In the article, he quotes the findings of Marcus Bachhuber, an assistant professor of medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center, where “the study revealed an intriguing trend: between 1999 and 2010, states that permitted medical marijuana had an average of almost 25 percent fewer opioid overdose deaths each year than states where cannabis remained illegal.” While he also explicitly states that although Bachhuber could not prove a direct link between cannabis and opioid deaths, the findings “opened the eyes of many researchers to a possible relation between marijuana and painkiller use.” In a dark time where opioid deaths are skyrocketing out of control, alternatives like these provide a shining beam of
In the article, he quotes the findings of Marcus Bachhuber, an assistant professor of medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center, where “the study revealed an intriguing trend: between 1999 and 2010, states that permitted medical marijuana had an average of almost 25 percent fewer opioid overdose deaths each year than states where cannabis remained illegal.” While he also explicitly states that although Bachhuber could not prove a direct link between cannabis and opioid deaths, the findings “opened the eyes of many researchers to a possible relation between marijuana and painkiller use.” In a dark time where opioid deaths are skyrocketing out of control, alternatives like these provide a shining beam of