Medical Marijuana: The Australian Experience.

David J Castle, Nigel Strauss, Amanda Norman, Yvonne Bonomo

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Article in Missouri medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

Medicinal cannabis: is current use clinically justified?Internal medicine journal · 2025
Review
Impacts of medicinal cannabis on an early psychosis service.Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2024
Article
Cannabinoids for the treatment of cannabis use disorder: New avenues for reaching and helping youth?Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022
Review
Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022
Article
From growers to patients: Multi-stakeholder views on the use of, and access to medicinal cannabis in Australia.PloS one · 2022
Article
Exploring the use of cannabis as a substitute for prescription drugs in a convenience sample.Harm reduction journal · 2021
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David J CastleDavid J. Castle, MD, FRANZCP, Professor of Psychiatry, St. Vincent's Hospital and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Nigel Strauss, FRANZCP, Medical Director, Millswyn Clinic, South Yarra, Australia. Amanda Norman, BA, Department of Addiction Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Yvonne Bonomo, MD, PhD, Department of Addiction Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Nigel StraussDavid J. Castle, MD, FRANZCP, Professor of Psychiatry, St. Vincent's Hospital and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Nigel Strauss, FRANZCP, Medical Director, Millswyn Clinic, South Yarra, Australia. Amanda Norman, BA, Department of Addiction Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Yvonne Bonomo, MD, PhD, Department of Addiction Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Amanda NormanDavid J. Castle, MD, FRANZCP, Professor of Psychiatry, St. Vincent's Hospital and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Nigel Strauss, FRANZCP, Medical Director, Millswyn Clinic, South Yarra, Australia. Amanda Norman, BA, Department of Addiction Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Yvonne Bonomo, MD, PhD, Department of Addiction Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Yvonne BonomoDavid J. Castle, MD, FRANZCP, Professor of Psychiatry, St. Vincent's Hospital and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Nigel Strauss, FRANZCP, Medical Director, Millswyn Clinic, South Yarra, Australia. Amanda Norman, BA, Department of Addiction Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. Yvonne Bonomo, MD, PhD, Department of Addiction Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AustraliaHumansLegislation, DrugMarijuana AbuseMedical MarijuanaMedical Marijuana

Identifiers

PMID31527965

PMCPMC6699817

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