I'm a medical cannabis patient in the UK (medical cannabis was quietly legalised in 2018, there's only 10-20k private patients and virtually none on the NHS so

I'm a medical cannabis patient in the UK (medical cannabis was quietly legalised in 2018, there's only 10-20k private patients and virtually none on the NHS so even a fair few police officers don't know it's a thing yet!) and opiates scare me too. Anecdotal I know but I was given a box of codeine after having my appendix out recently and didn't even need a quarter of them so I could definitely see cannabis displacing the less powerful opiates to some extent in the future. I guess it depends on the type of pain but I find cannabis more effective than codeine for the neurological pain I'm prescribed it for anyway.