While cannabinoids may be able to replace some opioid use, as a long time chronic pain patient, they do not replace all of it.
The 'opioid crisis' is a tool to disenfranchise YOU from having access to the medicines YOU alone have the right to determine whether or not to use.
Don't believe the hype. Do your own research. Be wary of any institution or propaganda that seems likely to force people to use black markets, since those are far more profitable.
I assure you, there are profiteers manipulating this issue, that stand to make incredible black market profits from opiates. The pharmaceutical industry is frustrated that many opiate medicines are off patent, and the same source of opium creates black market drugs that are orders of magnitude more profitable than off patent opiates.
The CIA is the biggest drug dealer in the world, and also extraordinarily invested in propaganda, as well as finance, and big pharma.
Do give this issue some thought.
The current opioid crisis is a derivative of foreign policy wars in opium growing regions.
Among other things, such as the need to silence folk prescribed them, in which case it is quite easy to use an overdose to do so in a deniable way. A great many vets who have insider knowledge of various nefarious matters are Arkancided, IMHO.
yah there is also a weird aspect to all this that i encountered last year. A friend visited me from back east and had to cut his visit short because he could not find a doctor here in Washington to renew his opiate prescription. There was no way to alleviate his pain that was as effective as his usual prescription. And so he had to leave, he was chained to a geographical location by his meds. Might be a side benefit for the scum who run things.
It's one of the hazards of the 'opiate crisis', and due solely to the heightened security measures uniquely applied to such medicines.
He could have got his scrip for baby aspirin filled easily, most likely, unless insurance required his use of a particular pharmacy.
Pharmacy regs are much more reasonable in Mexico.
yah border savvy people get access to really affordable health care, cheap meds all cash transactions, no middlemen.