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Legal weed will solve the ovoid epidemic.


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2017 Jun 24, 8:08am   1,695 views  8 comments

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-hopes-ride-on-marijuana-amid-opioid-crisis/

based painkillers, alternatives to opioids that have led to widespread abuse and caused the U.S. health regulator to ask for a withdrawal of a popular drug this month.The cannabis plant has been used for decades to manage pain and there are increasingly sophisticated marijuana products available across 29 U.S. states, as well as in the District of Columbia, where medical marijuana is legal.There are no U.S. Food and Drug Administration

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1   Blurtman   2017 Jun 24, 8:50am  

It increases creativity and will contribute to the birth of new ideas and industries.

2   anonymous   2017 Jun 24, 8:59am  

Gentle Readers,
We need to legalize all drugs. Unless someone shows up with a new "War on Drugs" strategy that would actually work, then let's call a truce. In the interest of full disclosure, I do not use drugs.
Regards,
Roidy
P.S. If we do get rational about the War on Drugs, what will law enforcement do for grins? Direct traffic?

3   RWSGFY   2017 Jun 24, 9:01am  

tovarichpeter says

Legal weed will solve the ovoid epidemic.

Wrong: the only solution to the ovoid epidemic is common-sense chicken control legislation. Or outright chicken ban.

4   justme   2017 Jun 24, 9:55am  

Damn, you beat me to it with the egg joke.

5   RWSGFY   2017 Jun 24, 2:53pm  

And close the damned farmers market loophole already!

6   justme   2017 Jun 24, 8:03pm  

But he mistyped it, it should be Ovioid, should it not?

7   georgeliberte   2017 Sep 21, 7:38am  

Yeah Ontario, trying a Libertarian common sense solution and shedding the hysteria of drug warriors.And I leave you with a picture of the future Drug Czar.
8   Dan8267   2017 Sep 21, 7:52am  

Legal weed would have prevented the opioid epidemic. Consider those addicts more victims of the war on drugs. And another price of banning pot: rape.

Women With Opioid Addiction Live With Daily Fear Of Assault, Rape
In Cambridge, Mass., a woman named Kristin sits down on a stone bench to talk about a common but rarely discussed injury that's starting to grow along with the opioid epidemic: rape.

It's an assault active drug users often don't report out of shame, distrust of police, or fear they'll be labeled a "cop caller" and have trouble buying heroin.

The road to trouble starts many mornings, says Kristin, when she wakes up, sick and desperate for heroin but afraid to shoplift, sell the goods, and seek a dealer on her own. So she finds a male buddy, someone she calls a running partner.

"It's just safer. People are less likely to beat you, rob you, sell you fake drugs if you've got a strong, well-known man with a reputation — a good reputation —you know," says Kristin, 32, who still has the lanky body of a high school backstroke champion. She's been addicted to opioids since she was 13 when they were prescribed to relieve pain after a shoulder surgery.

To prevent attacks, some women travel in pairs, but some say that doesn't protect them from gang rape.

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