treated with cannabis were more likely to experience a significant reduction in pain symptoms. so who's right? joining me now, dr. yasmine herd, the director of the addiction institute at mount sinai behavioral health system and professor of psychiatry and neuro science at mount sinai's school of medicine she wrote this recent article in "fortune," under the headline there's a better way to fight the opepioid crisis. why aren't we focusing on it. dr. herd, can pot be a solution to our epidemic? >> it's not pot that's the solution, it's medical cannabanoids. so the lines have become blurred. in recreational marijuana that people have legalized medical marijuana. and when we say medical marijuana, a lot of people, including perhaps governor christie and the president, thinks that it's the marijuana