Back at it....WEED and other thoughts.

[pahoated]

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Originally posted by Wuzzerdad
You know we have more prescription drugs now.
Every commercial that comes on TV is a prescription drug ad.

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Well, the first step is you might want to stop calling it "weed". Medical marijuana is legal in the state of Hawaii. Won't go into all the complications but a bill just passed to transfer oversight from the Department of Public Safety (which includes the Narcotic Enforcement Division) to the Department of Health. The governor still has to sign the bill but it went through the house and senate almost unanimously (except right at the end when Josh Green threw in a bunch of restrictions).

This is just another example of how screwed up the U.S. medical system is regarding pain management. Doctors have no fear, or even conscience, of giving out prescriptions like movie tickets for synthetic opiates such as oxycontin, darvaset, percoset, etc., all with a huge set of side effects including destroying the liver, gastrointestinal system, cardiopulmonary system, and other internal organs. As medical professionals, they know full well the destructive side effects of these prescription medicines, and yet consider them "beneficial" because they are "legal" plus ensure returning patient business for ever more complex (=expensive) "treatment" and cashing in on pharmaceutical kickbacks. And yet, if the subject of medical marijuana is brought up, they totally freak out, hysterically pointing to how dangerous it is, how it could lead to addiction, how there is no regulation or "quality" control, how they could lose their license. They have turned the hippocratic oath into the hypocrite oath. The result now is the U.S. has the most expensive medical care out of all the industrialized countries and that care is at the bottom for quality and effectiveness. The news this morning points out the U.S. now has a higher infant mortality rate than Egypt, considered a third world country. The U.S. in the 90's used to criticize the Japanese nationalized health care system as just being "mindless pill pushing". Now, here we are, well into the second decade of the 21st century with commercials for legal drugs like Embrel that have death as a side effect. It makes the sad joke of the treatment being worse than the affliction even more sad.

"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"