Terrible article, repeatedly ignoring patients' lived experience. Biased, patronising, and outdated. Misinformation like this belongs in the past century.

> a gulf between how the public perceives cannabis and what gold-standard science shows

> The evidence does not support the use of cannabis or cannabinoids at this point for most of the indications that folks are using it for

> Pain is a leading reason people use medical cannabis, but the review found no evidence to indicate that cannabis could ease acute pain

> cannabis is classified federally along with heroin and LSD as having no medical purpose and a high propensity for misuse

As a non user, I would observe they didn't say no effects, it depends. If it didn't work for PTSD with vets (as one example) it did have measurable benefits for anxiety with non PTSD patients.

And, pharmaceutical grade, non (or less) psychoactive doses did work for appetite, nausea issues in cancer treatment and like situations and for paediatric fitting.

But the evidence for glaucoma seemed more mixed.

The problem is the vast bulk of non pharmaceutical, cannabis dispensary use, which appear to have a remarkably low bar to be dispensed.

I liked the rather wry observation that people taking it for sleep regulation probably restarted because of withdrawal symptoms before they could objectively say if it was necessary for sleep, if stopped.