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On Monday, Bertha Madras, a professor of psychobiology at Harvard Medical School and part of Trump’s newly formed “Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis,” told a crowd in Wyoming that all of the horrors associated with opioids and prescription painkillers are very similar to what the government predicts will happen with respect to marijuana.
“The lessons that we have learned from opioids are directly applicable or generalizable to marijuana,” she said at a “marijuana education” event, reports the Associated Press.
Dr. Madras, who opposes the legalization of marijuana, even for medicinal use, believes the United States will someday see an epidemic related to the use of legal cannabis. She told the audience that very little was known about opioids at the time when doctors began prescribing them to every patient who walked into their office complaining of a little pain. Now, millions of people are addicted to these types of medications. It for this reason that she wants to encourage lawmakers to err on the side of caution when it comes to the legalization of marijuana. If not, she said, one day the nation we will be trying to figure out how…
