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What do we do about heroin/opiods that are the real problem today? Cheap, highly addictive. Multiple overdoses today in my local news feed reported.... :( You

by readhn 8y ago

What do we do about heroin/opiods that are the real problem today? Cheap, highly addictive. Multiple overdoses today in my local news feed reported.... :( You cant overdose and die from MJ use (or its highly unlikely). This whole war on drugs thing feels like a game of smoke and mirrors...

readhn 8y ago
"The scale of America’s opioid epidemic is shocking. It is the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history. In 2016 alone, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War and car crashes, gun violence, and HIV/AIDS ever did in a single year. In total, more than 170 people are estimated to die from overdoses every day in the US, and most of the deaths are linked to opioids."
tghw 8y ago
Legalize cannabis. Opioid deaths have dropped here in Colorado since legalization.
- p1mrx 8y ago
  Are individuals successfully transitioning from opioids to cannabis, or does legalization primarily affect the ratio of new users?
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draw_down 8y ago
From what I remember, you’d need to smoke something like 3/4 ton of cannabis in a short time to die. So, safe to say you can’t. Which is why you’ve never heard about it happening.
djsumdog 8y ago
Treat addiction as a problem and offer treatment. Oh wait, we don't even have real universal health care. Rehab centers are stupid expensive. In America, only the rich get afford the $2k to $5k up front for the cheap rehab. That's why they end up making so many music videos about it.
Pmop 8y ago
I particularly support legalization to full extent of any recreative psychoactive drugs, even ones deemed evil. Drug users are often more vulnerable to external factors not related to the drug itself, such as bad drug quality (drugs mixed with elements that are way more harmful to health), violence and diseases, which happens just because the illegal status. Take crack for example, cheap and highly addictive. Users are more likely to die from external causes such as homicide or HIV infection than die from overdose [1]. Legalization would greatly reduce deaths caused by external factors and would free the government to actually take care of the addicts as they actually need. On the other hand, antibiotics, which should be controlled tightly, gets overlooked. 1 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462006000300010 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516... Edit: formatting. Edit II: typos. Edit III: pointing out antibiotics getting overlooked.
flukus 8y ago
> What do we do about heroin/opiods that are the real problem today? Cheap, highly addictive. Multiple overdoses today in my local news feed reported.... Well the one thing we shouldn't do is give criminals a lucrative monopoly on the market, which is exactly what criminalization does and creates a whole host of negatives for society.

by readhn 8y ago

readhn 8y ago

"The scale of America’s opioid epidemic is shocking. It is the deadliest drug overdose crisis in US history. In 2016 alone, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War and car crashes, gun violence, and HIV/AIDS ever did in a single year. In total, more than 170 people are estimated to die from overdoses every day in the US, and most of the deaths are linked to opioids."

tghw 8y ago

Legalize cannabis. Opioid deaths have dropped here in Colorado since legalization.

p1mrx 8y ago
Are individuals successfully transitioning from opioids to cannabis, or does legalization primarily affect the ratio of new users?

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draw_down 8y ago

From what I remember, you’d need to smoke something like 3/4 ton of cannabis in a short time to die. So, safe to say you can’t. Which is why you’ve never heard about it happening.

djsumdog 8y ago

Treat addiction as a problem and offer treatment. Oh wait, we don't even have real universal health care. Rehab centers are stupid expensive. In America, only the rich get afford the $2k to $5k up front for the cheap rehab. That's why they end up making so many music videos about it.

Pmop 8y ago

I particularly support legalization to full extent of any recreative psychoactive drugs, even ones deemed evil. Drug users are often more vulnerable to external factors not related to the drug itself, such as bad drug quality (drugs mixed with elements that are way more harmful to health), violence and diseases, which happens just because the illegal status. Take crack for example, cheap and highly addictive. Users are more likely to die from external causes such as homicide or HIV infection than die from overdose [1]. Legalization would greatly reduce deaths caused by external factors and would free the government to actually take care of the addicts as they actually need. On the other hand, antibiotics, which should be controlled tightly, gets overlooked. 1 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462006000300010 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516... Edit: formatting. Edit II: typos. Edit III: pointing out antibiotics getting overlooked.

flukus 8y ago

> What do we do about heroin/opiods that are the real problem today? Cheap, highly addictive. Multiple overdoses today in my local news feed reported.... Well the one thing we shouldn't do is give criminals a lucrative monopoly on the market, which is exactly what criminalization does and creates a whole host of negatives for society.