Senator Elizabeth Warren Asks The CDC To Research Marijuana To Alleviate The Opioid Epidemic

American political leaders around the country are searching for a policy response to the widespread abuse of opioid painkillers.

But progressives don’t want to replicate the mistakes of the war-on-drugs’ punitive approaches to drug use and addiction.

Now, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is using her influence and popularity to push for a solution that both underscores and addresses the injustices of the war on drugs over the past several decades.

Senator Warren is urging the Center for Disease Control to consider the role that legal medical cannabis could play in addressing the crisis of painkiller overdoses and addiction in the United States.

Warren is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to research how medical and recreational marijuana might help alleviate the opioid epidemic.

In a letter sent Monday to CDC head Dr. Thomas Friedan, Warren pushed for the agency to finalize its guidance to physicians on the dos and don’ts of prescribing...

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