Study Shows Cannabis Reduces Headache and Migraine Pain by Nearly 50%
Study Shows Cannabis Reduces Headache and Migraine Pain by Nearly 50% TOPICS: Cannabis Pain Management Was NOVEMBER 25, 2019 Inhaled cannabis reduces self-reported headache severity by 47.3% and migraine severity by 49.6%, according to a recent study led by Carrie Cuttler, a Washington State University assistant professor of psychology. The study, published online on November 9, 2019, in the Journal of Pain , is the first to use big data from headache and migraine patients using cannabis in real time. Previous studies have asked patients to recall the effect of cannabis use in the past. There has been one clinical trial indicating that cannabis was better than ibuprofen in alleviating headache, but it used nabilone, a synthetic cannabinoid drug. “We were motivated to do this study because a substantial number of people say they use cannabis for headache and migraine, but surprisingly few studies had addressed the topic,” said Cuttler, the l...