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Government-Funded Study Finds Marijuana Stores Reduce Opioid Deaths, But Do Not Increase Suicides or Car Crashes

A large-scale study analyzing over a decade of data from Washington state suggests that a higher density of marijuana retail stores is associated with lower mortality rates from opioid overdoses and accidental poisonings. Published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, the study examined county-level mortality data from 2009 to 2020, comparing it … Continue reading

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