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Funny thing is that the only real link I can think of is: I would bet a lottttttt of money that if Marijuana was legalizaed in places with high instances of Opioid addiction, Opioid addiction would drop, as would you know, deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_drug_theory

So I actually don't know much about the subject. Could you (or anyone else) describe what the difference is?

Cronjober put in a Wikipedia link to the concept of gateway drugs. A concept that has been dismissed for 30 years.

marijuana is not an opioid? they're totally different substances, that produce mostly different effects?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid