Never heard of death by marijuana overdose.
This idiot author gets two things conflated.
Cannabis, which is simply a state’s rights issue, regardless of if someone wants to smoke, or not- and the war on people who need actual pain relief..
Like booze, the federal government should have zero role in what people put into their bodies; part of being an actual conservative is letting other people make their own choices with their lives, otherwise one is merely a socialist who ascribes to a different set of ‘do’s and don’ts’ than the Che shirt wearing twerp but is no better.
People should be able to access whatever they need to mitigate their pain; at a low cost and with practical assistance. Any government that expects its citizenry to live in chronic pain for years while denying and impeding things that could ease same should be overthrown as being just as vile any other dictatorship.
Look at the deaths from opioids.
This person isn’t a doctor and has no business writing this article.
“Opioids were involved in 42,249 overdose deaths in 2016 (66.4% of all drug overdose deaths).”
The numbers have gone up since then too.
The politicians have found an issue to demagogue on and believe it is a wholesome issue akin to being against drug abuse.
The problem is that, for whatever dubious reason, they are using illicit drug use, fentanyl and it’s various synthetic derivatives, into the same class as prescriptive opioids. These are two vastly different issues.
Have some abused prescriptive opioids? Sure, but people abuse any and everything. I see absolutely no reason, excuse, or need to unnecessarily punish the poor people who legitimately need pain medication.
Regrettably, the pendulum continues to swing to the very extreme position, and yet POT FOR EVERYBODY!
the stoner FR contingent comes flooding out of their bong resin drenched hidey-holes to bravely conquer another thread in 3 . . 2 . . . 1 . .
Now that I have chronic pain I understand. No one cares.
Opioids are 1000x more dangerous than any concentration of Cannabis.
I agree entirely with this article. I need a medication for my heart which is a mild sedative. Rather than prescribe me enough medication for say, two months, which would mean I’d only see my doctor once every two months I’m prescribed a one month supply which means I have to see him once every month. That’s great for the insurance company, the doctor and the pharmaceutical company. Typical bs the way America works. When the state, ie the government, wants to wage a ‘’war’’ on something the person it’s ostensibly meant to help ends up getting screwed and a third party ends up making the bucks.
I fail to understand the purpose of the authors attempt to tie the two together.
The only relevance is that pot can help extend the efficacy of opioids.
And can ease the withdraw symptoms from opioids.
She sounds like a bitter addict who has been forced to reduce her consumption of deadly opioids.
Pot is habit forming, but certainly not addictive. As a matter of fact I found it easier to walk away from completely with absolutely zero symptoms of withdrawal. I only wished I could have done the same with cigarettes which are both habit forming and addictive. It has now been 4 months, but there are times I still yearn for a cigarette, such as long drives. Hopefully I am far enough removed that staying away can be accomplished. So far it has not been a problem. The fact that my wife still smokes didn’t help quitting either. 8>)
Anyone with chronic pain who requires prescription meds. is required to refill once/month, which requires your doc to take the time from his busy practice to ok it, and as my doc just informed me...
the doc must open a gov database that tells him everywhere you’ve been prescribed that med.
This is what Trump and Sessions have done. MAGA??
Can you picture increased suicides by those for whom no doctor is willing to lose their license if the prescription is “too high”.
Why is government (force) inserted between us and our doctors?
Very poor analogy.
It puzzles me that some people consider using the stuff a form of recreation.
SC has really cracked down on opioid prescriptions so my cousin spent hours writhing in her bed in pain because she couldn’t get a refill until the next month. I am sick of decent people having to suffer because of lowlifes who would be addicts anyway either on weed, a street drug or stolen pills.
We just discovered cannibis. For the first time in years, she can be pain free for hours at a time.
She does not smoke it, she uses it in brownies.It dulls the pain and does not put her to sleep. She can do more and is even beginning to eat more. She was beginning to waste away. We are in our 70'sand I hope she gets fat LOL.
I still do not use the stuff, but Thank God it was legalized in Alaska.
Denver will soon have opium dens with medical staff on hand. They will be funded by charity which will no doubt give 5% to the opium den and pocket 95% of the government funding. Meanwhile Veterans are left in agony.
Federal Government should get out of health care altogether except the protection from epidemic communicable disease.
The difference is cannabis has not done damage to a single cell in any human body. Even at doses that would be impossible to consume and cost thousands of dollars, you cannot cause damage. If you forget and take another dose of cannabis, it will not harm you. Hell, if you try your damnest to kill yourself, nothing will happen except long sleep. Cannabis has no physical withdrawal symptoms besides slightly less sleep. Coffee and refined sugar are far more physically addictive than cannabis (”dont talk to me until I had my coffee!”).
Opiods can easily kill you if you abuse or just forget about multiple doses. Opiods cause devastating withdrawal sickness that make it near impossible to quit. Opiod tolerance of heavy users goes through the roof and we allow super opiods like fentanyl/carfentanyl to be legally sold.
These things are practically bioweapons that can kill most people with a tiny grain simply contacting their skin. Any comparison to the herbal medicine cannabis is absolutely ludicrous!