Medical marijuana highly used for anxiety
Medical marijuana, available in Pennsylvania since 2018, is most often used to treat, anxiety, data shows. Associated Press File Photo
A recent report indicating anxiety disorders were a factor in more than half of the medical marijuana certifications in 2021 came as no surprise to professionals in the business in Butler County.
According to Spotlight PA, anxiety disorders were a factor in 60% of the more than 385,000 medical marijuana certifications allowed by doctors in 2021, which is the most recent full year of data.
Often, it was the sole qualifying condition. Over that same time period, nearly 40% of certifications — or more than 151,000 — listed anxiety disorders as the sole qualifying condition, ranking well ahead of others such as chronic pain and cancer, Spotlight PA reported.
