Dr. Perry Solomon: Cannabis Education for the Mainstream Medical Industry

"The first study that we did, essentially, looking at the time at 17,000 patients, was in January of 2016, where we just did a general survey of broadly what patients use cannabis for, their age, their demographics, male/female, how they use it, and the types of education, age brackets, et cetera. We found very interesting facts in terms of pain being the number one issue, insomnia, depression, anxiety being the top tiers of what people use cannabis for.

The next study that we did, again using the patient base that we had, was looking at pain and opioids and cannabis, and we did that with the University of California at Berkeley and we just published that in “Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research” as an official IRB … Institutional Review Board … study through Berkeley, that we asked people, well, what were they able to do with opioids versus cannabis. Not surprisingly, except that, for the vast number of people that reacted to the survey, which was over 3,000 patients, 97 percent were able to get off and decrease their opioid use, and 95 percent of the 3,000 who answered were able to and preferred cannabis over opioids for use.

What we want to be able to do is to educate people and to poll our patients and the general public who are interested in cannabis to see how it is that they them and what medical conditions they’re able to use it for. The latest one that we did was with the Brightfield Group in Chicago, looking at specifically just CBD, and found that 80 percent of the people were able to get off their current medication and use CBD products, whether it be from hemp or from cannabis, to get off medication that they traditionally use, and able to use CBD, which is far safer than whatever it is they had been using previously. We want to try and use the data that we have to help patients understand, to help manufacturers understand what products they can manufacture that help people with specific medical conditions."
-- That's pretty impressive, isn't it?
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