Does this seem like a no brainer to anyone else?

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Quote:"Prescriptions for all opioids decreased by 3.742 million daily doses per year when medical cannabis dispensaries opened."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaint...irect=true

Correlation is not causation. That was around the time that hospitals cut back on the amount of opioids they were prescribing anyway to try to combat the epidemic , and people just switched to heroin. If those previous prescription users just switched to the black market, that stat is meaningless.

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So because I thought the prescription number was sort of irrelevant, I looked up overdose deaths and guess what? Every state that legalized marijuana has seen their overdose deaths go down after legalization while the rest of the country has seen them skyrocket!

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosma...soning.htm

So the study stands, although I think they asked the wrong question by not including the black market.

Toke up.