Friend or Foe: The Use of Cannabis as a Potential Analgesic in Postoperative Lumbar Spine Surgery

Andrei Tuluca, Jonathan Boyce, Gregory Schneider, Eric A. Williams

Cannabis is a plant-based product which has been documented in medicinal usage dating back nearly 5000 years ago in 400 AD. With time, cannabis would come to become the most grown, cultivated, trafficked, and abused illicit drug worldwide. As a result, cannabis became a schedule 1 substance having no accepted medical use. In 1996, however, cannabis emerged in the medicinal scene when California became the first st…