Who are medical marijuana patients? population characteristics from nine California assessment clinics

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 128-135

  Reinarman, Craig ^a   Nunberg, Helen ^b   Lanthier, Fran ^a   Heddleston, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cannabis therapeutics; Insomnia; Medical marijuana; Pain

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CANNABINOID; CANNABIS; DIAMORPHINE; METHAMPHETAMINE;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANGER; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE SPASM; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN; PANIC; PRURITUS; SEIZURE; SELF REPORT; SIDE EFFECT; THERAPY EFFECT; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CANNABIS SMOKING; ETHNIC GROUP; HISPANIC; LEGAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CALIFORNIA; CANNABIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855536436     PISSN: 02791072     EISSN: 21599777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2011.587700     Document Type: Article

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