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While legislators and health regulators across the country have considered using medical marijuana to address opioid addiction, states have frequently turned down the idea. From New Hampshire to New Mexico, several states that allow medical marijuana for issues like cancer and glaucoma have...

The bona fides of cannabis as a pain reliever are so well established that even the FDA has approved pharmaceutical CBD and THC for the treatment of chronic pain associated with AIDS and chemotherapy. In states with legal medical marijuana, doctors recommend weed for pain of every stripe and...

Members of the President Donald Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis will hold their first meeting today. The Commission is tasked with studying "ways to combat and treat the scourge of drug abuse, addiction, and the opioid crisis" – the latter of which was...

Colorado is making big money off marijuana sales, over $105 million in tax revenue for fiscal year 2016-17. That revenue is going into a "Marijuana Tax Cash Fund" that's being allocated a few different ways (as reported by Vice). Arguably the most meaningful, and exemplary for other states to...

Medical marijuana legalization is causing patients to ditch their prescription pills for pot, a trend researchers say could save Medicaid more than $1 billion if legalization is implemented federally. A recent study published in Health Affairs shows marijuana legalization is sparking a...

Sometimes, efforts that begin with the best intentions can just end up making things worse. The Centers for Disease Control and state and local regulators have been fighting the national epidemic of prescription opioid painkiller abuse by increasing regulation of prescription opioid drugs and...

This boggles my mind so I thought I'd look for some opinions here. I just read a local whitepaper that talks about an addiction treatment facility in Massachusetts that's weening patients off of opioids using medical marijuana with a 75% success rate!1 Rates for other addiction treatments aren't...

Davis County, Utah – For years, marijuana has been labeled a so-called "gateway" drug, blamed for leading drug users down the path toward harder, more destructive drug use. A review of studies in the journal Trends in Neuroscience, however, indicates that not only is cannabis unlikely to lead...

In 2014, more people died from drug overdoses than at any other time in U.S. history, with 60% of fatalities involving opioid drugs. Moreover, estimates point to between 26 and 36 million people abusing opioids worldwide, with roughly 2.1 million people in the U.S. suffering from substance use...

As West Virginia lawmakers, doctors, pharmacists and law enforcement officers have said time and time again, there is no silver bullet in solving the opioid epidemic. But in the state with the highest rate of overdose deaths in the nation, officials have often said they want to use every...

Atlanta - Could medical cannabis fix Georgia's opioid crisis? One University of Georgia professor thinks so. He shared data to support that at a Georgia House of Representatives work session in Atlanta on Wednesday for HB 65. That's the bill that would expand the current medical cannabis law...

Concord — Steve Boulter was one of the first to arrive at Representatives Hall on Wednesday for a hearing on expansion of New Hampshire's medical marijuana program. The 74-year-old resident of North Conway made the long drive to let lawmakers know that therapeutic cannabis helped him with...

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that there were fewer drivers killed in car crashes who tested positive for opioids in states with medical marijuana laws than before the laws went into effect. The study is one of the first to assess the link...

Proponents of medical marijuana and research into the drug's viability for opioid addiction treatment are concerned over what President-elect Donald Trump means for the future of the industry. Medical marijuana is legal in 28 states and Washington, D.C., where it is also legal for...

12/12/16 on Fox News on "The O'Reilly Factor" which I watch all the time. I really don't want to make this a political issue. Bill O'Reilly was lumping in marijuana with the opioid & heroin crisis, which is typical of the old world thinking. Especially when there is hundreds of thousands of...

The cannabis plant's medicinal value is virtually unmatched by any modern medicine — even scientific evidence has shown us that. And yet, for some reason, the DEA continues to ignore the mountains of evidence that medical marijuana can, and does, help millions of people across the United States...

The current issue of Tennessee Medicine published by the Tennessee Medical Association describes progress in the fight against the plague of drug overdose deaths in the state. Unfortunately, we are overlooking an important tool. The cost of Suboxone used to treat addicts and the high price of...

The current issue of Tennessee Medicine published by the Tennessee Medical Association describes progress in the fight against the plague of drug overdose deaths in the state. Unfortunately, we are overlooking an important tool. The cost of Suboxone used to treat addicts and the high price of...

New research conducted by Columbia University's Mailman School for Public Health suggests that the availability of medical marijuana may reduce the use of opioid drugs. The study concluded that fewer people were killed in car accidents who tested positive for opioids (even prescription opioids)...

New research conducted by Columbia University's Mailman School for Public Health suggests that the availability of medical marijuana may reduce the use of opioid drugs. The study concluded that fewer people were killed in car accidents who tested positive for opioids (even prescription opioids)...