herbivore21
Well-Known Member
Many of you may have noticed my relatively lower number of posts lately. I have been very busy with my scientific work at present and have not had a lot of time to post and respond to all of the correspondence that I receive from our community. I greatly appreciate the understanding that I've had from folks here while I've been busy and wanted to share a great big scholarly study that looks at the current state of cannabis research to keep you all busy!
The following is a book published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. These are large scale, peer-review meta-analyses of the bulk of the scholarly cannabis research out there on a variety of topics.
This is a fucking gargantuan book, but wonderfully, it is available in its entirety for free! Please use the following link, click the blue 'download free PDF' button and download this as a 'guest':
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24625/the-health-effects-of-cannabis-and-cannabinoids-the-current-state
Please understand that the overall crux of many of the findings in these studies is that cannabis research is far too scant, and at present, there is not a large enough body of literature to do more than gauge the strength of statistical correlations between cannabis use and health effects. However, this publication also debunks a variety of myths about cannabis dangers.
Please understand that the absence of clinical research in a great many of these areas owes to research regulations, and that these are actually cited as a major barrier to better research in this book. This book is not saying that Cannabis does not provide any benefits for the conditions it considers, but in many cases, it will say that we do not have enough scientifically collected information of a large enough scale to make broad judgements about efficacy that we can be sure will extrapolate beyond individual cases. This data could still come of course!
Remember that broad scale population based medical science requires better controlled, systematically gather and altogether much larger scale information than many of us would personally seek to make a personal medical decision. Medical cannabis research in much of the West is still in its infancy.
This is all said to highlight that while we don't have enough information yet by scientific standards, this does not preclude the possibility of that information eventually coming. At the moment, the early state of much cannabis research means that most of what we have are correlations and pre-clinical findings: the broad data that will allow us to more accurately predict and manipulate clinical outcomes is still to come.
I'll start to unpack some of the findings of this study in this thread as I get the opportunity, but if any of you guys are interested in discussing or clarifying anything in these studies, please put all such comments here! This review of the scholarly literature breaks down the findings by different kinds of health conditions, so many of you may like to review the findings relating to your own medical situation.
The following is a book published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. These are large scale, peer-review meta-analyses of the bulk of the scholarly cannabis research out there on a variety of topics.
This is a fucking gargantuan book, but wonderfully, it is available in its entirety for free! Please use the following link, click the blue 'download free PDF' button and download this as a 'guest':
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24625/the-health-effects-of-cannabis-and-cannabinoids-the-current-state
Please understand that the overall crux of many of the findings in these studies is that cannabis research is far too scant, and at present, there is not a large enough body of literature to do more than gauge the strength of statistical correlations between cannabis use and health effects. However, this publication also debunks a variety of myths about cannabis dangers.
Please understand that the absence of clinical research in a great many of these areas owes to research regulations, and that these are actually cited as a major barrier to better research in this book. This book is not saying that Cannabis does not provide any benefits for the conditions it considers, but in many cases, it will say that we do not have enough scientifically collected information of a large enough scale to make broad judgements about efficacy that we can be sure will extrapolate beyond individual cases. This data could still come of course!
Remember that broad scale population based medical science requires better controlled, systematically gather and altogether much larger scale information than many of us would personally seek to make a personal medical decision. Medical cannabis research in much of the West is still in its infancy.
This is all said to highlight that while we don't have enough information yet by scientific standards, this does not preclude the possibility of that information eventually coming. At the moment, the early state of much cannabis research means that most of what we have are correlations and pre-clinical findings: the broad data that will allow us to more accurately predict and manipulate clinical outcomes is still to come.
I'll start to unpack some of the findings of this study in this thread as I get the opportunity, but if any of you guys are interested in discussing or clarifying anything in these studies, please put all such comments here! This review of the scholarly literature breaks down the findings by different kinds of health conditions, so many of you may like to review the findings relating to your own medical situation.
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