Think of the profit loss!
What a pile of bull crap. Remember, you can pay for a “study” to come up with any result you want.
Benzodiazepine + ethanol = ??
Thc + ethanol = ??
This does not surprise me at all.
And that sounds pretty impressive.
On the other hand, it is difficult to say just how many more premature deaths might occur each year due to other factors, such as an increase in deaths due to driving while high.
In other words, it is very difficult to determine what the net difference would be; and which side it would favor.
Moreover, the law serves many purposes--one of which is didactic; the law serves as a sort of social instructor--and to legalize marijuana is to undercut this particular function of the law.
Now a very good study. Examine death certificates and drawing conclusions is marginal at best. This is the methodology used to try and prove second hand smoke effects and recently has been totally debunked.
That said, not big on recreational pot. Saw too many lose ambition and it IS a gateway to other drugs. But you're dying or have an unmanageable disease?...so smoke a joint. Big deal. Morphine is legal for certain ailments, but marijuana isn't? Doesn't make sense. Personally, if I were terminal my best friends would be rum and valium, providing I'm not in pain. Then give me morphine...har!
Good news for my cancer patients.
some chronic pain patients are turning to cannabis instead of powerful opioid drugs.
There are alternatives to drugs for those suffering from chronic pain. Unfortunately I’ve seen patients choose drugs over those alternatives.
Or is pot now the recreational drug of choice since it's now much easier to get?
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 pretty sure they mean causal relationship.
I personally know people with chronic pain who have done exactly that.
This is why Big Pharma sponsors the Community Anti-Drug Coalition Of America.
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.
pot propaganda BS.
how about the driving death increase (30%).
how about pot use deaths?
how about the harder drugs from pot use.
how about the loser stoners on public assistance (duuuuude) increase?
how much of this is because OBAMACARE IS TOO EXPENSIVE?