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There have been 56 overdoses (probably more by now) in this state since January 1st none of them from marijuana and in typical Rhode Island fashion we ignore that problem and focus on marijuana. The real problem in this state is prescription drugs, you ask anyone that knows anything and they will tell you that. Prescription drugs are hard to come by and are leading people to heroin. If some of these dr's started prescribing weed instead of highly addictive painkillers maybe we can start to reverse this trend. The older generation has no idea how serious and how common pill addiction is...and that's why you keep reading about another overdose everyday you pick up the paper. It's time people wake up! It's not weed that's harming these people, it's the painkillers and other fatal drugs. Until people realize how serious this is than we are going to keep reading about it in the paper. I believe we should tax and regulate marijuana and stop this silly argument over how bad it is. Compared to the other drug epidemic are state is faced w/ now there is no comparison.

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