Other countries have strict laws about cannabis, and those laws are enforced, and they don't have the problems of opioid deaths that the US has.
The real solution to opioid death is adequate treatment for pain; and treating addiction as a health problem not a criminal justice problem.
Like.... medical marijuana?
Hard to believe you wrote those three sentences without putting two and two together.
Regardless if I partially agree with you, further criminalizing marijuana is also NOT the solution to opioid deaths.
It does a very good job with neuropathic pain though.
The Royal College of Anaesthetists have useful info here: https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-awar...