More and more people every single day are finding more reasons to switch from their prescriptions that carry multiple side effects to cannabis which only side effects include being happy, hungry and sleepy.

People who qualify for medical marijuana prescriptions frequently report substituting the substance for their other prescription medications.

In an anonymous survey, 66% of 350 clients at the Berkeley (Calif.) Patients Group, a medical marijuana dispensary, said that they use marijuana as a prescription drug substitute. Their reasons: Cannabis offered better symptom control with fewer side effects than did prescription drugs.

Two-thirds of a medical marijuana dispensary’s surveyed clients admitted to using cannabis as a substitute for prescription drugs.

Those with pain symptoms said that marijuana has less addiction potential than do opioids. Others said marijuana helped to reduce the dose of other medications.