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Pot users have more adverse effects: research
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Winnipeg Free Press
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July 26, 2008
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By Pamela Fayerman
VANCOUVER -- The use of medical marijuana to relieve pain and other disease symptoms can cause a huge range of adverse effects, say researchers with the University of B.C. and McGill University.
Researchers analyzed 31 studies from around the world conducted over the past 40 years and found that while nearly 97 per cent of adverse events were not serious or life-threatening, medicinal marijuana users still have an 86-per-cent increase in the rate of non-serious adverse effects, such as drowsiness and dizziness, compared to non-users.
The study published in today's Canadian Medical Association Journal found the risk of suffering serious, adverse effects requiring ...