Illinois State Senator Don Harmon is set to introduce a bill to allow people prescribed opioids for a medical condition to apply for a temporary medical cannabis card instead in an effort to help curb the state’s opioid epidemic. In a press release, Harmon, a Democrat, pointed to research that shows “medical cannabis is a safe alternative treatment for the …
Another Study Finds MMJ Patients Replacing Prescription Meds with Cannabis
Yet another study suggests that cannabis could be useful as an exit drug from traditional medications, including opioids, although the research by DePaul University and Rush University researchers was based on a small sample size of 30 patients registered in Illinois’ medical cannabis program. However, the patients, who had a mean age of 44.6-years-old and suffered from cancer, chronic pain, …