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There's one thing that appears to be saving more lives during the opioid epidemic than anything else--medical cannabis. While government touts meaningless attempts at addressing the problem--paying lip service to the people while protecting Big Pharma's profits and filling jails--people are saving themselves by turning to an ancient plant.
Yet another scientific study has confirmed that medical cannabis access reduces harm from opioid abuse among the population. A recent study published in the Drug and Alcohol Dependency journal found that states with legal medical cannabis experience fewer hospitalizations related to opioids.
"Medical marijuana legalization was associated with 23% and 13% reductions in hospitalizations related to opioid dependence or abuse and [opioid pain reliever] OPR overdose, respectively; lagged effects were observed after policy implementation."
Researchers from the University of California analyzed hospital administrative records for the period of 1997 to 2014. The author reported:
"This study demonstrated significant reductions on OPR- (opioid pain reliever) related hospitalizations associated with the implementation of medical marijuana policies. ... We found reductions in OPR-related hospitalizations immediately after the year of policy implementation as well as delayed reductions in the third post-policy year."
The data also show that cannabis-related hospitalizations did not increase after legalization, contrary to what prohibitionists would have you believe.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @08:45PM (4 children)
Precisely. I doubt very much that they don't know these things to be true, they just don't care. It turns out that they like money more than the problems that will come after they've died. And, yes, with global warming, the worst effects won't happen until after these 60 and 70 year olds are dead.
I think it's short-sighted personally as we all depend upon previous generations working to improve the world for our benefit. The fact that the Baby Boomers decided to be such greedy bastards makes it that much harder to convince the Gen Xers and Millenials to plan for whatever future generations.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday March 17 2017, @10:03PM (3 children)
Don't forget about compartmentalized thinking. Tell a lie enough times and you believe it.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 17 2017, @10:10PM (2 children)
Says who?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @10:48PM
Anyone who is aware of the Dubya/Cheney White House. [google.com]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by GlennC on Saturday March 18 2017, @05:07PM
The "Big Lie Theory" has been around for quite a while.
Here's a link to one of the original references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie [wikipedia.org]
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.