Medical marijuana isn't going to solve the opioid overdose crisis

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Medical marijuana isn't going to solve the opioid overdose crisis
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Some thought people with opioid addiction would turn to medical marijuana instead. It seems they were wrong.

"It would be wonderful if it worked, but it doesn't seem like it does," said the new study's lead author, Chelsea Shover, apostdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University.in the U.S. of an opioid overdose in 2017, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's more than 130 people a day.," Shover said of the 2014 study."But does that really hold up over time? In short, what we found was no.

So Shover and her colleagues replicated the original study, but with expanded data to look at states that legalized medical marijuana through 2017. While they did confirm the preliminary 2014 finding, the results changed as the years went by and additional states passed medical cannabis laws. "These are correlations based on a lot of things that are happening in these individual states," Cooper said.

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