It's about time.  I've worked in healthcare for over twenty years and have seen far too many lives destroyed by opioid addiction.  In my experience, most started with an injury and an opioid prescription before being cut off and then moving to illicit street drugs and heroin.

These drugs have their place - short term treatment of severe pain.  For treatment of chronic pain, we desperately need safer modalities and other alternatives.  Cannabis offers one such option, but we need more than that.