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Pubdate: Tue, 12 May 2015
Source: Palm Beach Post, The (FL)
Copyright: 2015 The Palm Beach Post
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Website: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/333
Author: Robert Sharpe
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n255/a06.html
MEDICAL MARIJUANA HAS LIFESAVING POTENTIAL
Florida needs medical marijuana. I'm not referring to the palliative
relief that medical marijuana brings to patients but, rather, the
protective effect it has against prescription narcotic abuses in a state
famous for "pill mills."
Research published in 2014 in the Journal of the American Medical
Association shows that states with open medical-marijuana access appear
to have a 25 percent lower opioid-overdose death rate than
marijuana-prohibition states. States with established access showed a 33
percent reduction in overdose deaths.
This finding has huge implications for states like Florida that are
grappling with prescription opioid-overdose deaths.
The phrase "if it saves one life ." has been used to justify all manner
of drug-war abuses. Legal marijuana access has the potential to save
thousands of lives.
ROBERT SHARPE, ARLINGTON, VA.
Editor's note: Robert Sharpe is a policy analyst for Common Sense for
Drug Policy, based in Washington.
MAP posted-by: Matt
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