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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
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
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You're not wrong, but a large facet of them do.....
But lets clear a couple things up for local sake. I've been in prehospital care for a long time here, I'm not going to date myself. I can count on 1 hand the number of "heroin" overdoses I've attended to. I also cannot recall the sheer number of prescription narcotic overdoses I've attended to, and then on top of that the most recent participant Fentanyl.
I've encountered countless people that couldn't kick opiates after injuries, and I've encountered countless people that just saw opiates as the next step, or countless people that relied on opiates to balance out their stimulant (crack, cocaine, meth) highs and had no interest in the drug otherwise.
I've never once in my career had any one single person having any sort of issues with marijuana use. Again, countless with Alcohol, ANY prescription drug overdose intentional or otherwise, cocaine and variants, heroin/morphine (they are the same thing), codeine in any form and mixed with any drug.
There are a ton of different lines being towed in here, illegal use, legal use, prescription, non prescription, etc. I know from seeing it, from knowing people, colleagues, etc, that there are many successful uses for medicinal marijuana from pain, to anxiety, to PTSD, to sleep aid, etc. I've observed it, I can't dispute what I see with my own eyes. I'm puzzled how those so staunchly against it remain so just because of its title of an illegal drug.