“Recreational cannabis dispensary openings are associated with a significant decrease in opioid fills among commercially insured adults in the US,” the study’s authors concluded.
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Cannabis use is associated with improvements in pain-specific and general health-related quality of life outcomes in cancer pain patients.
“Almost one-third of patients experiencing moderate to severe pain at enrollment saw a meaningful reduction in pain symptoms within four months of treatment,” researchers determined.
Licensed dispensaries in the city are eligible to begin engaging in the retail sale of adult-use cannabis products on April 14th.
Marijuana retailers are associated with “significant reductions in mortality rates … for both accidental poisonings and opioid poisoning deaths.”
“Nothing in our tradition allows disarmament simply because [the defendant] belongs to a category of people, drug users, that Congress has categorically deemed dangerous.”
Among those between the ages of 18 and 29, alcohol use fell following the opening of marijuana retailers.
Throughout his tenure in law enforcement, Cole has taken a hardline approach to marijuana and has expressed support for the ‘Just Say No’ strategies of the 1980s.