Consumer-Generated Discourse on Cannabis as a Medicine: Scoping Review of Techniques.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medicinal cannabis is increasingly being used for a variety of physical and mental health conditions. Social media and web-based health platforms provide valuable, real-time, and cost-effective surveillance resources for gleaning insights regarding individuals who use cannabis for medicinal purposes. This is particularly important considering that the evidence for the optimal use of medicinal cannabis is still emerging. Despite the web-based marketing of medicinal cannabis to consumers, currently, there is no robust regulatory framework to measure clinical health benefits or individual experiences of adverse events. In a previous study, we conducted a systematic scoping review of studies that contained themes of the medicinal use of cannabis and used data from social med

SUBMITTER: Khademi Habibabadi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9713623 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature