{"id":1878,"date":"2018-10-22T16:39:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T05:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/snake-oil-cannabis\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:00:35","slug":"snake-oil-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/snake-oil-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake Oil Cannabis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018claims\u2019 on cannabis often reach legendary status, particularly as the pro-drug lobby hijack the market place communications and create \u2018feeding frenzy\u2019 headlines!<\/p>\n<p>We have always said that&nbsp;a 140 character Tweet is mightier than 10,000 hard evidence-based research journals, in our current information rich, but knowledge poor social media culture!<\/p>\n<p>This webpage&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/informationisbeautiful.net\/visualizations\/snake-oil-cannabis-the-scientific-evidence-for-medical-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snake Oil Cannabis?&nbsp;Scientific evidence for the medical benefits&nbsp;Scientific evidence for the medical benefits<\/a>, is at least one attempt to get some balance away from propaganda and hype of the \u2018info-tainment\u2019 that is passing as research news, which only continues to aid and abet the manufactured consensus around this plant!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We want to make perfectly clear that for the most part this info-graph is in concert with the current scientific evidence to date. However, at least one piece of data on the chart we know should be recategorized out of the \u2018promising\u2019&nbsp;category to, at best, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.lww.com\/pain\/pages\/articleviewer.aspx?year=2018&amp;issue=10000&amp;article=00006&amp;type=Fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INCONCLUSIVE\u2019<\/a>. The vast majority of the \u2018data\u2019 around cannabis impact on pain is at best anecdotal, and evidence from placebo trials are almost as effective on \u2018pain\u2019 as some cannabis formulations!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is also very important to remember, if the product you are using is not Fully vetted, tested and trialled to FDA (Food &amp; Drug Administration) and\/or TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) and\/or MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) standards and registered as a&nbsp;pharmaceutical, it is&nbsp;NOT&nbsp;medicine, it is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/the-cannabis-paradox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snake<\/a>&nbsp;Oil!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018claims\u2019 on cannabis often reach legendary status, particularly as the pro-drug lobby hijack the market place communications and create \u2018feeding frenzy\u2019 headlines! We have always said that&nbsp;a 140 character Tweet is mightier than 10,000 hard evidence-based research journals, in our current information rich, but knowledge poor social media culture! This webpage&nbsp;Snake Oil Cannabis?&nbsp;Scientific evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-as-medicine","tag-cannabis-as-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}