uc san diego published this in april, appeared in the journal drug and alcohol dependence, found just legalizing medical marijuana correlated with a 23% drop in hospitalizations related to the opioid abuse or overdose. the commission's report, however, makes no mention to medical marijuana. i know you personally oppose the legalization efforts. there were 7,800 comments that went ignored in this report on the online website and the other comments submitted to the commission. how come? >> well, first of all, we have a crisis, as i said, in mental illness and addiction in this country. we love our addictions in america. i just don't think adding more gasoline to the fire by adding a new addictive substance. what we're talking right now about having prescription drug monitoring programs, which is a way of curtailing the prescribing of things like purdue pharma's oxycontin. the notion we would give a
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