Medical marijuana may help ease anxiety and chronic pain. Cannabis with THC can impair your judgment and reaction time, which increases accident risks. Smoking or vaping cannabis may lead to severe ...

Neuropathic pain is nerve pain coming from malfunctions of or damage to the nervous system (brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves). It is different from pain messages that are carried along healthy ...

A sweeping review of more than 2,500 studies reveals that despite booming public enthusiasm, cannabis has strong scientific support for only a few medical uses, leaving most popular claims—like relief ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 69-year-old man smokes a joint in his back yard in Florida, in 2021. Despite the lack of clear studies showing the efficacy of ...

High hopes for medical cannabis are going up in smoke. A bombshell new report found “insufficient evidence” to back up most of its supposed benefits — and raised serious red flags about hidden risks. ...

The meta-analysis examined data from 83 studies over the course of 40 years. The risks of using medicinal cannabinoids like CBD and marijuana to treat mental health problems may outweigh any benefits, ...

There is “insufficient” evidence supporting the use of cannabis or cannabinoids for most medical purposes, a new review has concluded. “We reviewed the totality of the evidence—over a thousand studies ...

Benjamin Han, a geriatrician and addiction medicine specialist at the University of California-San Diego, tells his students a cautionary tale about a 76-year-old patient who, like many older people, ...

Timing is everything. How any drug affects your brain is determined by many factors. Your age at the time of exposure is one of the most important. Other factors include the integrity of the ...

Long-term cannabis use in any form has been linked to a greater risk of heart disease. In a new study, researchers at UC San Francisco determined that eating edible cannabis, such as gummies, has the ...