{"id":37256,"date":"2019-08-02T10:42:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/colorado-now-allows-medical-cannabis-as-alternative-to-opioids\/"},"modified":"2019-08-02T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T20:51:15","slug":"colorado-now-allows-medical-cannabis-as-alternative-to-opioids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/colorado-now-allows-medical-cannabis-as-alternative-to-opioids\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado now allows medical cannabis as alternative to opioids"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A new law went into effect Aug. 2 that permits Colorado doctors to recommend medical marijuana in lieu of opioids, a development that could boost MMJ sales in the state. In 2017, 3.7 million opioid prescriptions were issued in Colorado, according to the state\u2019s drug-monitoring program. State health officials reported 1,635 overdose deaths caused by [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/colorado-medical-cannabis-as-alternative-to-opioids\/\">Colorado now allows medical cannabis as alternative to opioids<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/colorado-medical-cannabis-as-alternative-to-opioids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado now allows medical cannabis as alternative to opioids<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new law went into effect Aug. 2 that permits Colorado doctors to recommend medical marijuana in lieu of opioids, a development that could boost MMJ sales in the state. In 2017, 3.7 million opioid prescriptions were issued in Colorado, according to the state\u2019s drug-monitoring program. State health officials reported<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/colorado-now-allows-medical-cannabis-as-alternative-to-opioids\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9662,11670,14,8940,11671,9663],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37256"}],"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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37257,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37256\/revisions\/37257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}