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No kidding? People who've been using weed for a while now have been reporting this as a possibility for a couple of years now, but no one was listening "because they were unreliable pot-heads". Yeah, as if that's any worse than the senile demented creeps (who are on alzheimer drugs!) we have in WADC passing laws . . . Good Lord.
QUOTE FROM ARTICLE:
"The quasi-legalization of recreational pot use there has had a dramatically positive effect on the rate of opioid deaths.As reported by Reason Magazine, since the legalized sale of recreational marijuana began in January 2014 after voters in the state approved a measure permitting it (recreational use still remains against federal law, however), the state has witnessed a 6.5 percent fall in opioid deaths."