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Malcolm
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Fine, let's say that cops aren't suppose to be familiar with illegal chems.

1) Heroin is snortable in powder form. Fentanyl is heroin on steroids. It's not a huge leap to figure out you should need a mask around powdery fentanyl.
2) I assume these officers are also stupid enough to install fibreglass without masks.
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Without seeing the video and the circumstance, you're making a lot of assumptions not in evidence.
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Well, Malcolm, not everyone knows as much about drugs as you.
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ODs and accidental poisonings overtake traffic accidents in terms of annual deaths. Hey feds, good job pushing opioids and anti-depressants over bud and X.
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The drug that keeps on giving.
Among more than 45,000 patients in the study, those using opioid painkillers had a 64 percent higher risk of dying within six months of starting treatment compared to patients taking other prescription pain medicine. Unintentional overdoses accounted for about 18 percent of the deaths among opioid users, versus 8 percent of the other patients.
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Doctos susceptible to bribery. Surprise, surprise.
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Rarely do stories chain together this beautifully.

Given the massive, self-created opioid problem facing the nation...
We’re seeing folks continue to not only become addicted, misusing and abusing prescription opioids, but to make that transition from the opioids to street heroin,” said Gary Tuggle, the DEA special agent in charge of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Heroin, fentanyl, prescription opioids or combinations of the three were found in 81 percent of the overdose victims.
... and the other shitty, synthetic knockoffs of dubious quality ...
K2 has been around for many years, but its pervasiveness and popularity with homeless people caused health officials to warn of a public health crisis last summer. In 2015, New York City had more than 6,000 emergency room visits involving the drug and two deaths, according to the health department.
... a few otherwise useless members of Congress introduced a bill that might encourage the laughably pathetic legal system to do something besides throw offenders in jail and cross their fingers.

Shit, if only there were SOME kind of chem that had few to zero ill side effects yet could still treat chronic pain. Fuck, if only something like that would just grow out of the fucking ground.
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But if it just grew out of the ground how would the pharmaceutical companies be able to control the supply and make their massive profits?
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TPRJones wrote:But if it just grew out of the ground how would the pharmaceutical companies be able to control the supply and make their massive profits?
There's always extra processing. The problem with nature is the lack of quality control. Certain ailments really do require lab grade shit.
A newer 2016 review in The New England Journal of Medicine states that since 2013, data has been collected on patients with severe epilepsy (Dravet’s syndrome and the Lennox–Gastaut syndrome). Among 137 patients treated with Epidiolex (qualifies chemically as hemp, see Legal status below), the median reduction in the number of seizures was 54%.
Even better.
CBD clearly reversed synthetic THC (Nabilone induced) psychoactive effects. CBD had opposite effects to THC on activation of the striatum, prefrontal cortex and medial temporal cortex.
Let me repeat that first part. CBD will undo the insanity effects of synthetic bud. Ah well, it's most likely toxic as shit.
CBD safety in humans has been studied in multiple small studies, suggesting that it is well tolerated at doses of up to 1500 mg/day (p.o.) or 30 mg (i.v.).
Hmm. At least other countries aren't leapfrogging us in terms of treatment options.
Nabiximols (USAN, trade name Sativex) is an aerosolized mist for oral administration containing a near 1:1 ratio of CBD and THC. The drug was approved by Canadian authorities in 2005 to alleviate pain associated with multiple sclerosis. Epidiolex, a drug with cannabidiol as its active pharmaceutical ingredient, received orphan drug status in the United States for treatment of Dravet syndrome in July 2015.

Epidiolex is an oil formulation of CBD extracted from the cannabis plant undergoing clinical trials for refractory epilepsy syndromes.
Shit, Canada? Fucking really? Congress and the DEA are slower, stupider, and more useless than Canadians? Surprise, surprise.
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Drug dealer got paid while killing 18 patients over 5 years. Must be nice to be a legal pusher for half a decade.
The clinics didn't launch a review or investigation after any of the deaths, the commission said.
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Heroin being cut with elephant tranq.
The synthetic opioid is 100 times stronger than fentanyl, the analgesic blamed for increasing overdose deaths and 10,000 times stronger than morphine on the streets.
Damn.
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Maine's governor is a fucking dumbshit.
But in Maine this spring, Gov. Paul LePage, a Republican, questioned the effectiveness of naloxone and vetoed legislation that would have increased access to it.

“Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,” Mr. LePage wrote in his veto message in April. “Creating a situation where an addict has a heroin needle in one hand and a shot of naloxone in the other produces a sense of normalcy and security around heroin use that serves only to perpetuate the cycle of addiction.”
Good to know that once someone's addicted, they have no hope of overcoming it. So let's just let them die already.
Every day across the country, hundreds, if not thousands, of people who overdose on opioids are being brought back to life with naloxone. Hailed as a miracle drug by many, it carries no health risk; it cannot be abused and, if given mistakenly to someone who has not overdosed on opioids, does no harm. More likely, it saves a life.
Sounds horrible. Certainly doesn't deserve funding.
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Arizona says "FUCK YOU" to legal bud ... mainly because they're morons who've bought into bullshit:
“There is much uncertainty – and risk – in this ballot initiative given the short, unsteady track record in states where the drug has been legalized for recreational use,” Vigdor said in his statement. “What we do know from these states is the commercialization of marijuana increases pot-related hospitalizations; youth access and usage; accidental poisonings due to pediatric exposures and marijuana-related DUIs. Marijuana legalization is a bad bet.
Short? Sure, since the feds and many states have conspired to keep the weed unnecessarily illegal for decades on end and generally have tried to curtail research into its benefits.

