By Matthew Spina
A drug-policy consultant will visit Buffalo on Tuesday to argue that
New York should legalize recreational marijuana not simply because, in
his view, the current system squanders police resources, targets certain
minorities and fosters a dangerous, underground economy.
Legalizing marijuana, says Nicolas Eyle, can help counter the deadly
opiate epidemic sweeping the nation because studies have shown people in
medical-marijuana states will select pot over more dangerous drugs to
relieve pain. He reasons that more people would reject opiates if
marijuana were more widely available through legal means.
"If marijuana has been proven in states that have medical marijuana
to counteract opioid use, then I don't see why it wouldn't be any
different if people could buy it without a prescription," Eyle told The
Buffalo News in a recent interview. "If you could just go buy it, it
would solve a lot of problems."
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Source: The Buffalo News (via The Empire Report)
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