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Surely I'm not the only person for who cannabis just makes pain far worse. In fact I know I'm not I've heard it from other people. Opiates are spooky, but ... they work really well.
At my worst point after switching to medical cannabis, the worst i have had is a groggy day.
Opiates work well, too well i would say.
Yay. Recreational marijauna user here and opioids scare the crap out of me. Had to take 10 oxycodone after a surgery and if they can hand those out they can hand out marijauna capsules or whatever. It's really that simple.
Are opioids really making that much money? Most of what is prescribed are generics and they're not expensive.
> Court filings show the [Sackler] family took in $10 billion in profits from OxyContin...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/health/opioids-pharmacy-c...
> From 2006 through 2014, the Rite Aid in Painesville, Ohio, a town with a population of 19,524, sold over 4.2 million doses of oxycodone and hydrocodone. The national retailer offered bonuses to stores with the highest productivity.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/judge-says-pharmacies-o...
> Roughly 80 million prescription painkillers were dispensed in Trumbull County alone between 2012 and 2016 — equivalent to 400 for every resident. In Lake County, some 61 million pills were distributed during that period.
It's clearly quite profitable.
Yay. Recreational marijauna user here and opioids scare the crap out of me. Had to take 10 oxycodone after a surgery and if they can hand those out they can hand out marijauna capsules or whatever. It's really that simple.
They gave me opiods after an invasive surgery that had me on crutches for a month. That stuff was strong enough that I could not safely crutch to the bathroom, I was too dizzy. Switched to low dose edibles and had no problem falling asleep, they didn't make it impossible to get to the bathroom safely, and I didn't have to worry about addiction.
After that, I took over the counter painkillers and just kind of dealt with the pain, as it was better than feeling all wobbly and dizzy.
And they suppress opiates. And promote weed.
And the dispensaries are all owned by the usual billionaires. That includes our governor.
Weed legalization is a cash-channeling strategy.
Yay. Recreational marijauna user here and opioids scare the crap out of me. Had to take 10 oxycodone after a surgery and if they can hand those out they can hand out marijauna capsules or whatever. It's really that simple.
It's still crazy to me that I was just given hydros when I got my wisdom teeth out at 18. I didn't even need them, I was barely sore.
In my opinion, giving somebody pills who doesn't need them (what used to be the norm) isn't great but the vast majority of people don't suddenly become junkies. Most people are perfectly fine. You yourself is evidence of this.
But not giving somebody pills who does need them (which is now the norm) is literal torture, and the practice disgusts me. I'm really glad you were fine, but not everybody is so lucky, and the number of people who say as you do but also have the power to enforce their views on everyone else have literally been responsible for torturing others. The only thing worse than sitting in pain and misery is knowing that the means to relieve some of that pain is readily available, but some person decided you shouldn't have them so you get to suffer.
States where marijuana is legal have lower incidence of opioid use.
Yay. Recreational marijauna user here and opioids scare the crap out of me. Had to take 10 oxycodone after a surgery and if they can hand those out they can hand out marijauna capsules or whatever. It's really that simple.
Surely I'm not the only person for who cannabis just makes pain far worse. In fact I know I'm not I've heard it from other people. Opiates are spooky, but ... they work really well.