{"id":6252,"date":"2019-10-30T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T06:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:38","slug":"poor-evidence-cannabis-improves-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/30\/poor-evidence-cannabis-improves-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Evidence Cannabis Improves Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily Nation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People with\npsychiatric disorders may want to pass on the joint &#8212; at least until further\nresearch is done, a new Australian study suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper, published\nMonday in The Lancet Psychiatry, looked at 83 previous studies conducted over\nalmost four decades on medical cannabinoids, including products from the\ncannabis plant, such as leaves, buds and oils, as well as pharmaceutical-grade\ncannabinoids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors found\ninsufficient evidence that the products were safe and effective in treating six\ncommon disorders: depression, anxiety, attention-deficit hyperactivity\ndisorder, Tourette syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cannabis and cannabinoids are increasingly being made available for medicinal use in North America, Britain and Australia without being subjected to the standard process that includes testing and scrutinizing by government regulatory bodies, lead author Louisa Degenhardt told AFP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/lifestyle\/health\/Poor-evidence-cannabis-improves-mental-health\/1954202-5328652-wdnf60\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation People with psychiatric disorders may want to pass on the joint &#8212; at least until further research is done, a new Australian study suggests. The paper, published&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}