A 45-day longitudinal study tracked daily anxiety relief in 416 medical cannabis patients. Cannabis-use days showed larger same-day reductions, but the design limits causal conclusions. Here’s what the data support, and what they don’t.
Medical Cannabis at a Crossroads
Medical cannabis is not vanishing, it is being hollowed out. As adult-use markets explode, medical programs quietly wither into card mills, and a federal hemp crackdown threatens the improvised bridge many patients have relied on. At this medical cannabis crossroads, the real question is not whether people will keep using cannabis, but whether they will still have anyone to walk that road with them in a way that truly heals.