Unsteady? Uh, no. Try again. The numbers in places where it's legalized are fairly consistent in terms of economic benefit and substance abuse effects.

Pot-related hospitalizations? No doubt harrowing experiences that only the strongest survive. Let's compare that to the number of booze-related hospitalizations. Let's also toss in ODs and chronic diseases related to them. Let's also toss in that's not the fault of the drug, but the fucking idiots tourists who decide that since they aren't feeling one brownie in ten minutes it's a good idea to eat two more right now.

Accidental poisonings? First off, this is a non-toxic substance and I bet poison control sees more patients per day from standard household cleaners. Secondly, that's the fault of dipshit parents who can't childproof their homes.

Marijuana-related DUIs? That's begging the question since no scientific group anywhere has gone on record and done serious studies on the ability of THC to affect driving in the same alcohol does. Any states which have penalties based on the ratio of THC in your blood have no chemical foundation for such rules. For instance, they can't say it's better or worse than driving after insufficient sleep (which is still legal last I checked) which unquestionably affects shit.
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Driving on marijuana will likely cause more crashes, but the number of deaths will plummet because they are going sooooo sloooooow.
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Unregulated dietary supplements are extremely harmful. No shit.
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Wow, this headline isn't misleading.
The packages contained about 20 pieces each and were marked "prescribed medibles" with a reference to a commercial candy brand, according to photos posted to social media.

Masi said each piece had "a very, very high dose of THC," the chemical that gives marijuana its mind-altering effects. Only one or two candies would get a user high, but some people were eating whole packages, officials said.

Lt. Joe Petrycki, commander of the METRICH regional drug task force, said early reports of concertgoers overdosing was too strong a description. He said THC usually gives people a sense of euphoria.

"They didn't lose consciousness," he said. "They just felt different."
Try not eating 10-20x the amount of THC you need next time unless you're Andre the Giant. Noteworthy: even at twenty times the recommended dosage, no one died. Booze, caffeine, or nicotine -- someone probably dies.
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Shithead cunts at the DEA recommend bud stay Schedule I. I can only assume stoners broke into all of their homes as children and anally raped their family in front of them.
Other lawmakers who want to keep marijuana in Schedule 1, such as Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa)...
Ah Iowa, the backwoods, backwards asshole of the midwest whose citizens suck cock professionally for corn and hog subsidies ... what a fucking shock Iowa doesn't think there's any medical benefit. I believe most of that state still relies on home remedies made from donkey semen to cure their ailments. Here's Chuckie's horeshit reasoning.
"What the administration is doing is consistent with my views that the government should facilitate research into whether there’s a scientific basis for marijuana-based medical products. Where there’s the will and the ability to conduct this research, scientists should have access to what they need.

"The parents of children with severe epilepsy and other conditions are interested in cannabidiol to try to ease their children’s symptoms. Research is necessary to determine the potential medical value of cannabidiol, and wherever possible, the government should help facilitate the scientific research needed to give these parents the answers they need.

"With encouragement from senators acting on behalf of our constituents, the administration is taking positive steps to help scientists do their work here."
The fucking problem is asswipes like you don't fund that research at a federal level and there are fuckloads upon fuckloads of other studies already done by states, universities, hospitals, other countries, etc., available for your perusal.

Any holy shit, another member of the Reality TV party thinks weed is grown in Satan's own garden.
There are others in Congress, such as Rep. John Fleming (R-La.), who remain vehemently opposed to most efforts to broaden access to medical marijuana.
However, there is at least one of them who isn't living in the fucking 1930s.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), in a statement:

"The decision by the DEA to continue to categorize marijuana in the same schedule as heroin, LSD, and other very dangerous drugs shows the disconnect between the Obama administration and the common sense of the American people.

The government’s continued allocation of resources and controls with the intent of trying to prevent the adult use of marijuana has been counterproductive and an indefensible limitation of people’s right to control their own lives.

The Obama administration has had the chance to correct a foolish and counterproductive policy. Now it’s up to the Congress and the next administration."
Fuck you, DEA. Go to hell and die, you fucking piggy bastards.
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But if we decriminalize marijuana then how will keep up the prison populations that keep the private prison contractors in business who keep giving money to the politicians? That's what really matters here, after all.
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Think of all the illegal searches that could never happen because a cop couldn't lie and say "I smell weed." Really keeping marijuana illegal is the foundation of our 21st century society.
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This wasn't even about decriminalization. This was about moving bud from the category "dangerous as heroin" down to one notch below, aka "dangerous as cocaine and opiate derivatives."
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