{"id":20613,"date":"2017-10-27T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T17:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/university-to-study-medical-cannabis-as-opioid-alternative\/"},"modified":"2017-10-27T12:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T20:51:30","slug":"university-to-study-medical-cannabis-as-opioid-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/university-to-study-medical-cannabis-as-opioid-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"University to study medical cannabis as opioid alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>On the same day that President Donald Trump labeled opioid-related deaths a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/10\/26\/politics\/donald-trump-opioid-epidemic\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cnational health emergency,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0word spread that the University of Florida Health will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuft.org\/news\/2017\/10\/26\/uf-researchers-begin-study-on-marijuana-as-opioid-alternative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study the medical benefits<\/a> of cannabis as a possible alternative to the narcotic.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s doctors will also study MMJ\u2019s benefits for HIV patients.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year study is being funded by a $3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, according to Gainesville TV station WUFT.<\/p>\n<p>One reason for the study, said lead researcher Dr. Robert Cook, is to determine if medical cannabis can be a viable alternative for<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/university-florida-study-medical-cannabis-opioid-alternative\/\">University to study medical cannabis as opioid alternative<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/university-florida-study-medical-cannabis-opioid-alternative\/\" target=\"_blank\">University to study medical cannabis as opioid alternative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the same day that President Donald Trump labeled opioid-related deaths a \u201cnational health emergency,\u201d\u00a0word spread that the University of Florida Health will study the medical benefits of cannabis as a possible alternative to the narcotic. The school\u2019s doctors will also study MMJ\u2019s benefits for HIV patients. The five-year study<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/27\/university-to-study-medical-cannabis-as-opioid-alternative\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1058,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20614,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20613\/revisions\/20614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}