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News Philly Is a Hub for Medical Marijuana Research The commonwealth is surprisingly forward-thinking when it comes to clinical uses for cannabis. By Janine White· 11/11/2026, 12:18 p.m. Pennsylvania is surprisingly forward-thinking when it comes to clinical uses for marijuana. Listen to the audio edition here:“What about cannabis?” That’s what physician Brooke Worster started hearing over a decade ago from patients looking for pain relief. “Pretty quickly,” she says, “I got tired of saying, ‘I don’t know.’” So Worster, who is enterprise director of supportive oncology at Jefferson Health, turned to science. Today, she conducts research at Jefferson’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College — one of 10 medical schools in Pennsylvania that have a state-certified medical marijuana academic clinical research center (ACRC).ACRC scientists are studying whether cannabis effectively treats everything from chronic pain to insomnia.

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