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So, does this mean medical schools are finally catching on to marijuana as medicine?
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US medical schools and medical organizations have traditionally avoided medical marijuana due to the plant’s 80-year outlaw status. But a medical university in Pennsylvania just defied tradition by partnering with a state-licensed pot company to investigate cannabis’s healing properties.
On Monday, the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) announced that it was teaming up with Organic Remedies, a state-licensed medical marijuana dispensary, to study cannabis’s effects on controlling chronic pain while weaning patients off of addictive opioid painkillers.
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