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Dino vow to help lead us out of the opoid epidemic, it would probably look a lot like cannabis. >> it actually heals it. that is extraordinary. you wrote a letter to the attorney general jeff sessions about this issue. >> it is still a schedule one substance meaning that it is illegal, but also been pre-ordained as having no medicinal bennett. th benefit. that is not you true. it is pre-ordained for a high abuse potential. there could can be abuse of any. so the real barriers for researchers who are trying to study this. the thing you allege hear baway is we need more research. we do. but if i...

This drug, cannabis, should not be illegal medicinally. it's a schedule 1 substance because it's preordained and this is a legal thing, not a medical thing, preordained as a high abuse potential. same as heroin or cocaine. the studies don't bear that out and listed as something with no medicinal benefit and the science doesn't bear that out. >> and your feelings about on the record for a while. and in fact, you have written an open letter to the attorney general jeff sessions advocating that he allow marijuana to be used as a treatment for opioid addiction and also for pain. >> i did. there wa...

Pills can be deadly. brandy took too much vicodin and other drugs and died. >> it's too easy to pull something out of somebody's medicine cabinets. i'm outraged there's not more being done about it. >> reporter: in 2011, 131 million prescriptions were written for vicodin, which goes by several brand names. it's a mix of the ingredient in tylenol and hydrocodone. the drug enforcement administration can't win the battle and is pleading to make it harder to get vicodin. >> if it has more restrictive manners tied to it, it would help reduce the abuse potential. >> reporter: the drug agency wants v...

Prescribing percocet which have a high abuse potential. >> gregg: we just got a cvs statement. >> heather: do you think this will keep patients from -- who need these medications from being able to get them or will they say it is too much of a hassle and not try to get the medications? >> it seems the way they enacted this program under the table in a sense, caused a lot of people who legitimately needed these medicines to be unable to get them. they need to revamp this process. there needs to be a definite communication. >> i think the lawyers got to cvs with the stories of abuse of oxycontin...

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