Medicaid Marijuana: if legalized, medical marijuana could have saved $1 Billion in Prescription Cost

Medicaid Marijuana – If all states legalized marijuana, Medicaid could have saved $1 Billion in prescription cost. A study conducted by Ashley Bradford and W. David Bradford showed.

Currently, many symptoms such as anxiety, depression, seizures, pain, spasticity, glaucoma and nausea are treated with prescription drugs. Pharmaceutical companies pockets enormous profit from these products. Legal medical marijuana could have treated the same symptoms at a much cheaper price.

The study calculates the cost that patience could have saved by substituting prescription drugs with medical marijuana. The authors computed the cost of medicines used to treat the above diseases between year 2007 and 2014. They compare it with the cost of treatment if patience were allowed to use legal medical marijuana in every state. Click Here to See the Full Article on Forbes