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Can Marijuana Help Bring an End to America's Opioid Crisis?

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 02/25/2016 - 08:45

America is in the midst of a drug crisis—and the War on Drugs may be making it worse.

There were 47,000 deaths in 2014 as a result of opioid overdoses (or some 128 overdoses per day), according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That figure isn't just more than any other year on record; it marks a 200 percent increase in opioid overdose deaths since 2000.

This is, as Vox points out, "more than the nearly 34,000 who died to car crashes, the almost 34,000 who died to gun violence, and the nearly 42,000 who died to HIV/AIDS during that epidemic's peak in 1995." And it's not just heroin or other illicit drugs driving this crisis: It's prescription drugs that are hollowing out entire pockets of the United States.

Over the weekend, some of America's top lawmakers decided to do something about...

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