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ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2018

It is premature to expand access to medicinal cannabis in hopes of solving the US opioid crisis.

Wayne Hall, Robert West, John Marsden, Keith Humphreys, Joanne Neale, Nancy Petry

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Article in Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Youth Cannabis use and Legalization in Canada - Reconsidering the Fears, Myths and Facts Three Years In.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2021
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  7. Cannabis use and cannabis use disorder.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2021
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  9. The costs and benefits of cannabis control policies
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  13. Cannabis legalization: Did we make a mistake? Update 2019Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2019
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  15. Association between medical cannabis laws and opioid overdose mortality has reversed over time.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Wayne HallCentre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1984-0096
Robert WestUniversity College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0291-5760
John MarsdenNational Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1307-2498
Keith HumphreysVeterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers, Palo Alto, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0694-5761
Joanne NealeNational Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1502-5983
Nancy PetryUniversity of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2462-1752

Funding

Cancer Research UK 22962Medical Research Council MR/K023195/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Medical MarijuanaAnalgesics, OpioidDrug and Narcotic ControlDrug OverdoseHumansOpioid-Related DisordersUnited StatesAnalgesics, OpioidMedical MarijuanaConfirmatory biasdrug policyecological studiesmedical cannabis lawsmedical marijuana state lawsopioid crisisopioid overdose mortality

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PMID29468760

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