As a growing number of U.S. states legalize marijuana for medical and recreational use, more patients who use the drug are showing up in operating rooms across the country. To get a clearer picture of how cannabis impacts the effectiveness of different types of anesthesia, researchers studied 250 patients
- People who regularly use cannabis may need more than twice the usual dose of anesthesia for surgery, a U.S. study suggests.
"Cannabis users cannot assume that their use will have no effects on their medical care," said lead study author Dr. Mark Twardowski of Western Medical Associates in Grand Junction, Colorado. One limitation of the study is the possibility that some cannabis users might not have disclosed this, leaving this information out of the medical records researchers used for their analysis. Even though recreational marijuana is legal where the study was done, stigma may have stopped some people from reporting it, researchers note in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
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