A study coming out of the Rabin Medical Center in Israel found that people with lower back pain who don’t respond very well to opioids for pain relief have “large, sustained, and statistically robust improvements” if they inhale cannabis instead.
The study looked at 241 patients from 2020 to 2025 who were resistant to normal treatment for their chronic back pain.
The cannabis they inhaled both improved their pain in the long term, and brought on a “near-total displacement of opioids, NSAIDs, antidepressants and gabapentinoids.”
The cannabis used had a THC range from 4 to 22%, and a CBD range from 2 to 22%.
It’s a small study, but one that can certainly be added to the plethora of pain-related research into marijuana that has occurred over the years. The authors recommend that the study should be followed up with “randomized comparative trials of inhaled cannabis versus continued multimodal therapy” that would help bring this from the correlation realm into causation.
Read the original article at Marijuana Moment, and the study here.
