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On Tue, 9 May 2017 19:19:52 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
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bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
On 05/09/2017 06:39 PM, Mr. B1ack wrote:
On Tue, 09 May 2017 17:50:51 -0400, Demosthenes
<nospam@demosthenes.nospam> wrote:
Do we want to legalize medical marijuana at the Federal level? We could
prescribe marijuana for pain, instead of opiods. Opiods prescribed for
pain lead to addiction and lead to heroin. So, we prescribe marijuana
for pain instead.
Careful ... they may just decide that God WANTS sinners
to suffer :-)
Actually as a Medical Marijuana patient I doubt very much that cannabis
will ever replace opiates for pain relief. They use synthetic
opiates like Fentanyl to do surgery as a simple example.
But the only improvement that cannabis offers is that it is not
a respiratory depressant. Sometime you need to have respiratory
depression but not while abusing multiple respiratory depressants
like opiates and alcohol.
Well, from long-past experience, cannabis did NOT
immunize you from pain. It could kind of distract you
from MINOR discomforts but it sure as hell wasn't
something you'd take for a fractured femur or twisted
spine or having your internal organs prodded.
The dose of even the less-intoxicating derivatives that
would be needed for opioid-level effectiveness ... if
there IS such a level ... would leave you so whacked
out as to be a de-facto invalid.
Otherwise Demosthenes seems to be a Troll widely cross-posting.
In any case the "opioid epidemic" is just the latest bit of
propaganda generated on behalf of the beer/wine/liquor
industry. There has been a slight uptick in overdoses
but that's because of the "drug war" ... some pinheaded
puritan thought that by making factory-made pills hard
to get that everybody would magically become a good
little hymn-singin' puro-Christians. Nope - as predicted
they turned the other way at the intersection and headed
straight down to Harry the heroin dealers place ........
Just as when alcohol was prohibited it promoted the enrichment
of criminal entrepreneurs so will overly strict rules regarding
opiates and their derivatives cause criminals to become much richer
to the point that they will help elect moralists to high office
to increase their profits.
Well, there are a couple of factors involved here.
One IS the profits of alcohol producers ... which are VERY
considerable - and they DO grease their politicians. These
people are the main reason for the prolonged reefer
prohibition. "We need more studies !" ... yea, right ... been
"studied" for millenia.
Another important factor is what's often called the "Church
vote" ... in short quasi-fundy puritan-prescriptive blue-nosed
bony-finger-in-yer-face maximum-micromanaging Xians.
Leaders DO covet that large voting bloc even though you
might say they're "establishing" religion by doing so. This is
the faction that thinks there should be no pleasure or joy
EXCEPT in the contemplation of their god. It's for your own
good ya know. Not all so much different from ISIL and
al-Qaida actually IMHO ....
There's the "Soccer-Mom" bloc ... who'd keep little Timmy
and Tammy chained up in a padded basement for their
"safety" if it was legal.
There IS a legit "medical" bloc that's worried about side
effects and overdoses. However the politicians only
pay attention to them when it's politically USEFUL to
do so ... enough lead in your drinking water to make
a car battery - who cares ?
Alas the "drug war" has caused vast numbers of unneeded
casualties. The biggest problem with opioids has always
been the QUALITY of street drugs - the dosage is always
a mystery, gotta actually try it to see if your're gonna die.
The recent war on Oxy's caused large numbers of people
to switch from a predictable dose of good stuff to mystery
doses of gawd-knows-WHAT'S-in-it. Any theory that this
was not going to be the case ... put that down to the
puritan faction. IMHO they're guilty of mass murder.
Drugs CAN be pretty bad - but high quality legal drugs
of known strength ain't gonna be NEARLY the problem
of whatever the street dealers come up with. There's
also a psychological factor oft called the "perception
of shortage" - advertisers use it "Buy NOW before
supplies run out !" - and users of street drugs always
feel under pressure, under the gun - so they use more
and more often, just in case.
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