Sleeplessness. Night sweats. Anxiety. Irritability. Aches and pains.
Would smoking a little pot help women deal with these common symptoms of menopause?
A good number of middle-aged women apparently think so, because they’ve been turning to marijuana to help handle the change of life, a new study reports.
“Midlife women within the menopause transition period of their life are using cannabis, and they’re using it for symptoms that tend to overlap with menopause,” said lead researcher Katherine Babyn, a graduate student at the University of Alberta in Canada.
There’s just one drawback — little to no research has proven that pot can effectively treat menopause-related symptoms, said Dr. Stephanie Faubion, medical director of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
“This hasn’t been studied formally in women going through menopause, and so we don’t know what the potential benefits or risks are,” Faubion said. “That’s the danger here, is we’re using a drug that has not been studied.”
For this study, Babyn and her colleagues surveyed nearly 1,500 middle-aged women in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Two-thirds of the women said they had used pot at some time, and one-third said they’d done so within the past month.
Of the current users, 75% reported that they’d been using pot for medical purposes, even though only 23% had it medically prescribed to them.
They used pot in a number of forms, including edibles (52%), oils (47%), smoked (41%) and vaped (26%).
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Sleeplessness. Night sweats. Anxiety. Irritability. Aches and pains.
Would smoking a little pot help women deal with these common symptoms of menopause?
A good number of middle-aged women apparently think so, because they’ve been turning to marijuana to help handle the change of life, a new study reports.
“Midlife women within the menopause transition period of their life are using cannabis, and they’re using it for symptoms that tend to overlap with menopause,” said lead researcher Katherine Babyn, a graduate student at the University of Alberta in Canada.
There’s just one drawback — little to no research has proven that pot can effectively treat menopause-related symptoms, said Dr. Stephanie Faubion, medical director of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS).
“This hasn’t been studied formally in women going through menopause, and so we don’t know what the potential benefits or risks are,” Faubion said. “That’s the danger here, is we’re using a drug that has not been studied.”
For this study, Babyn and her colleagues surveyed nearly 1,500 middle-aged women in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Two-thirds of the women said they had used pot at some time, and one-third said they’d done so within the past month.
Of the current users, 75% reported that they’d been using pot for medical purposes, even though only 23% had it medically prescribed to them.
They used pot in a number of forms, including edibles (52%), oils (47%), smoked (41%) and vaped (26%).
The products…
