Opiate use in America is related to the most severe cases of PTSD - childhood sexual assault. Cannabis is known to help with PTSD. Even the VA is looking into it. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/government- ... -veterans/The enactment of medicinal marijuana laws is associated with significantly lower state-level opioid overdose mortality rates, according to data published online today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine.
A team of investigators from the University of Pennsylvania, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore conducted a time-series analysis of medical cannabis laws and state-level death certificate data in the United States from 1999 to 2010 — a period during which 13 states instituted laws allowing for cannabis therapy.
Researchers reported, “States with medical cannabis laws had a 24.8% lower mean annual opioid overdose mortality rate compared with states without medical cannabis laws.” Specifically, overdose deaths from opioids decreased by an average of 20 percent one year after the law’s implementation, 25 percent by two years, and up to 33 percent by years five and six.
http://blog.norml.org/2014/08/25/jama-m ... atalities/
JAMA - Opiate Deaths Down In Some States
JAMA - Opiate Deaths Down In Some States
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