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Cannabinoids for Medical Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
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IMPORTANCE: Cannabis and cannabinoid drugs are widely used to treat disease or alleviate symptoms, but their efficacy for specific indications is not clear. OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review of the benefits and adverse events (AEs) of cannabinoids. DATA SOURCES: Twenty-eight databases from inception to April 2015. STUDY SELECTION: Randomized clinical trials of cannabinoids for the following indications: nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, appetite stimulation in HIV/AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity due to multiple sclerosis or paraplegia, depression, anxiety disorder, sleep disorder, psychosis, glaucoma, or Tourette syndrome. DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS: Study quality was assessed using the Cochrane risk of bias tool. All review stages were conducted independently by 2 reviewers. Where possible, data were pooled using random-effects meta-analysis. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Patient-relevant/disease-specific outcomes, activities of daily living, quality of life, global impression of change, and AEs. RESULTS: A total of 79 trials (6462 participants) were included; 4 were judged at low risk of bias. Most trials showed improvement in symptoms associated with cannabinoids but these associations did not reach statistical significance in all trials. Compared with placebo, cannabinoids were associated with a greater average number of patients showing a complete nausea and vomiting response (47% vs 20%; odds ratio [OR], 3.82 [95% CI, 1.55-9.42]; 3 trials), reduction in pain (37% vs 31%; OR, 1.41 [95% CI, 0.99-2.00]; 8 trials), a greater average reduction in numerical rating scale pain assessment (on a 0-10-point scale; weighted mean difference [WMD], -0.46 [95% CI, -0.80 to -0.11]; 6 trials), and average reduction in the Ashworth spasticity scale (WMD, -0.36 [95% CI, -0.69 to -0.05]; 7 trials). There was an increased risk of short-term AEs with cannabinoids, including serious AEs. Common AEs included dizziness, dry mouth, nausea, fatigue, somnolence, euphoria, vomiting, disorientation, drowsiness, confusion, loss of balance, and hallucination. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: There was moderate-quality evidence to support the use of cannabinoids for the treatment of chronic pain and spasticity. There was low-quality evidence suggesting that cannabinoids were associated with improvements in nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, weight gain in HIV infection, sleep disorders, and Tourette syndrome. Cannabinoids were associated with an increased risk of short-term AEs.
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“Mild to moderate central nervous or gastro-intestinal side effects are more common with cannabinoids than with placebo but severe side effects are rare [13].”
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“Medical uses of THC-based cannabinoids are associated with an increased risk of short-term adverse effects, but severe side effects are rare [13].”
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“Previous systematic reviews have been limited in their coverage of all relevant diseases, but most importantly primarily ignored the fact that medical cannabinoid products—a term that encompasses all plant-derived and synthetic derivatives—differ in their pharmacology [1–5].”
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“Evidence suggests that efforts to selfmanage depression with cannabis are increasing [71][72][73][74][75] (also Aaron L. Sarvet, MPH, written communication, January 2, 2018) despite lack of evidence that cannabinoids are effective for this purpose 76,77 ; prospectively, cannabis worsens the course of depressive disorders.78”
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“Several clinical studies have demonstrated the analgesic effects of cannabinoids in human disease states, including pain associated with diabetes, chemotherapy, multiple sclerosis, and fibromyalgia (Lynch and Ware, 2015;Whiting et al, 2015).”
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“A comprehensive meta-analysis shows that medicinal cannabis and cannabinoids effectively alleviate different types of pain, such as neuropathic, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis, cancer, diabetic neuropathy, refractory pain due to multiple sclerosis or other neurological conditions, rheumatoid arthritis, noncancer pain, central pain, musculoskeletal problems, and chemotherapy-induced pain (Whiting”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Whiting, P. F., Wolff, R. F., Deshpande, S., Di Nisio, M., Duffy, S., Hernandez, A. V., Keurentjes, J. C., Lang, S., Misso, K., Ryder, S., Schmidlkofer, S., Westwood, M., & Kleijnen, J.
- Affiliations
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
- Kleijnen Systematic Reviews (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Department of Medical, Oral, and Biotechnological Sciences, University “G. D'Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy5Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Medical School, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima, Peru7Health Outcomes and Clinical Epidemiology Section, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
- Radboud University Medical Center (NL)
- Institut für Epidemiologie und kongenitale Erkrankungen, Cepicon GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
- Maastricht University (NL)
- ORCID
- Venue
- JAMA
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2015-06-23
- Volume
- 313
- Issue
- 24
- Pages
- 2456
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- 0098-7484
- OpenAlex
- W2120227293
- Semantic Scholar
- 029bce497e0633eb2a7895cfd3b315f9c462dd5f
- Cited by
- 2,169
- References
- 137
- Citations by year
- 2026: 119 · 2025: 166 · 2024: 168 · 2023: 200 · 2022: 220 · 2021: 262 · 2020: 272 · 2019: 230 · 2018: 209 · 2017: 159 · 2016: 131 · 2015: 33
- FWCI
- 22.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- JAMA (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Pure Amsterdam UMC (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (publishedVersion)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Americanae (AECID Library) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology (medical) › Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Nausea and vomiting management
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Keywords
- cannabinoids, medical cannabis, nausea and vomiting, chemotherapy-induced nausea, chronic pain, spasticity, multiple sclerosis, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, psychosis, glaucoma, Tourette syndrome, adverse events, quality of life, activities of daily living, risk of bias, placebo comparison
- MeSH terms
- Anorexia, Mental Disorders, Cannabinoids, Tourette Syndrome, Glaucoma, Humans, Muscle Spasticity, Nausea, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Chronic Pain, Medical Marijuana
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