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USA. States allow misleading claims that cannabis can treat opioid addiction

USA. States allow misleading claims that cannabis can treat opioid addiction

As Stanford postdoc Chelsea Shover, PhD, was scrolling through her Twitter feed, one image stopped her cold.

Someone from a physician organization, alarmed by claims made in a Pennsylvania cannabis dispensary's advertisement, had retweeted it. The ad was aimed at people taking Suboxone, a medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating opioid use disorder. (Stanford Medicine, USA, 15.07.2020)

USA. States allow misleading claims that cannabis can treat opioid addiction