Not to argue your main point, it undoubtedly is a gateway, but I’d argue that there are plenty of people who got to the opioids without trying MJ over the last ten years at least, by starting on pain meds and then getting hooked.
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That’s right. More than one way to get hooked. And not so recent either 50 years ago, a relative of mine used to drive a fuel tanker. He was involved in an accident and was burned over a lot of his body.
Had to have many skin grafts. He got hooked on pain meds. It was really a sad thing.
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Holy freaking cow. THIS IS REAL. THIS IS A REAL TWEET.
It’s not a parody account. She actually tweeted this herself!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
The @DCCC’s new rule to blacklist+boycott anyone who does business w/ primary challengers is extremely divisive & harmful to the party.
My recommendation, if you’re a small-dollar donor: pause your donations to DCCC & give directly to swing candidates instead.
Some great ones:
I mean, she’s gonna have to walk this back. The only question is how long that will be.
But until then.....HA HA HA HA
DNC Media *loves* playing up the divisions inside the Republican party, between the Conservatives and the ‘moderates’, between the Trump people and the establishment people.
The 1 thing the Dem party had going for it was the lockstep unity.
AND IT’S GONE NOW.
SOMEONE STOLE THE LOCKSTEP UNITY.
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL. THIS IS FANTASTIC.
We’re all gonna get to watch a civil war unfold within the Democratic party over the next 2 years leading up to 2020.
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There is a very odd feature of our physiology that is related to opioids. If an individual is actually in extreme pain, they can tolerate doses of morphine that would kill a user ingesting it for pleasure. If someone is enduring long term chronic pain they don’t get addicted in the same way that fools on the street shooting it up for pleasure do. Perhaps because in that case it’s working to alleviate pain, not produce euphoria, though the sudden reduction in pain itself probably feels euphoric. They didn’t give me much in the way of opioids when my back was injured. Mostly lovely Darvon which they took away (off the market) because 1/10th of 1 percent of pregnant women had a bad side effect.
Re your relative:
I had skin grafts as a child; I remember virtually nothing about that time! Must have been on some heavy duty stuff.