About the Authors

Timna Naftali

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

timnanaftali@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Lihi Bar-Lev Schleider

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research Department, Tikun-Olam – Cannbit Pharmaceuticals, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Clinical Research Center, Soroka Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel

Fabiana Scklerovsky Benjaminov

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Fred Meir Konikoff

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shelly Tartakover Matalon

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Yehuda Ringel

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

We declared the following potential competing interests:- Author Lihi Bar Lev Schlieder is an employee of Tikun Olam, A cannabis manufacturing company, The cannabis used in the study was supplied by Tikun Olam All other authors have no conflicts to declare. F.M.K. was supported, in part, by the Josefina Maus and Gabriela Cesarman Chair for Research in Liver Diseases, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.