The Pennsylvania Department of Health is recognizing that medical marijuana can help opioid addiction.
Beth Bittner, the director of communications and outreach for Cresco Yeltrah, talked about the issue on Wednesday during Butler’s Neighborhood Drug Watch meeting.
“So now, if you have an opioid dependency, you are able to go and get a medical marijuana card,” Bittner said.
Cresco Yeltrah is a medical marijuana dispensary in Butler. The company also owns a grow facility.
Bittner says she has been all over the state working to educate people on how Pennsylvania’s new medical marijuana program works and the benefits it can offer. She says she has seen first-hand how marijuana has helped very sick patients and she also suggested that there could be a link between a decline in overdose deaths in Butler County so far this year and the opening of the medical marijuana dispensary in Butler in February.
She also talked Wednesday about a bill recently signed into law by President Trump that allows terminally ill patients who live in states that don’t allow the use of medical marijuana or for patients who don’t have one of the qualifying conditions to try medical marijuana.
“It’s called the Right To Try bill, and it’s a huge move,” she said.
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