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The thinking goes that cocaine has use as a medicine for end of life care (milk of the poppy and all that). I worked with a guy who used to be a pharmacist that
by wincy 6y ago
The thinking goes that cocaine has use as a medicine for end of life care (milk of the poppy and all that). I worked with a guy who used to be a pharmacist that would mix it for end of life patients. They got raided by the DEA once, despite being above board and not breaking any laws.
Marijuana is seen as having no medically accepted use, therefore it’s more illegal than cocaine.
This just happens to work out for those with more money who are more likely to do cocaine than they are schedule 1 drugs like marijuana and crack (which is basically refined cocaine)
- nerdponx 6y agoMarijuana is seen as having no medically accepted use, therefore it’s more illegal than cocaine. Except at this point it's obvious to even the most arrogant "evidence-based" medicine advocate that marijuana is indeed medically useful, and moreover that it is neither highly addicting nor dangerous, and that Schedule 1 classification for it makes absolutely no medical or legal sense.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> The thinking goes that cocaine has use as a medicine for end of life care (milk of the poppy and all that). “Milk of the poppy” is obviously a stand-in for opiates (derived from the opium poppy), not cocaine. But, yes, There is a history of cocaine being used with opiates as a pain treatment, especially in end-of-life cases. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_cocktail https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_cocktail
- wincy 6y agoOh yeah my bad, mixed up my drug plants, thanks!