States with Medical Marijuana have less Opioid Prescriptions

[therevverend]

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-marijuana-is-legal-opioid-prescriptions-fall/

Great article here. Covers a lot of stuff obvious to marijuana users, like how opiates mess with digestion among other side effects that cannabis doesn't have.
It mentions that the more access patients have to cannabis the less opiates are prescribed. The states that have active dispensaries issue far less opiate scripts then medical states that don't have active dispensaries.
This isn't in the article but personally, when I've been in major pain after surgery, to the point where I needed opiates. When I was smoking ganja I needed far less painkillers, weaker painkillers, and I was able to get off the pain pills much faster.
This kind of stuff is obvious. It's good to see it in a respectable science blog that a lot of academic types will read. I've seen several good cannabis articles in Scientific American.

 

[igrowone]

read through it today, the best part?
imagining the expression on jeff sessions face

 

[Bud Green]

Mrs. G needs morphine for the pain for a really shitty, somewhat rare, illness she has,
but thank goodness she also has all the cannabis she wants.. I make sure of that..

It has kept her from becoming totally dependent on the morphine...

By the way, J. Sessions can kiss my ass..

 

[aridbud]

Sessions is ignorant in understanding chronic pain as much as understanding cannabis is relief from pain and other many health maladies.

 

[Gry]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Sessions, an unapologetic and eager step and fetch for corporate interests.
There are 25% fewer deaths do to opiate overdose in states where cannabis is available.

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[aridbud]

Mrs. G needs morphine for the pain for a really shitty illness she has,
but thank goodness she also has all the cannabis she wants.. I make sure of that..

It has kept her from becoming totally dependent on the morphine...

By the way, J. Sessions can kiss my ass..

Glad you're able to provide needed relief, Bud.

 

[pop_rocks]

opiates are strong medicine and its nice to have other choices for pain management.
hopefully one day, doctors will be as willing to provide a more natural alternative to the strong pharmaceuticals they currently use

 

[Tudo]

I've reduced my intake of prescribed opioids by over 90% because of cannabis

 

[Stoner4Life]

Mrs. G needs morphine for the pain for a really shitty, somewhat rare, illness she has,
but thank goodness she also has all the cannabis she wants.. I make sure of that..

It has kept her from becoming totally dependent on the morphine...

By the way, J. Sessions can kiss my ass..

thank god my body rejects morphine, makes me puke at single doses, of course my doctor prescribed heavy doses of 2 types (hydromorphone & vicodin) of opiates.......

pill pushers, pluck 'em!!!


give your missus my best, I'm gonna find then post a good chick friendly pic for her in the 'Country' thread tomorrow.

 

[OldCoolSativa]

I've reduced my intake of prescribed opioids by over 90% because of cannabis

Ccngrats, man. I sincerely mean that.