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Educate Yourself: Cannabis as Medicine

Cannabis for medical use is a frequent question from patients. Cannabis is most often medically used for patients undergoing chemotherapy or suffering from HIV. A certain type of THC was approved for nausea and vomiting for chemotherapy patients in 1986 and it is widely used by oncologists for this purpose. THC was also approved for anorexia for HIV patients; however, some data showed it was less effective. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved synthetic THC-based medications, and research is currently underway about the long term effects.

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