Posted on 08/26/2014 11:04:45 PM PDT by Ken H
One unexpected benefit of medical marijuana legislation appears to be a decrease in painkiller overdoses, perhaps because some chronic pain patients are turning to cannabis instead of powerful opioid drugs.
In states with laws legalizing medical marijuana, new research shows there are nearly 25 percent fewer deaths from painkiller overdoses. Opioid painkiller overdoses are a growing problem nationwide. More than 16,500 Americans died of opioid drug overdoses in 2010, and the numbers continue to rise.
Although a casual relationship hasn’t been proven, there appears to be a significant association between marijuana legislation and a fall in overdose deaths.
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania reported that in states that enacted medical cannabis laws between 1999 and 2010, there was a 24.8 percent lower annual opioid overdose death rate, compared to states without medical marijuana laws. The study was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health
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How many psychotic episodes cause paranoid pot heads to A: kill themselves? B: kill whom they may think is out to get them?
Absent from that study eh?
I saw more than a few kick off like that, in the joint.
It’s been a long time since the cretins who make the laws in this country have been fit to teach anything to anyone. The laws they write are only self-referentially instructive in the fields of sociopathology and psychotic self-interest.
The drug laws are not didactic unless one is studying the field of corrupt legislation.
Got a link for that total debunking study?
I pretty sure they mean causal relationship.
I personally know people with chronic pain who have done exactly that.
practically every single drug abuser admitted to our hospital for opiate/alcohol abuse has weed in their system....
alcohol on your breath is a dead giveaway and its easy to check for with a quick blood sample....weed not so much....weed users can act laid back and the cop would never know their high except they just crashed their car into a light pole.
and if and when they develop a quick and easy test for weed my intuition and background tell me that a good number of “alcohol” related accidents would also include weed use...its just not checked for....
=> Suicide rates fall when states legalize medical marijuana, says new study
Feb 24, 2012
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B: kill whom they may think is out to get them?
=>Denver crime rates have suddenly fallen.
July 01, 2014
According to government data, the Denver city- and county-wide murder rate has dropped 42.1% since recreational marijuana use was legalized in January.
If you remember the 60s....you weren't really there. I remember little except to see smart kids dumbed down (and much worse ) by cannabis and other psychotropic drugs.
This is why Big Pharma sponsors the Community Anti-Drug Coalition Of America.
Yuk. No thank you.
Shoe fits. Good quote. Lousy excuse for a human being. Met him once at the junior college I was attending. Part of an English department poetry reading that I had to critique for a Lit. Class.
He was one sick puppy.
I find it good news that medical pot is becoming more easily available at the same time the govt Leviathan is making it more difficult for legal users of opioid pain killers to get their medicine. The rescheduling of Hydrocodone is going to disrupt supplies and expand the market of pain killers being bought off the street, including heroin.
I believe patients should have as many treatment options at their disposal when dealing with chronic pain and terminal illness and have treatment protocols driven by medical science and not political/social/ moral/economic influences.
Losers.
Research suggests that getting stoned on THC is safer than getting stoned on opioids. Fine I get it, we all know this, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking this has something to do with medical marijuana.
So did you really let him have it, or did you say nice things in your critique?
in 1969 or thereabouts at age 20, I just thought he was a goofball...it was all just funny to me....I don’t remember what I wrote in the critique.
did not have the political/social acumen I achieved through age and experience.
Hippie!
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