A Disgraceful Little War ~ The Opium War and Commissioner Lin

Gloria Romanorum ^ | 6/26/17 | Florentius

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Numbers would make the statement even more meaningful - but even without them, all sane readers will agree that the American Society of Addiction Medicine knows more about addiction than you do.

They are considerably less authoritative on the subject of medicines in general:

there is no "Medical marijuana" because the plant parts in question fails to meet the standard requirements for approved medicines,

A substance can have medical value without being "approved" - and the Institute of Medicine has reported that marijuana does.

Marijuana has many serious, negative health effects.

So does chemotherapy - but it's appropriate when the disease being treated is even worse.

The point here is that you cannot hold up an organization as an "expert" only when you think they are supporting your position, and then dismiss their expertise when their position goes clearly against you.

The point here is that the American Society of Addiction Medicine has little if any expertise in non-addiction medical matters - as is confirmed by their silly arguments against medical marijuana.

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Whatever the reason for the decline, it weighs no less against your claim of logistical increase.

The "decline" if there was any, is just statistical noise.

Oh, yes? What standard errors did you calculate for those numbers, and how did you calculate them?

there is no good hard data from which to calculate

Then your talk of "statistical noise" was meaningless blather. Color me unsurprised.

The fact remains that the available data, whatever its limitations, weighs against the idea that addiction was undergoing a logistical increase.