Cannabis use for chronic non-cancer pain: results of a prospective survey
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Pain
- Vol. 102 (1), 211-216
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0304-3959(02)00400-1
Abstract
There has been a surge in interest in medicinal cannabis in Canada. We conducted a questionnaire survey to determine the current prevalence of medicinal cannabis use among patients with chronic non-cancer pain, to estimate the dose size and frequency of cannabis use, and to describe the mainThis publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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