CANNAHEALTH Women's Health with Cannabis | Page 20

In conclusion, understanding the complex nature of pain is difficult. Chronic pain represents a significant health and societal concern. In the adult population chronic pain can lead to loss of productivity, earning potential, and decreased quality of life (3). Although pain can be motivating and managed with several modern wellness modalities, it should not exist as a permanent staple to the modern Western lifestyle.

Cannabinoid therapy may be considered in patients with poor functional capacity, pain-related social and occupational problems and in cases where other management strategies have failed. In the long-term these approaches will contribute to providing better diagnoses and more effective treatments to lessen the current challenges in pain medicine Especially in the reduction of anxiety and depressive symptoms, increase function and improve mood (4,5).

Furthermore. Call it what you must. But there is backed science and results demonstrating high safety and low adverse effect relief utilizing non-psychotropic, non-psychoactive cannabinoid therapy within several groups of mammals. Including humans (4,7). Accesses to cannabis treatment methods are difficult, as cannabis and cannabinoid derived substances are illegal in most regions of the world. Only time will unlock the potential of this fascinating pant based medicine.

-Amanda Bradder

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