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Can medical marijuana be a fix for the prescription-drug epidemic?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wants federal health officials to find out.
Warren has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate how pot is or isn't working to reduce reliance on highly addictive prescription pills and to research "the impact of the legalization of medical and legal marijuana on opioid overdose deaths."
There's a catch to her request: marijuana remains a schedule 1 controlled substance, which places big barriers on researchers – even though 23 states have legalized marijuana for medicinal use.
Pain-pill addiction is rising alarmingly – and with it, addictions to heroin, which works on the brain in the same way. Meantime, a 2014 study showed that states that legalized medical marijuana appear to have lower overdose-death rates, both from prescription pain killers and illicit drugs like heroin. The reason wasn't clear, said the study published by the JAMA Network – but the intriguing linkage surely should be explored.
As we have said before, Florida is moving far too slowly in delivering medical marijuana for the people of this state. The voters, however, seem determined to take matters into their own hands and vote for a medical marijuana amendment on the November ballot.
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Full Article: Medical Marijuana: An Answer To Opioid Addiction?
Author: Howard Goodman
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Website: PalmBeachPost
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wants federal health officials to find out.
Warren has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate how pot is or isn't working to reduce reliance on highly addictive prescription pills and to research "the impact of the legalization of medical and legal marijuana on opioid overdose deaths."
There's a catch to her request: marijuana remains a schedule 1 controlled substance, which places big barriers on researchers – even though 23 states have legalized marijuana for medicinal use.
Pain-pill addiction is rising alarmingly – and with it, addictions to heroin, which works on the brain in the same way. Meantime, a 2014 study showed that states that legalized medical marijuana appear to have lower overdose-death rates, both from prescription pain killers and illicit drugs like heroin. The reason wasn't clear, said the study published by the JAMA Network – but the intriguing linkage surely should be explored.
As we have said before, Florida is moving far too slowly in delivering medical marijuana for the people of this state. The voters, however, seem determined to take matters into their own hands and vote for a medical marijuana amendment on the November ballot.
News Moderator: Robert Celt 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Medical Marijuana: An Answer To Opioid Addiction?
Author: Howard Goodman
Photo Credit: None found
Website: PalmBeachPost