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United States How to live longer: CBD could increase lifespan by reducing risk of dementia, says study
29 Apr 2022
Daily Express
PERCEPTIONS of cannabis are changing and slowly the stigma is being lifted from a plant that faced strong opposition during the 20th Century. Now scientists can conduct research into cannabis, they are discovering the benefits of the more than 100 cannabi
As well as helping patients, medicinal cannabis could also provide assistance to the NHS by saving it money according to CEO Pierre van Weperen.
The savings in question would come from chronic pain treatment.
Van Weperen explains: “These patients on average cost the NHS £15,000 per year each and that includes medication, consultation, doctor visits, pain clinics, A&E submissions etc.
“If you were to review those patients and see what you could do with reducing those opioids and replacing that with cannabis, we could probably take care of a lot of those patients for half the money.”
