Investigators concluded, “Ongoing efforts to reduce regulatory barriers and legal and criminal consequences of cannabis … have the potential to help reduce overdoses and other opioid-related harms.”
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Patients’ overall pain scores decreased more than 30% over the length of the study.
Expert scientific panels from Europe, Australia, and the United Kingdom have previously reached similar determinations.
The decision came despite polling data indicating that a large percentage of Massachusetts’ voters say they would have refused to sign the initiative petition had they better understood its intentions.