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Re:In Colorado, opioid deaths fall following marijuana legal... by rmetzler on Monday October 16, 2017 @11:59PM (#15488582)
While this is true, there are quite a few stories, where heroine users write about becoming clean with the use of cannabis. Just search https://www.reddit.com/r/trees and see for yourself if you doubt that.

Also, if you have the numbers of calls to ambulance, you might see a drop there too. But maybe that's also not enough evidence for you.

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Re:In Colorado, opioid deaths fall following marijuana legal... by Sacho on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @01:24AM (#15488856)
No, it's not. It's very dangerous to draw correlations like these(i.e. see all the "crime going down"/"crime going up" explanations) because of the huge potential for noise; it's not like we only take one societal decision per year to be able to measure its actual effects.
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Re:In Colorado, opioid deaths fall following marijuana legal... by tertius on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @10:19AM (#15491054)
> But maybe that's also not enough evidence for you.

Anecdotes should not be used to create policy.

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Re:In Colorado, opioid deaths fall following marijuana legal... by senorjazz on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @08:37AM (#15490390)
If people are heavily addicted to heroin, I find it very hard to believe they haven't also been smoking cannabis. 100% of the heroin users I've known have all smoked.

All who have tried to come off it numerous times have tried a plethora of ways o deal with withdrawl, cannabis may help to an extent but only to a small extent

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