India, Oct. 15 -- A new review published in the medical journal Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews has found that there is not enough evidence to confirm whether medical cannabis can effectively treat insomnia.
The review was led by scientists from the Cochrane Associate Center at Universidad Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires in Argentina and the University of Manitoba in Canada.
The team analyzed nine clinical trials involving more than 500 patients, many of whom were treated for primary insomnia. In most trials, participants received either medical cannabis or a placebo, a treatment with no active drug. One study compared medical cannabis with the antidepressant amitriptyline.
At the end of the review, the researchers could not co...