“Consistent results from medical marijuana do not exist,” said Sami Spiezio, founder and CEO of Canna GroupConsulting LLC in Columbus, Ohio.
“Educating medical patients is a challenge faced by the medical cannabis industry in large part due to gaps in our understanding of the health effects of cannabis,” said Matthew Lowe, PhD, the research director at Realm of Caring, a Colorado non-profit that focuses on cannabinoid therapy access and research. Completing that necessary research is a monumental undertaking complicated partly by the bureaucracy the industry faces at organizational, state, and federal levels, he said.
According to , the medical cannabis industry in the United States is exploding.