New Mexico, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania allow people with an opioid addiction to qualify for a medical marijuana card.
But many physicians and medical experts strongly oppose such policies, pointing out that science hasn’t yet shown that dispensary-bought marijuana can deliver the same pain-killing punch as a prescription drug, nor that it can help people kick an opioid addiction.
With CBD showing up just about everywhere nowadays, it can appear that if you’re not having a CBD coffee in the morning, you’re not living right.
It can be easy to have your viewpoint clouded by all of the hype and to forget that CBD can be attributed to having some remarkable aspects.
Previously, most medicinal claims attributed to CBD were based on animal studies. Recently, however, science-based studies have been conducted on humans for a variety of illnesses.
The increase in drug busts comes at a complex time for college campuses. Marijuana use is on the rise among college students nationwide as some states have legalized recreational use of weed and others, including New Jersey, are debating legalization. But marijuana use remains illegal in New Jersey.
Meanwhile, the opioid crisis continues to impact the state. A record-setting 3,163 people died of drug overdoses in New Jersey in 2018.
The campus crime reports do not specify what type of drugs were involved in each incident.
Much of the stigma regarding cannabis can be tied to its classification as a Schedule I drug by the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Cannabis is considered, along with heroin and LSD as substances that “have no currently accepted medical use in the United States, a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision, and a high potential for abuse.”
And yet, it’s a drug that depending on its form can be classified anywhere from Schedule II to V that may be the reason cannabis ultimately is rescheduled or de-scheduled and loses the stigma surrounding its use.