https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/where-marijuana-is-legal-opioid-prescriptions-fall/
Great article here. Covers a lot of stuff obvious to marijuana users, like how opiates mess with digestion among other side effects that cannabis doesn't have.
It mentions that the more access patients have to cannabis the less opiates are prescribed. The states that have active dispensaries issue far less opiate scripts then medical states that don't have active dispensaries.
This isn't in the article but personally, when I've been in major pain after surgery, to the point where I needed opiates. When I was smoking ganja I needed far less painkillers, weaker painkillers, and I was able to get off the pain pills much faster.
This kind of stuff is obvious. It's good to see it in a respectable science blog that a lot of academic types will read. I've seen several good cannabis articles in Scientific American.
Great article here. Covers a lot of stuff obvious to marijuana users, like how opiates mess with digestion among other side effects that cannabis doesn't have.
It mentions that the more access patients have to cannabis the less opiates are prescribed. The states that have active dispensaries issue far less opiate scripts then medical states that don't have active dispensaries.
This isn't in the article but personally, when I've been in major pain after surgery, to the point where I needed opiates. When I was smoking ganja I needed far less painkillers, weaker painkillers, and I was able to get off the pain pills much faster.
This kind of stuff is obvious. It's good to see it in a respectable science blog that a lot of academic types will read. I've seen several good cannabis articles in Scientific American.
