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Yeah, banning opioids isn't the solution, unless you think people should needlessly suffer. I've had a hernia surgery and my wife had throat surgery, and I don't think that marijuana would have been the answer for the first several days after either surgery.

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>> If people have chronic pain

Chronic pain refers to long term pain. Your hernia surgery is short term pain.

No-one credible is suggesting preventing using opioids for short term (such as post operative) pain (although it does seem that Drs in the US prescribe too much for this type of pain).

Sorry, I missed that part of it.

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