Defining medical cannabis with Myfanwy Graham

In this episode, Dr Elle Wadsworth talks to Dr Myfanwy Graham, a Postgraduate Scholar at Monash University funded by the Australian Government's National Health and Medical Research Council. The interview covers Myfanwy’s data insight paper examining differences in the measurement of medical cannabis use.

• Why definitions and contexts matter with regards to medical cannabis use [01:05]
• Four measures of medical cannabis use that Myfanwy explored in the study [02:05]
• The medical cannabis policy contexts of the US, Australia, and Canada [03:30]
• The importance of using standardised questions across different countries [05:18]
• The main findings of the data insight [05:48]
• Interpretations of medical cannabis use [07:49]
• The implications of the findings for policy and practice [08:23]
• Myfanwy’s preferred measure of medical cannabis use [09:30]
• Self perceptions of being a medical cannabis consumer [10:34]
• The take-home messages of the study [11:56]

About Elle Wadsworth: Elle is an academic fellow with the Society for the Study of Addiction. She is based at the University of Bath with the Addiction and Mental Health Group and her research interests include drug policy, cannabis legalisation, and public health.

About Myfanwy Graham: Myfanwy is a Postgraduate Scholar funded by the Australian Government's National Health and Medical Research Council and a Monash Research Excellence Scholar at the Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University. Her research examines the intersection between drug policy and health outcomes with psychoactive medicines (e.g. medical cannabis, psychedelics). She is also a current Fellow at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California and is a Fulbright Scholar Alumna in public health policy. Myfanwy has completed consultancy work for the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, World Health Organization, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is also a registered pharmacist.

Authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Original article: Understanding medical cannabis use internationally: Why definitions and context matter https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70117

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