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> How can you be pro-Marijuana and then not trust doctors to have another tool in their arsenal? It doesn’t cost $55,000 a year to smoke weed, and if nothing e

> How can you be pro-Marijuana and then not trust doctors to have another tool in their arsenal? It doesn’t cost $55,000 a year to smoke weed, and if nothing else weed will get you high. Most people have a problem with Medicare paying for this drug, not people taking the drug itself.

lend000 5y ago
And if someone created a strain and tried to sell it for 55k a year, you would then support the FDA banning it, instead of letting people decide for themselves? You're right about Medicare, though. A socialized healthcare system creates negative incentives (for example, banning things that might be costly, instead of letting the market direct that item to people willing to pay more). I always struggle to relate to many people's infantilism. You aren't a baby, and other adults aren't babies. If people can vote, sign up for the military, etc., then they can make a decision about their own body given accurate information.
- quickthrowman 5y ago
  The FDA does not regulate marijuana strains. If someone wants to pay $55,000 for weed so be it, but socialized medicine shouldn’t pay for treatments with no efficacy.
  - lend000 5y ago
    After accurately describing the problem, would you now say that the real root of the problem is our socialized healthcare system, or having choice in drugs?
    - ivalm 5y ago
      You can sell/buy the drug as supplement without fda approval, it is not banned/on a schedule. So the problem is with the fda approval, not socialized healthcare.
      - heavyset_go 5y ago
        Novel molecules can't be sold as supplements, only compounds found in plants or animals, or those that can be classified as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc. The makers of Aduhelm can't actually turn around and sell it as a supplement if they can't sell it as an approved medication in the US.
- heavyset_go 5y ago
  > And if someone created a strain and tried to sell it for 55k a year, you would then support the FDA banning it, instead of letting people decide for themselves? Are they making medical claims that aren't backed up by evidence?
- tsimionescu 5y ago
  It's not a matter of infantilism. Calling this substance 'medication' when it has not been proven to have any affect at all on any disease is simply fraud. Marketing it as medication will be like marketing homeopathic junk as medicine.

lend000 5y ago

And if someone created a strain and tried to sell it for 55k a year, you would then support the FDA banning it, instead of letting people decide for themselves? You're right about Medicare, though. A socialized healthcare system creates negative incentives (for example, banning things that might be costly, instead of letting the market direct that item to people willing to pay more). I always struggle to relate to many people's infantilism. You aren't a baby, and other adults aren't babies. If people can vote, sign up for the military, etc., then they can make a decision about their own body given accurate information.

quickthrowman 5y ago
The FDA does not regulate marijuana strains. If someone wants to pay $55,000 for weed so be it, but socialized medicine shouldn’t pay for treatments with no efficacy.
- lend000 5y ago
  After accurately describing the problem, would you now say that the real root of the problem is our socialized healthcare system, or having choice in drugs?
  - ivalm 5y ago
    You can sell/buy the drug as supplement without fda approval, it is not banned/on a schedule. So the problem is with the fda approval, not socialized healthcare.
    - heavyset_go 5y ago
      Novel molecules can't be sold as supplements, only compounds found in plants or animals, or those that can be classified as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc. The makers of Aduhelm can't actually turn around and sell it as a supplement if they can't sell it as an approved medication in the US.
heavyset_go 5y ago
> And if someone created a strain and tried to sell it for 55k a year, you would then support the FDA banning it, instead of letting people decide for themselves? Are they making medical claims that aren't backed up by evidence?
tsimionescu 5y ago
It's not a matter of infantilism. Calling this substance 'medication' when it has not been proven to have any affect at all on any disease is simply fraud. Marketing it as medication will be like marketing homeopathic junk as medicine.