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Medical Cannabis for the Primary Care Physician
Medical cannabis use is common in the United States and increasingly more socially acceptable. As more patients seek out and acquire medical cannabis, primary care physicians will be faced with a growing number of patients seeking information on the indications, efficacy, and safety of medical canna...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31646929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2150132719884838 |
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author | Slawek, Deepika Meenrajan, Senthil Raj Alois, Marika Rose Comstock Barker, Paige Estores, Irene Mison Cook, Robert |
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description | Medical cannabis use is common in the United States and increasingly more socially acceptable. As more patients seek out and acquire medical cannabis, primary care physicians will be faced with a growing number of patients seeking information on the indications, efficacy, and safety of medical cannabis. We present a case of a patient with several chronic health conditions who asks her primary care provider whether she should try medical cannabis. We provide a review of the pharmacology of medical cannabis, the state of evidence regarding the efficacy of medical cannabis, variations in the types of medical cannabis, and safety monitoring considerations for the primary care physician. |
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spelling | pubmed-68201882019-11-06 Medical Cannabis for the Primary Care Physician Slawek, Deepika Meenrajan, Senthil Raj Alois, Marika Rose Comstock Barker, Paige Estores, Irene Mison Cook, Robert J Prim Care Community Health Reviews Medical cannabis use is common in the United States and increasingly more socially acceptable. As more patients seek out and acquire medical cannabis, primary care physicians will be faced with a growing number of patients seeking information on the indications, efficacy, and safety of medical cannabis. We present a case of a patient with several chronic health conditions who asks her primary care provider whether she should try medical cannabis. We provide a review of the pharmacology of medical cannabis, the state of evidence regarding the efficacy of medical cannabis, variations in the types of medical cannabis, and safety monitoring considerations for the primary care physician. SAGE Publications 2019-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6820188/ /pubmed/31646929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2150132719884838 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Reviews Slawek, Deepika Meenrajan, Senthil Raj Alois, Marika Rose Comstock Barker, Paige Estores, Irene Mison Cook, Robert Medical Cannabis for the Primary Care Physician |
title | Medical Cannabis for the Primary Care Physician |
title_full | Medical Cannabis for the Primary Care Physician |
title_fullStr | Medical Cannabis for the Primary Care Physician |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical Cannabis for the Primary Care Physician |
title_short | Medical Cannabis for the Primary Care Physician |
title_sort | medical cannabis for the primary care physician |
topic | Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820188/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31646929 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2150132719884838 |
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