The Exit Drug: Can cannabis help solve the opioid crisis?

DEDHAM, Mass. — Above a pizza parlor, in a nondescript brick building in Natick, Dr. Uma Dhanabalan said she’s saving lives.

“I want everybody to know cannabis is a medicine and that it has killed nobody,” Dhanabalan said.

The odor of marijuana was strong the day we sat down with her inside her offices on Central Street. Dhanabalan is passionate about the the plant, enthusiastic for it’s potential in medicine, disdainful of politicians and doctors who she said, “know jack s*** about” cannabis.