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E151 - Daily Impact of Medical Cannabis in Older Adults with Madison Maynard

E151 - Daily Impact of Medical Cannabis in Older Adults with Madison Maynard

Update: 2025-07-16
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In Canada, older adults represent a fast-growing demographic of cannabis users. As part of her graduate program, PhD student Madison Maynard did a national enquiry, within the USA, on how cannabis modulates the chronic pain, mental health symptoms, and sleep concerns of people between the ages of 55 and 74 years old. Although the evidence leaves questions of efficacy unanswered, the goals of the study were to examine the hypothesis that medical cannabis use will, at the daily level, predict lower pain, depression, anxiety, and improved sleep. In this episode, Kirk and Trevor discuss how her findings.


Madison Maynard - Abstract


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E151 - Daily Impact of Medical Cannabis in Older Adults with Madison Maynard

E151 - Daily Impact of Medical Cannabis in Older Adults with Madison Maynard

Trevor Shewfelt and Kirk Nyquist