Marijuana can reduce opiate use

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Marijuana can reduce opiate use

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Nanaimo-based researcher has found medicinal cannabis can reduce or prevent opioid use and can even offer addicts an exit strategy.

In an academic paper published this month in the Harm Reduction Journal, Philippe Lucas concluded that governments and health care providers should immediately implement “cannabis-based interventions” in the opioid overdose crisis that has gripped North America.
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It would be awesome if it could, but time will tell.
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big pharma will do what it can to not make this happen,
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MJ has so many benefits to mankind. Ignore or bereft. Either or.
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