Story highlights White House press secretary Sean Spicer seemed to tie recreational marijuana to the opioid crisisMany experts argue that he may have gotten the opioid epidemic wrong(CNN) As White House press secretary Sean Spicer spoke Thursday about "greater enforcement" of federal marijuana laws, he seemed to link recreational pot use to a different type of drug: opioids. "I think that when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing that we should be doing is encouraging people. Yet when it comes to recreational marijuana and opioid addiction, many experts say there's no definitive evidence to support an exclusive connection between them. "We know why there's an opioid addiction epidemic. "The driver behind that increase in opioid addiction has been an overprescribing of pain medicine, overexposing the population to a highly addictive drug."

Source: CNN February 24, 2017 17:26 UTC