Association of medical cannabis licensure with prescription opioid receipt: A population-based, individual-level retrospective cohort study

The endocannabinoid system has been implicated in physiological processes fundamental to pain, giving plausibility to the hypothesis that cannabis may be used as a substitute or complement to prescription opioids in the management of chronic pain. We examined the association of medical cannabis licensure with likelihood of prescription opioid receipt using administrative records. This study linked registry information for medical cannabis...