A new study suggests that pain relief from medical marijuana may be placebo.

Study: Medical Marijuana Pain Control Might Be Placebo

A new study suggests that one of medical marijuana's biggest benefits might not come from the actual drug. The journal Jama Network Open, published the study on Cannabis earlier this week, it found just believing in the treatment helped reduce pain. The new research analyzed 20 studies using cannabis For pain control over 1400 adults. Researchers say the patients reported large improvements in pain, whether they were given cannabis or if they just believed they had based on this and other findings. The association for the study of pain issued a statement against the use for marijuana for pain.