{"id":86529,"date":"2026-03-17T08:25:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86529"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:38:31","slug":"clinics-handing-out-medicinal-cannabis-for-anxiety-and-depression-despite-no-evidence-it-works-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/17\/clinics-handing-out-medicinal-cannabis-for-anxiety-and-depression-despite-no-evidence-it-works-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinics handing out medicinal cannabis for anxiety and depression despite &#8216;no evidence&#8217; it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1YMs5O.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Experts have warned that medicinal cannabis, prescribed privately to thousands of Britons for conditions such as anxiety and depression, may not actually work\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Experts have warned that medicinal cannabis, prescribed to thousands of Britons for anxiety and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/depression\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">depression<\/a>, may not actually work.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/clinics-handing-out-medicinal-cannabis-for-anxiety-and-depression-despite-no-evidence-it-works\/ar-AA1YM2X1?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69b90580e2664a23992f39c014a86238&amp;ei=112\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Experts have warned that medicinal cannabis, prescribed to thousands of Britons for anxiety and\u00a0depression, may not actually work.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/medicinal-cannabis.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86530,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86529\/revisions\/86530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}