--- title: John Kasich: Marijuana Can't Stop Ohio's Opioid Crisis description: Ohio Gov. John Kasich said his state’s medical marijuana program would not help alleviate its opioid crisis canonical: https://time.com/4720116/john-kasich-ohio-opioid-crisis-marijuana/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-31T00:28:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:51:10.735Z article:section: Politics og:title: John Kasich: Marijuana Has No Place in Stopping Ohio's Opioid Crisis og:description: Even though lawmakers from both parties say otherwise og:url: https://time.com/4720116/john-kasich-ohio-opioid-crisis-marijuana/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc28f8be57efda30f/6988c0af86f68e84e96e40ee/john-kasich-ohio-governor-opioid-crisis-marijuana.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Ohio Governor John Kasich Speaks To Press After Meeting With President Trump At The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: John Kasich: Marijuana Has No Place in Stopping Ohio's Opioid Crisis twitter:description: Even though lawmakers from both parties say otherwise twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc28f8be57efda30f/6988c0af86f68e84e96e40ee/john-kasich-ohio-governor-opioid-crisis-marijuana.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # John Kasich Says Medical Marijuana Has No Place in Stopping Ohio's Opioid Crisis > Sponsored content. 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John Kasich discounted recent studies and state lawmakers from both parties on Thursday when he said his state’s medical marijuana program would not help alleviate its opioid crisis. While at a news conference announcing new [limits on opioid prescriptions](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/ohio-limits-opioid-prescriptions-just-seven-days-n740531), a reporter asked Kasich what role medical marijuana might play in reducing the increasing number of opiate overdose deaths in Ohio, according to [Cleveland.com](http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/03/gov%5Fjohn%5Fkasich%5Fsays%5Fmedical%5Fm.html). “I know it’s not recreational marijuana, not recreational use, but I don’t see a role for it in this at all,” Kasich said, according to the Ohio news website. He added that telling children to stay away from drugs while endorsing marijuana could send mixed messages. Ohio’s [medical marijuana law](http://time.com/4362524/ohio-legalizes-marijuana/?iid=sr-link1), which Kasich signed last summer, allows doctors to recommend that patients with certain medical conditions buy and use marijuana. Individuals are not allowed to smoke weed or grow it at home. A [number of studies](http://time.com/4419003/can-medical-marijuana-help-end-the-opioid-epidemic/?iid=sr-link1) in recent years have found that [opioid deaths decreased](http://time.com/4404697/marijuana-opioid-epidemic/?iid=sr-link6) in states where medical marijuana is legal. Marijuana is far less addictive and less deadly than opioids, and research has shown it [can ease pain](http://time.com/3931863/medical-marijuana-benefits/?iid=sr-link5). Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers in Ohio even cited the opioid crisis as a reason to pass the state’s medical marijuana law last year, [Cleveland.com reported](http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/05/medical%5Fmarijuana%5Fbill%5Fclears.html) at the time. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4720116/john-kasich-ohio-opioid-crisis-marijuana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4720116/john-kasich-ohio-opioid-crisis-marijuana/"},"headline":"John Kasich Says Medical Marijuana Has No Place in Stopping Ohio's Opioid Crisis","datePublished":"2017-03-31T00:28:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:51:10.735Z","description":"Even though lawmakers from both parties say otherwise","url":"https://time.com/4720116/john-kasich-ohio-opioid-crisis-marijuana/","keywords":["Ohio","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc28f8be57efda30f/6988c0af86f68e84e96e40ee/john-kasich-ohio-governor-opioid-crisis-marijuana.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc28f8be57efda30f/6988c0af86f68e84e96e40ee/john-kasich-ohio-governor-opioid-crisis-marijuana.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ohio Governor John Kasich Speaks To Press After Meeting With President Trump At The White House","caption":"Ohio Governor John Kasich speaks to reporters after a closed meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, on Feb. 24, 2017 in Washington, D.C.","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4720116/john-kasich-ohio-opioid-crisis-marijuana/","name":"John Kasich Says Medical Marijuana Has No Place in Stopping Ohio's Opioid Crisis"}}]}] ```