“Because opioid mortality is such a tremendously significant health crisis now, we have to do something and figure out what’s going on,” Hayes said. The efforts U.S. states currently make to combat these deaths, such as prescription monitoring programs, have been relatively ineffectual, she said. “Everything we’re doing is having no effect, except for in the states that have implemented medical marijuana laws,” Hayes said. #ControlDrugs
Opioid deaths down dramatically where marijuana is legal
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In places where pot is legal, overdose deaths from opioids such as morphine, oxycodone and heroin decreased by an average of 20 per cent after one year
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