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First-Of-Its-Kind Study Proves Cannabis Can Cure Opioid Addiction

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By:  Justin Gardner/The Free Thought Project  As the opioid epidemic rages on, those professing to seek "solutions" are willfully ignoring one of the most promising treatments – medical cannabis. When the Comprehensive Addiction & Recovery Act (CARA) was being debated in 2016, amendments to study medical cannabis were stripped out.This happened despite studies showing that medical cannabis eases the neuropathic pain, and the government's own National Institutes of Health stating, "Medical marijuana products may have a role in reducing the use of opioids needed to control pain."

There were also studies showing that deaths from opioids plummet in states with legal cannabis and that 80 percent of cannabis users give up prescription pills. A Feb. 2017 study confirmed that opioid dependence and overdoses dropped significantly in medical cannabis states.

In January 2017, the National Academies of Science published an exhaustive review of the scientific literature and found that one of the most promising areas in medical cannabis is for the treatment of chronic pain.

But all of this falls on deaf ears to those in the pockets of Big Pharma, which is largely to blame for getting America hooked on opioids, as described in a Harvard analysis.

Now, a new experimental study has shown exactly how cannabis works to treat opioid addiction – by actually blocking the opioid reward in the brain.

The use of cannabidiol (CBD), one of two major active ingredients in cannabis, is even more promising for legalization efforts because it does not produce the high that THC does. So prohibitionists who demonize cannabis' intoxicating effect have no ammo when it comes to CBD. CBD can even be extracted from hemp, which is grown for its fiber used in thousands of manufacturing applications.

Because it can't get anyone high, CBD extracts are even being permitted for medical use in staunchly prohibitionist states such as Oklahoma and Utah, to treat children with intractable epilepsy.


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