{"id":549870,"date":"2026-03-19T05:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/549870\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:16:10","slug":"no-evidence-to-support-prescribing-medicinal-cannabis-for-anxiety-lancet-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/549870\/","title":{"rendered":"No evidence to support prescribing medicinal cannabis for anxiety, Lancet study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark meta-analysis has failed to show that medicinal cannabis helps with anxiety, the second-most common indication for cannabis in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Australian and UK researchers have reviewed 54 studies published between 1980 and 2025 on the efficacy of cannabinoids for mental health conditions, with 2477 total participants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their results, published in\u00a0The Lancet Psychiatry\u00a0this week, showed no benefit for most conditions, including anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, OCD, anorexia nervosa and opioid, tobacco, and cocaine use disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Of six studies on anxiety, four studies with 293 participants were used for the meta-analysis, which showed no significant effect on anxiety symptoms at the longest follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A landmark meta-analysis has failed to show that medicinal cannabis helps with anxiety, the second-most common indication for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,10697,137,124364,514,44],"class_list":["post-549870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cannabis","tag-health","tag-medicinal-cannabis","tag-mental-health","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}