New developments in the burgeoning field of cannabinoid research
By Nate Seltenrich on July 07, 2021
Relatively few of these papers describe studies conducted with human beings. Many present results from experiments in animals (typically rats, mice, or zebrafish), and some are even more theoretical and removed from the results with which we’re most concerned, those pertaining to actual human health outcomes.
A new paper out of Canada caught our eye because it evaluated a range of outcomes among a large number of patients at a medical cannabis clinic in Quebec (279, to be exact) who had used both CBDand THC in the course of their daily lives over a period of up to six months. Published in the Journal of Cannabis Research, the paper includes some intriguing results – with the important caveat (common to all real-world or “naturalistic” observational studies due to the lack of a control group) that a cause-effect relationship cannot be inferred.