Senator Warren Was Right About Marijuana and Pain
On February 8, 2016, Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote a well publicized letter to Dr. Thomas Friedan, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In her letter she expressed her concern about the current epidemic of deaths by overdoses of opiate pain medications. Among her recommendations was taking steps to broaden our understanding of how marijuana might both help relieve pain as well as reduce the number of deaths by opioid overdose. She was quite correct in her effort.
As Senator Warren noted in her letter, there had been a 65% increase in deaths by overdose of opiates between 2012 and 2014 in her home state of Massachusetts. Those data are consistent with the epidemic of deaths by overdose that are occurring across our country. Indeed, the Centers for Disease Control has reported that since 2000, the rate of deaths from drug overdoses involving opioids has increased 200%....
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