Legal Cannabis May Not Lower Opioid Overdose Deaths After All

**C C** · Jun 11, 2019 09:23 PM

https://gizmodo.com/legal-cannabis-may-n...1835415788

INTRO: A new study seems to deal a serious blow to one of the pro-cannabis movement’s talking points: the idea that the more medical cannabis is legalized, the fewer people will die from opioid overdoses. The findings suggest that there’s no real connection between the rate of opioid overdose deaths and a state’s medical cannabis laws, at least not anymore. (MORE)

**Syne** · (This post was last modified: Jun 11, 2019 11:44 PM by Syne.)

Yeah, I've never known one to affect the use of the other, in people who use both.

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