White man hook-um red brother on firewater ... Indian hook-um white man on tobacco ... white man hook-um red brother on wampum ... Indian hook-um white man on weed ... it all work-um out in the end!
Posted on 02/12/2016 2:06:28 PM PST by beaversmom
Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to consider the role legal marijuana could play in the prescription opioid epidemic.
Warren asked for more research into medical marijuana and painkiller addiction in a letter to the CDC director, Thomas Friedan.
"Opioid abuse is a national concern and warrants swift and immediate action," Warren wrote.
Her request comes as politicians, including the presidential nominees, search for the best response to the opioid epidemic.
The use of prescription opioids doubled between 2000 and 2014, according to the CDC. And Massachusetts experienced its highest number of unintentional opioid overdose deaths in 2014, with nearly 1,100 people succumbing to overdose deaths.
Warren applauded the CDC's actions so far to curb the epidemic but called on the agency to look at whether medical marijuana could be an alternative painkiller.
She also urged the agency to quickly finalize its guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain and called for increased collaboration between the CDC and other federal health agencies to determine the long-term effects of opioid use in children and the increased use of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl.
Nestled in with these recommendations is a call to consider the role of marijuana legalization in the crisis.
Specifically, Warren requested the agency to provide more information on "the use, uptake and effectiveness of medical marijuana as an alternative to opioids for pain treatment in states where it is legal".
She also asked them to look into "the impact of the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana on opioid overdose deaths".
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Ping for your Interests.
like this country doesn’t have enough stoners and tweakers running around, gee thanks Senator.
between the CDC and other federal health agencies “
Hey Pocohontas, the CDC is a privately owned company
all part of the plan......keep the masses stoned.
You support national prohibition? Which section of the Constitution delegates that authority to fedgov?
White man hook-um red brother on firewater ... Indian hook-um white man on tobacco ... white man hook-um red brother on wampum ... Indian hook-um white man on weed ... it all work-um out in the end!
The only thing marijuana does is make you stupid ,nothing else
Elizabeth Warren: “Let them smoke pot.”
Broken clock, and all that.
If you remember, that is...
we already have enough dopes, and now she wants more.
Trying to increase her voting base, perhaps?
I’ll assume no one you know has gone through chemotherapy. Even so, surprised anyone doesn’t know.
Opiate addicts are preferable?
of course not, how will pot and opiates be. they will use both.
there is no difference between the two.
Let me qualify that statement: stoners eat a lot, pill-heads just lay around a lot.
Neither is useful to anyone in this country.
well there are enough dopes to vote for her for sure.
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