The impact of cannabis access laws on opioid prescribing
> Analyzing a dataset of over 1.5 billion individual opioid prescriptions between 2011 and 2018, which were aggregated to the individual provider-year level, we find that recreational and medical cannabis access laws reduce the number of morphine milligram equivalents prescribed each year by 11.8 and 4.2 percent, respectively.<p>As a former marijuana user this seems obvious to me. I don’t understand why federal legalization has been so difficult. There are many benefits despite the potential of unknown risk.<p>Maybe my beliefs are a little out there. I wish for all drugs to be decriminalized. Portugal’s model seems to be working quite well.<p><a href="https://time.com/longform/portugal-drug-use-decriminalization/" rel="nofollow">https://time.com/longform/portugal-drug-use-decriminalizatio...</a>