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Chronic pain: Cannabinoids help??

  The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) just published a living systematic review on cannabis and other cannabinoid treatments for chronic pain (see   https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/products/plant-based-chronic-pain-treatment/living-review#toc_js_2   for the webpage and   https://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/plant-based-chronic-pain-review-q2.pdf   for the document.). This is considered a “living” systematic review since it will be updated regularly with new published literature. So, I am including the 1 st   link which gets to the general webpage and has links to all of the recent (and future) analyses, and the 2 nd   link is to the most current PDF (February 2021 update). A 3 rd   update/progress report is scheduled for late May 2021   This review adds 6 additional RCTs to the prior report of 14 RCTs of cannabis-related products and 3 observational studies, for a total of 23 studies including bo...