Season 8 Episode 5: Medical Cannabis Falls Short and Dog Diabetes
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The episode discusses the effectiveness of medical cannabis for mental health issues and explores a meta-analysis on the subject.
Send us Fan Mail The most convincing health claims are the ones that feel personal, and few topics are as personal as medical cannabis for mental health. We take on a huge Lancet meta-analysis that pulled together 54 trials and thousands of participants to ask a simple question: does medical cannabis actually help anxiety, depression, and PTSD more than placebo? The answer is uncomfortable, especially given how common “medical marijuana for mental health” has become, and we walk through what ...
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