3.3.2. Pain Interference

Recovery of daily functioning and restoring "their old self" is one of the most recurrent features that chronic, self-medicating, patients associate to their therapeutic use of cannabis. Participants reported a 18.4% reduction in pain interference with their daily activities associated with the treatment from an average baseline value of 6.97 to a mean value of 5.69 at the 3-month follow up (Figure 4B, N = 174; T = 7.19; *p* < 0.001).

#### 3.3.3. Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Participants who completed the GAD-7 questionnaire reported a 50.7% reduction in anxiety symptoms (Figure 4C, N = 107; T = 12.9; *p* < 0.001) from an average baseline value of 12.7 to a mean value of 6.28 at the 3-month follow up.
