By Nick Giambruno
in opioid overdose deaths in states with legal medical marijuana. A recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine had similar findings. And Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a nationally respected neurosurgeon, says: Though it is too early to draw a cause- effect relationship, these data suggest that medicinal marijuana could save up to 10,000 lives every year. Further, there are countless success stories of people being able to wean themselves off opioids using cannabis – when everything else had failed. Cannabis has been proven to mitigate opioid withdrawal symptoms like severe nausea, insomnia, and pain. It’s practically impossible to overdose. There’s never been a single cannabis overdose death... ever. Yasmin Hurd is the director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai in New York City. She discovered that CBD can help repair, at a cellular level, a brain damaged from opioid addiction. And, according to her studies, it can help heal the connections in the brain altered by opioids, which is crucial in helping to break the cycle of addiction. Other studies have had similar results. In other words, CBD can not only treat the underlying pain, but can help addicts kick the habit. And that’s not even the end of CBD’s medicinal potential. CBD has already been used to help treat several medical conditions
Opioids target the area of the brain responsible for breathing. That makes a deadly overdose a real possibility. In many cases, there’s a much safer alternative to using opioids to treat pain... It’s no secret cannabis has incredible medical benefits... including effectively treating chronic pain. Cannabidiol (CBD) – a chemical compound found in cannabis – is particularly useful as a painkiller. In fact, unlike opioids which only mask pain, CBD can help fight pain and minimize inflammation. In many ways cannabis is more
effective than opioids, yet it remains totally illegal at the federal level. But CBD could
change that...
BLAME THE FDA The potential for addiction with cannabis is far less than it is with opioids. And it’s practically impossible to overdose. There’s never been a single cannabis overdose death... ever . According to a comprehensive study from the RAND Corporation, there was a 20% decline
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