis to treat their problems. In my view, the UK cannabis clinics operate as drug dealers for the middle class.”
The middle class? I though that they were all on Charlie? Pot strikes me as a lower class drug...
Hung by their own petard. People no longer believe experts since we were told Gordo was a financial wizard, Millipede a climate expert and our Fauci was a medical genius etc. People can see what these self serving useless pieces of shit are and don't believe the tales any longer.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really that interested in cannabis myself. Let those that want to use it use it and there will be consequences for that. But there are consequences for eating the wrong food.
The problem is, those consequences seem to fall on innocent people too much of the time…
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