Re:In Colorado, opioid deaths fall following marijuana legal...
by KGIII on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:28AM
(#15488875)
That seems to imply causation. I am skeptical.
Don't get me wrong, I smoke a lot of pot. I don't do so for health reasons. I just like smoking pot.
The default position I hold is skepticism. There have been some less than truthful claims of efficacy and curative properties.
I'm very much pro legalization. The medicinal benefits have no bearing on this opinion.
> Colorado’s legalization of recreational cannabis sales and use resulted in a 0.7 deaths per month (b = −0.68; 95% confidence interval = −1.34, −0.03) reduction in opioid-related deaths.
Which if I understand right, they're pretty sure it did something, but that something might be so small that the value of reporting it is negligible.