I<\/span>n conjunction with the national\u00a0End Pain, Not Lives\u00a0campaign,\u00a0California NORML has issued\u00a0a report on medical marijuana legalization and the opioid crisis\u00a0and is conducting\u00a0a survey on discriminatory practices against patients\u00a0who use medical cannabis.<\/p>\n The report<\/a> and survey<\/a> are part of Cal NORML\u2019s campaign to end discrimination against patients<\/a> in California who are being denied opioid medications due to their use of medical cannabis.\u00a0The state chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Cal NORML has heard from innumerable pain patients who report they have been able to drastically reduce or eliminate use of prescription opioids by substituting medical cannabis instead.\u00a0Despite this, many physicians and clinics continue to deny\u00a0medical cannabis to patients suffering from pain.<\/p>\n \u201cFor patients struggling to reduce or eliminate their use of opioids, cannabis is a game-changer,\u201d says Dr. Laurie Vollen, founder of Natural Healing M.D. in Albany, California who has treated hundreds of patients using opioids. \u201cThere is no other medicine that I know of that is safer, more accessible, and more effective in reducing opiod use than cannabis.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In early results from the Cal NORML Medical Cannabis Patients Discrimination survey, 17 percent of patient respondents say they have been denied prescription medications due to their use of medical cannabis, with another 7 percent saying they may have experienced this kind of discrimination. Most often pain doctors are the culprits, by requiring drug testing that picks up cannabis; treatment denial in emergency rooms is also being reported. Also, patients are responding that they must increase their use of other drugs \u2014 for pain, sleep or anxiety \u2014 when they are unable to use cannabis for chronic pain.<\/p>\n A growing body of scientific studies\u00a0confirm that cannabis is effective in treating chronic pain, from which an estimated 100 million American suffer. Evidence is mounting that states with medical cannabis laws have lower rates of opioid use and abuse or opioid-related overdose deaths, as well as hospitalizations, traffic fatalities and drug treatment admissions related to opioids.<\/p>\n Submitted by Cal NORML<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/strong> have you ever been discriminated against for your cannabis use?<\/p>\n The post Cal NORML Issues Report, Survey on Legalization & Opioid Crisis<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
California NORML is working to end discrimination of cannabis users in the workplace. In conjunction with the national\u00a0End Pain, Not Lives\u00a0campaign,\u00a0California NORML has issued\u00a0a report on medical marijuana legalization and the opioid crisis\u00a0and is conducting\u00a0a survey on discriminatory practices against patients\u00a0who use medical cannabis. The report and survey are partContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2290,50,53,146,2246],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20925,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20924\/revisions\/20925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Excerpts from the Report:<\/h4>\n
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