Why no evidence of medical Cannabis efficiency exists?

Studies have been poorly designed — the evidence is unexplored

Joy Ride
3 min readJan 19, 2020
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Canada legalized Cannabis in October 2018. Health Canada issued a very detailed 266-pages report addressed to Health Care professionals to summarize all the knowns and unknowns of medical and recreational Cannabis consumption for general population.

Medical Cannabis is legal in Canada since 2001, almost twenty years later health care professionals opposed to prescribe or recommend medical cannabis for treating health conditions. Why? Because no studies have confirmed the so-called anecdotal reports. Anecdotal evidence is distinctly different from scientific evidence. Anecdotal reports are not taken seriously by MDs; the medical community requires randomized clinical studies. Otherwise, it’s more like a rumor to doctors, not a shred of real evidence. However, many health professionals are mindful of…

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Joy Ride

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