Well, I think the good research remains to be done as far as the side-by-side efficacy of cannabis versus other anti-anxiety medications is concerned, but our reports from medical users and non-medical users indicate that cannabis does reduce their anxiety. It's one of the primary reasons that people use it. Amongst people with chronic and severe illness, they report high levels of using cannabis to deal with anxiety. We need to compare the side-effect profiles of cannabis to the other substances that are widely prescribed, the anti-anxiety medications, that also have more severe side effects in many ways than cannabis. We need a side-by-side trial of those two to say which is more effective, which has more palatable side effects, but the potential is certainly there, I believe.
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