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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
This became about heroin when the last chart showed a decline in prescription painkillers issued by doctors in weed-legal states. If those numbers are legit, this will also lead to a decline in heroin addiction. Because heroin addicts don't generally start out on street level smack. They start out on Vicodin, Percocet, Oxys, whatever their doctor gave them for their tennis elbow.
So it's not 'swapping one poison for another'. Your words. Nobody trades a weed problem for a heroin one. Nobody.
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Your assumption is likely incorrect. Increased medical Marijuana leading to less prescribed opiate medication is not a safe starting point to assume less heroine use. The vast, vast majority of heroine users do not start out as legitimate chronic pain patients