25% fewer than what? Than states that didn't legalize marijuana or than states that did legalize it had before the legalization?
Also; some opioid-related deaths happen when people leave rehab or jail, where they had to stop doing all drugs. When they use again, they use the amount that they were using before they were detoxed, and they accidentally overdose.
If people aren't being arrested for marijuana possesion, either to be jailed or court-ordered into a program, then does that maybe mean that fewer people who use both opioids and marijuana are being apprehended?
Over what time frame was that statistic calculated? Is there actually less drug addiction in the states where marijuana is legal? What about deaths over a 10-year time frame or a 20-year time frame? What about car accidents and work accidents? What are the statistics for those?
Copyright L. Kochman, May 24, 2017 @ 1:56 p.m.
