With marijuana legislation on ballots in a record number of states next month, a new study suggests doctors are less concerned with pot’s effect on their patients’ health than obesity, alcohol or depression.
Researchers at Yale University presented a group of 233 primary-care physicians with nine hypothetical patient behaviors, then made the doctors rank them from 1-to-10 in terms of how problematic they perceived each one to be.
Summarizing their findings in a journal article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week, the researchers ranked pot use as the least-worrisome among doctors polled.
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Researchers at Yale University presented a group of 233 primary-care physicians with nine hypothetical patient behaviors, then made the doctors rank them from 1-to-10 in terms of how problematic they perceived each one to be.
Summarizing their findings in a journal article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) this week, the researchers ranked pot use as the least-worrisome among doctors polled.
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