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Given Choice, Patients Will Choose Cannabis Over Prescribed Opioids

by Christine Zeindler news.ok.ubc.ca published 2017-02-272 min read

Chronic pain sufferers and those taking mental health meds would rather turn to cannabis instead of their prescribed opioid medication, according to new research by the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria.

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