Highlights
- •Legalization of cannabis is spreading around the globe without having secured its safety.
- •Cannabis use has been charged with mental, cardiovascular and other health problems.
- •It constitutes a public health hazard with alarming preponderance in younger age groups.
- •Recommending marijuana use violates the Hippocratic aphorism of “Do Good or Do No Harm”.
- •The evidence-based medicine paradigm should be applied to the field of medical cannabis.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: January 24, 2019
Accepted:
January 20,
2019
Received in revised form:
January 10,
2019
Received:
December 2,
2018
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