Associations between medical cannabis and prescription opioid use in chronic pain patients

The clinically and statistically significant evidence of an association between MCP enrollment and opioid prescription cessation and reductions and improved quality of life warrants further investigations on cannabis as a potential alternative to prescription opioids for treating chronic pain.

Study: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0187795