Angela Bryan had been studying cancer prevention for years and had just started studying cannabis use among cancer patients when, in 2017, her personal and professional lives collided in a way she’d never imagined: She was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Hesitant to take opioids for post-surgical pain, she asked her doctors what they thought about her using the herb medicinally.
“They were so supportive of what I wanted to do, but they had no idea what to tell me,” said Bryan, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at CU Boulder. “There was just no data.”
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