Posted on 05/25/2019 5:18:22 PM PDT by Magnatron
Colorado is trying to help tamp down the opioid crisis by allowing doctors to recommend medical marijuana for any condition meriting a painkiller prescription, The Denver Post reported.
Gov. Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 13 on Thursday, and the new law is scheduled to go into effect on Aug. 2, after passing through Colorado's General Assembly.
“This will substitute marijuana for an FDA-approved medication — something that’s unregulated for something that’s highly regulated,” Stephanie Stewart, a physician in Colorado, told the news outlet.
Under Colorado law, medical marijuana can be recommended for patients struggling with cancer, glaucoma, HIV and AIDS, PTSD or other chronic disorders that cause severe pain, seizures and nausea. The new law includes all conditions in which opioids could be prescribed.
The bipartisan legislation is a win for marijuana backers, but it raises concerns with some addiction-centric medical professionals.
“Our real concern is that a patient would go to a physician with a condition that has a medical treatment with evidence behind it, and then instead of that treatment, they would be recommended marijuana instead,” said Stephanie Stewart, a physician in Colorado.
Backers of the law say it's a safer form of treatment that will help limit the opioid crisis, which is currently at epidemic levels in the U.S. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, every day more than 130 people die after overdosing on opioids.
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And about time...
I suspect they'll be passing pot out to patients it won't work for and then when their numbers look good to show they're fighting opioid use not letting patients go back to an opioid when the pot fails.
Heroin use will probably increase.
JMHo
I don’t think marijuana is a pain killer
Skip that
Don’t like em
Give me what works and has a predictable result and timeline...
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.
You are right. It's all about proper mitigation. But unfortunately, not all pain sufferers that are using opioids (or even those who aren't suffering but get prescriptions anyway) need the heavy-duty firepower of those medications. For these folks, pot would work just fine.
It's all about getting this out of our population to the extent where it's possible.
And they laughably claim Hussein is black! For real a black man is president and for 8 years ignores cannabis persecution?
I take it. I love it. It reduces my pain at night. I took Vicodin and it worked great. Then one day it was gone and the pain management doctor told me there was nothing he could do.
There are so many of us in this predicament. I chose the medical stuff.
But, here is where the “tinfoil hat” comes in. Seems to me the government forced out opioids and the result coincidentally was to bring in revenue from marijuana.
It is but traditionally it has been used externally applied as a poultice or a bath. Ditch weed is fine, it doesn’t need to be dope-grade flower buds.
I don’t really see the point in this. Cannabis is legal for any use in CO so who would need a Dr.’s Rx for it?
Be careful what you wish for
Fentanyl is 1000 times worse than any form of Cannabis medication.
Sure, have them prescribe the MM and go to pick it up. Use it all you want. Dont forget as a user of Marijuana, legal in the state or not, you are no longer allowed to be in posession of firearms. Let that sink in. Opiods yes, marijuana no
I really doubt any poultice would touch the pain killing power of opiates
Nor did I say that it would. I was responding to your statement that you didn’t think cannabis is a pain killer. You said nothing about opiates in your post.
There is a better option for muscular pains and strains and just old age: CBD cream
Non addictive ingredient in pot used in cream-—CBD
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Either way they are coming for our guns so either way it’s MOLON LABE AFAIC.
Yes
The edibles are incredible
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