Marijuana can effectively treat both pain and insomnia in people who want to avoid prescription and over the counter pain and sleep medications - including opioids finds a recent study. The study published in the 'Journal of Psychoactive Drugs' looked at 1000 people taking legalised marijuana in an American state found that among the 65 per cent of people taking cannabis for pain 80 per cent found it was very or extremely helpful. This led to 82 per cent of these people being able to reduce or stop taking over the counter pain medications and 88 per cent being able