Ukraine should give its soldiers weed instead of opioids so it can avoid a US-style drugs crisis, doctor says

 Ukraine should give its soldiers weed instead of opioids so it can avoid a US-style drugs crisis, doctor says

A Ukrainian doctor said soldiers should be prescribed cannabis instead of opioids as the country faces an epidemic of the same magnitude as the US.

A nurse taking the pulse of a Ukrainian soldier in an ambulance in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on January 16, 2024.Anadolu/Getty Images