El cannabis podría ayudar a dejar otras sustancias según este estudio
303017" title="" target="_blank">this study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy and we found it very interesting. The study specifically talks about how alcoholic people participated in a survey of how their alcohol consumption changed before and after receiving authorizations to use medical cannabis from their doctors.
The results are clear and very promising, 44% of respondents reported that they had drunk less frequently on a monthly basis, 34% on a weekly basis, and 8% responded that they stopped drinking completely in the 30 days before the end of the session. poll.
The study also showed that patients who explicitly requested medical cannabis to reduce alcohol consumption showed the greatest reductions in consumption.
What produced some surprise was that many patients who, in addition to alcohol, also consumed other substances, both legal and illicit, had also noticed a reduction in the need to consume them.
What can we deduce from this? Although we do not have to forget that cannabis also produces addiction, to a degree and with a much lower withdrawal syndrome, it is possible that over time we discover that cannabis is not a gateway drug, as we have been listening for so many years, but rather a starting drug.
If it makes it possible to reduce the need to ingest alcohol, the drug that directly or by illness causes about 10% of deaths in the world, the risk of generating an addiction to cannabis is comparatively more reasonable. Let"s not forget that there is not one direct death recorded in the world from cannabis abuse or from being addicted to it while the alcohol withdrawal syndrome, delirium tremens, can kill the addicted person.
It is a very interesting topic that we will be very aware of to continue informing you.
