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On Apr 16, 2019
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The Impact of Cannabis Access Laws on Opioid Prescribing

When healthcare providers first recognized pain as a fifth vital sign and treated it more aggressively, the number of opioid prescriptions quadrupled in the first 15 years of the new ...

On Apr 16, 2019
@NCIAorg shared
The Impact of Cannabis Access Laws on Opioid Prescribing https://t.co/WOA2VYPpQy via @CatoInstitute #DescheduleNow #WeAreTheCannabisIndustry
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The Impact of Cannabis Access Laws on Opioid Prescribing

When healthcare providers first recognized pain as a fifth vital sign and treated it more aggressively, the number of opioid prescriptions quadrupled in the first 15 years of the new ...

Legal Medical Marijuana Associated With Lower Opioid Use Rates, Another Study Finds

Legal access to medical marijuana is associated with lower rates of moderate and high-risk opioid use, according to a recent study—the latest in a string of research to come to the same ...

Ohio Hoping New Medical Marijuana Law Will Ease Its Opioid Crisis

Cannabis dispensaries opened for business this month in Ohio amid a continuing debate over medical marijuana's benefits.

States Move to Substitute Opioids With Medical Marijuana to Quell Epidemic

This Medical News & Perspectives article discusses recently enacted state laws that allow prescribed opioids to be substituted with medical marijuana.

Medical Marijuana

As politicians continue to argue over how best to address the current opioid epidemic, medical marijuana is quietly making a case for itself.

Amid opioid crisis, researchers aim to put medical marijuana to the test

A cannabis initiative team at UCLA plans to conduct a high-quality clinical study of the painkilling properties of pot — and perhaps stem the opioid epidemic.

Pot-smoking moms crusade for decriminalization

Women who support Moms for Marijuana talk about why they back using cannabis and resent any implication they’re not good moms.