The scientific world has crossed yet another cannabis milestone. As of December 2025, the National Institutes of Health’s PubMed database now catalogs more than 53,000 peer-reviewed studies focused on cannabis and its various compounds — a body of work stretching all the way back to the mid-1800s.
The pace isn’t slowing. Researchers published over 4,000 cannabis-related papers in the past year alone, marking the fifth consecutive year of remarkably high output. A significant share of this expansion has occurred in the modern era: more than 37,000 of these studies were released since 2015, with over 70 percent of the entire research archive emerging in just the last decade. More than 90 percent of all cannabis literature has been published since the early 2000s.
Advocates and policymakers note that this surge in data changes the conversation. With tens of thousands of studies now available, the question is no longer what remains unknown but whether decision-makers are willing to rely on evidence rather than outdated assumptions.
In short, the age of speculation is giving way to a new era of scientific scrutiny — and cannabis research is leading the charge.
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53,000 and Counting: The Unstoppable Rise of Cannabis Research
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