Older aged individuals experience considerable improvement in health and well-being when prescribed cannabis-based medicinal products—though this is an observational registry without a control group, so causality cannot be established.
Older Adults Prescribed Cannabis in UK Show Self-Reported Well-Being Gains, But Study Design Cannot Confirm Treatment Caused Improvement
Older aged individuals experience considerable improvement in health and well-being when prescribed cannabis-based medicinal products—though the study design, lacking a comparator group, cannot exclude placebo response, regression to the mean, or natural disease course as explanations.
Large Canadian Study Documents How Older Adults Use Medical Cannabis — But Cannot Prove It Works
The majority of older adults reported improvements in pain (72.7%), sleep (64.5%), and mood (52.8%) at follow-up after cannabis use; however, without a control group these perceived improvements cannot be attributed to cannabis itself.
Real-Time and Long-Term Effects of Medical Marijuana on Older Adults: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Study.
Older adults represent the fastest-growing group of medical marijuana (MM) users in the United States, with chronic pain being the most common reason for use…
Recent Trends in Cannabis Use in Adults Ages 60 Years and Older.
This narrative review highlights the growing population of older adults (OA) who use cannabis and health considerations of cannabis use especially relevant t…