States with medical marijuana laws saw 20% drop in some opioid prescriptions: Drug overdoses remain a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 68% of those deaths involve illicit or prescription opioids.

Does that work for the patient? I mean that while there's less bad stuff going into your lungs it doesn't really solve the dosing issue, you can easily put a specific amount of cannabinoids in a specific amount of liquid but it's just like smoking in that even if you told someone to smoke a specific weight of a specific specialised product is there a way to guarantee they're actually capturing the same amount each time they breath in?

I think it should be recreationally legal but I'm still a little surprised doctors can ethically prescribe non-pill forms in medical jurisdictions, that seems like the only way to get a properly regulated dose from the clinic to the patient's stomach.

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