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This month the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER,) an non-partisan think tank, published a working paper showing that states who allow patients to access medicinal marijuana through dispensaries have fewer rates of opioid addiction and overdose deaths.
The impact was measured by researchers who studied admissions for opioid pain reliever addiction and opioid overdose death. The research was done by the RAND Corporation and the University of California, Irvine.
“If marijuana is used as a substitute for powerful and addictive pain relievers in medical marijuana states,”
says NBER, “a potential overlooked positive impact of medical marijuana laws may be a reduction in harms associated with opioid pain relievers, a far more addictive and potentially deadly substance.”
The findings correspond with data published in 2014 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In 2014 JAMA stated, “Medical cannabis laws are associated with significantly lower state-level opioid overdose mortality...
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