To escort , four U.S. stateshave decriminalizedthe recreational use of hemp , while 20 others have legalized its utilisation for medicinal purposes . People with limiting precondition , such as cancer or multiple sclerosis , can get prescribed pot in purchase order to help with the problem , but there is plenty of anecdotical evidence to suggest that people with other medical experimental condition that are n’t on the circumscribed list could also do good from smoke marihuana .

Some such conditions includethe addiction of opioidsand illegal narcotics , like heroin . There are many people who would assert by the fact that the smoke of pot helped to ablactate them   off painkillers by in part reducing their climb-down symptoms , and a few tentative work might agree , but there is only too little information presently available to come down on one side or the other .

This has n’t , however , stoppedadvocates in Mainepushing to add together opioid and heroin addiction to the list of qualifying aesculapian condition that would admit the prescription of marijuana . The support for the addition comes as there has been a troubling increase in the dependence of opioids not just in Maine , but across much of the U.S. This in turn has led to a shocking increase in the turn of drug overdoses . official in Vermont , for object lesson , have charge opioid addiction for a massive 44 percent increase in drug - interrelate deaths since 2010 .

Without the backbreaking data to back it up though , many Union officials are reluctant to suddenly give it the go forward . Others , however , have argued that when face with such an epidemic , the possible function of medical marijuana to cut drug addiction rates should   be given serious consideration .

If Maine does manage to promote this through , then it will become the first country to add opioid and heroin dependence to the qualifying weather condition of medical cannabis , and could open up the threshold for other state to keep abreast suit of clothes . After a public hearingin which close to 30 aesculapian marihuana caregivers and patient role gave grounds at a public hearing on the virtue of gage to address addiction , the Maine Department of Health and Human Services now has 172 days to respond .

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