Posted on 08/27/2014 7:45:57 AM PDT by mgist
What they won't tell you is this: Dr. Bachhuber is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) "Scholar". The doctor noted a conflict of interest regarding funding for his research, on the original JAMA article. The RWJF has been accused of publishing for propaganda purposes in the past:
"In 1999, RWJF awarded a two-month contract worth $51,844 to Home Front Communications, for the "production and distribution of television messages to encourage enrollment in CHIP," the Children's Health Insurance Program. [5] Home Front is a broadcast public relations firm infamous for having produced two video news releases for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services promoting the benefits of the controversial Medicare drug law. [1] The Government Accountability Office later ruled that the VNRs had "violated the restriction on using appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes." [2] Other Home Front Communications work for RWJF, done in conjunction with the PR firm Burness Communications from 2003 through mid-September 2007, includes producing and distributing "86 broadcast material packets to television stations and/or radio stations highlighting health and health care issues important to RWJF and featuring RWJF grantees and their work," reaching "more than 684-million viewers." RWJF noted, "Much of the content was utilized by stations in the top 20 or 50 markets."
This, boys and girls, is a small example of how the powerful drug money laundering Bankster cartels are manipulating the peasants into believing that narcotics are good for your health, while opiate deaths have actually surpassed alcohol and car crashes in accidental deaths in the US. Make no mistake that the 1% is funding the drug legalization campaign, that deceptively pretends to be citizen activism. They have blood on their hands, and God will take care of them. everyone else take care of your families. Nothing is what is seems.
Not to mention cutting into Big Pharma profits. That’s the real issue.
If that were the case then there would be a decline in heroin use in Washington State which has legalized marijuana. Heroin is booming in the PAC NW. The vast majority of it originates in Mexico. Despite what many people think, the booming Afghan opiate product goes other places than the US.
Well, if it’s a choice between empowering the government via an endless, freedom-killing drug war, and empowering “banksters” (whoever they are), I’m definitely not siding with the government.
Or - it may not....
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There is a possibility this "scholar" may not know anything, or, alternatively, he is absolutely certain he knows nothing, possibly because of heavy cannabinoid use.
You are making a false comparison. The article deals with the reduction of death from prescribed opioids when legal marijuana can be prescribed for pain relief. It makes no claims regarding deaths from the use of illegal drugs such as heroin.
No it just means they did not decide the conclusion of their study before it was conducted.
Who do you think bought and paid for this Manchildchurian candidate?
WALLSTREET!
That would be the "conclusion" they never reached.
Author Insights: Legalizing Medical Marijuana May Reduce Opioid Deaths
I don’t see how they could reach a firm conclusion since marijuana has been legal for such a short time. I can’t access the study but I would hope they would address efforts those states have made to reduce opioid deaths such as trying to reduce pill mills.
I do stand corrected. One part of the abstract mentions just deaths from prescribed opioids the other mentions deaths from both legal and illegal use. I would not expect see a reduction in deaths from illegal drugs cause I sincerely doubt most are under the care of a physician or using heroin to treat chronic pain. Most likely medical marijuana would not be considered a viable alternative to them.
Oh I saw that they really did not reach a conclusion. I’m kind of surprised they even bothered with publishing it. Why not wait till medical marijuana has been legal long enough to have a large enough population to do a better study?
What does illegal heroin have to do with the pharmaceutical industry? Furthermore, heroin use has been on the rise for at least a decade, even while marijuana was illegal.
They do this constantly. When these "scientific" or "medical studies" are published, people believe them, even professionals. That is how they accomplished the Global Warming Scam. Innocent people fall for this crap.
If you don't think they are after you kids, think again.
George Soros’ Shocking ‘Methadone Man’ Comic Book Touts Virtues of Drug http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/08/26/george-soros-shocking-methadone-man-comic-book-touts-virtues-of-drug/#
I don't know either -- the whole confused article seems like a bit part from a Cheech & Chong movie. The indecisiveness of the language suggests the authors are the ones abusing drugs.
I think they will eventually find (if they can remember what they started the study for) that the kind of people addicted to opioids are the same people that took up recreational cannabis use. They just transition from one to the other, most often from cannabis to opioids.
haha, your right, it is a stupid report. The problem is that it will be used and reported as factual “news”.
In my opinion the Opium Wars are alive and well, except this time the Chinese are us.
History certainly does repeat itself.
The Story of Opium
http://opioids.com/narcotic-drugs/chapter-2.html
“But in 1834, the old Emperor Tao-kwang, himself a reclaimed opium-smoker, determined if possible to save his country. He first of all took the sense of the people through his high officials, Shall we legalize and tax the trade, or shall we annihilate it?”
http://anglicanhistory.org/asia/china/moule_opium1881.html
I’ve got news for ya buddy, “Wall Street” is “Main Street”. I own shares in many companies, both directly and through retirement plans, and I’m not rich, nor am I alone.
These tired old phrases may get traction on progressive websites, but not with me.
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