Research Wars: A Patient Advocate’s Guide to Finding Meaning Beyond the Headlines

One cannabis study can generate dramatically different headlines depending on who is telling the story. Research findings are routinely filtered through press releases, news coverage, social media, political arguments, industry claims, and advocacy campaigns—often leaving patients and the public to figure out what the science actually says.

As part of Patient Advocacy in Action: Tools for Cannabis Safety, ASA will provide a practical roadmap for evaluating cannabis research. Participants will learn to assess study populations, sample size, product type, dose, method of administration, funding, study design, and other details that can change a finding's meaning, while learning to distinguish correlation from causation and legitimate concerns from conclusions that go beyond the evidence.

Register to go beyond the headline and learn how to ask better questions about cannabis research.