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===Cannabis=== {{main|Medical cannabis}} ''Medical cannabis'', or ''medical marijuana'', refers to [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] or its [[cannabinoids]] used to treat disease or improve symptoms.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Murnion B | title = Medicinal cannabis | journal = Australian Prescriber | volume = 38 | issue = 6 | pages = 212β5 | date = December 2015 | pmid = 26843715 | pmc = 4674028 | doi = 10.18773/austprescr.2015.072 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=What is medical marijuana?|url=https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana-medicine|website=National Institute of Drug Abuse|access-date=19 April 2016|date=July 2015|quote=The term medical marijuana refers to using the whole unprocessed marijuana plant or its basic extracts to treat a disease or symptom.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417154854/https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana-medicine|archive-date=17 April 2016}}</ref> There is evidence suggesting that cannabis can be used to treat [[chronic pain]] and [[muscle spasms]], with some trials indicating improved relief of neuropathic pain over opioids.<ref name="Borgelt2013">{{cite journal | vauthors = Borgelt LM, Franson KL, Nussbaum AM, Wang GS | s2cid = 8503107 | title = The pharmacologic and clinical effects of medical cannabis | journal = Pharmacotherapy | volume = 33 | issue = 2 | pages = 195β209 | date = February 2013 | pmid = 23386598 | doi = 10.1002/phar.1187 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name="JAMA2015">{{cite journal | vauthors = Whiting PF, Wolff RF, Deshpande S, Di Nisio M, Duffy S, Hernandez AV, Keurentjes JC, Lang S, Misso K, Ryder S, Schmidlkofer S, Westwood M, Kleijnen J | display-authors = 6 | title = Cannabinoids for Medical Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | journal = JAMA | volume = 313 | issue = 24 | pages = 2456β73 | date = 23 June 2015 | pmid = 26103030 | doi = 10.1001/jama.2015.6358 | url = http://jama.jamanetwork.com/data/journals/jama/934167/joi150059.pdf | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170921232733/http://jama.jamanetwork.com/data/journals/jama/934167/joi150059.pdf | archive-date = 21 September 2017 | hdl = 10757/558499 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jensen B, Chen J, Furnish T, Wallace M | title = Medical Marijuana and Chronic Pain: a Review of Basic Science and Clinical Evidence | journal = Current Pain and Headache Reports | volume = 19 | issue = 10 | pages = 50 | date = October 2015 | pmid = 26325482 | doi = 10.1007/s11916-015-0524-x | s2cid = 9110606 }}</ref>
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