The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) is actively seeking participants for five ongoing clinical trials focused on marijuana’s medical applications.
These studies are part of UCSD’s continuing research into how marijuana can be used to help treat a variety of medical ailments.
The first trial looks into how marijuana relieves pain, often called a “silent epidemic” that impacts over 100 million Americans and costs society over $500 billion annually. This research seeks to map the brain’s response to vaporized marijuana, aiming to develop more targeted pain treatments.
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