Cannabis could reduce fentanyl use, reduce overdose risk

And? Dependence has symptoms that feel like withdrawal. Because your mind is so DEPENDENT on it. They strong feelings but it isn't addiction.

prevalence of CANNABIS WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME as 47% among “individuals with regular or DEPENDENT use of cannabinoids.

Unfortunately, the study in JAMA doesn’t seem particularly generalizable to actual cannabis users. This study is a meta-analysis — a study which includes many studies that are deemed similar enough to lump together, in order to increase the numerical power of the study and, ideally, the strength of the conclusions. The authors included studies that go all the way back to the mid-1990s

So your own article never uses the word addiction. And says they have withdrawal symptoms. Not ever saying they have gone through withdrawal. Also it says THE sited study in JAMA just threw together any study that came to similar conclusions

order to increase the numerical power of the study and, ideally, the strength of the conclusions.

This article definitely proves something. What it proves I have no idea but something. Generally it agrees with what I said

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