Our elected officials and health care providers may hope to curb the opioid epidemic through traditional addiction recovery programs and criminalization, but it’s time for them to consider the potential that medical cannabis has to offer in this effort.
All year, researchers from all over the country have been publishing concrete evidence proving that the legalization of medical marijuana leads to happier, healthier patients. Another study, released this week, has found that patients are replacing their prescription drugs with medical marijuana.
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, the study concluded that chronic pain sufferers who were legally able to use medical cannabis eventually ended up using fewer opioids and other dangerous prescription drugs.