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Opiates are probably not that risky and that we should use them more liberally. >> they don't wear off. >> it was the 1990s and doctors were seeing a lot of commercials like this one. >> these drugs which i repeat are our best, strongest pain medications should be used much more than they are for patients in pain. >> problem is, while they were fda approved for some kinds of pain, they were never intended to be used long term. >> we started to see patients who were prescribed opiates for their pain condition who had never been addicted to anything becoming addicted to those drugs. >> dr. nora ...

Marijuana legal. >> prop 215. >> allows the sick and dying to use medical marijuana for medical reasons. >> when it was legalized, i didn't jump on the bandwagon, saying i'm going to start using it. i was asking myself, are we going to make the same mistake? because there was not a lot of evidence with cannabis either at the time. >> but there was history. before marijuana was banned in the 1970s, it was used for more than a century as a treatment for many disorders, including leprosy, epilepsy and pain. >> and so you have to consider that. i started looking at medical cannabis as an alternati...

Fda. >> proved for some kinds of pain they were never intended to be used long term. >> started to see patients who were prescribed open ates for pain becoming addicted to those drugs. >> the director of the national institute on drug abuse believes that was the beginning of our opioid crisis. we knew that there was a danger. we knew that they weren't as effective after a period of time and yet it still happened anyway. >> marketing. >> we've started questions whether we should be using opioids. but we didn't have a lot of good alternatives at the time. >> proposition 215 made medical marijuan...

>> the director of the national institute on drug abuse believes that was the beginning of our opioid crisis. we knew that there was a danger. we knew that they weren't as effective after a period of time and yet it still happened anyway. >> marketing. >> we've started questions whether we should be using opioids. but we didn't have a lot of good alternatives at the time. >> proposition 215 made medical marijuana legal. >> prop 215. >> allows the sick and dying to use medical marijuana for medical reasons. >> i didn't jump on the bandwagon. are we going to make the same mistake? there is not a...

Don't see why you shouldn't have access to it. >> when it came to defining who should have access to it, proposition 215, the 1996 ballot initiative that decriminalized medical marijuana in california purposely left things vague. >> it listed approximately ten conditions but then it said or any condition agreed upon by the physician and the patient where cannibus could be helpful. that leaves it between the doctor and the patient which is where it belongs. >> dr. alan frankel practiced internal medicine for 26 years before dedicating 80% of his practice to medical marijuana. in over two years,...