Opponents of marijuana, beware: A study has found that in states where marijuana is legalized, Medicare saved millions of dollars as marijuana displaced other prescription drugs as an alternative treatment.
Related: Medicare will be broke by 2028
Forbes magazine says that the study, published in the journal Health Affairs by a father-and-daughter research team, examined Medicare data for the period of 2010 to 2013 on prescription drug usage, seeking "to answer two questions: are patients choosing marijuana instead of prescription drugs for conditions that marijuana might treat, and what has been the overall effect on Medicare spending?"
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