elizabeth warren asks cdc to consider legal marijuana as alternative painkiller /

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The Massachusetts senator called for more research to be done on medical marijuana and prescription opioid addiction amid abuse and overdose epidemicMassachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to consider the role legal marijuana could play in the prescription opioid epidemic. Warren asked for more research into medical marijuana and painkiller addiction in a letter to the CDC director, Thomas Friedan.Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com