Marijuana is saving peoples lives, yet the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors cant decide if its medicine or not, and the government still chooses to label it a Schedule I drug. In states with a medical marijuana law, overdose deaths from opioids like morphine, oxycodone and heroin decreased by an average of 20 percent after one year, 25 percent by two years and up to 33 percent by years five and six compared to what would have been expected, according to results in JAMA Internal Medicine. Meanwhile, opioid overdose deaths across the country increased dramatically, from 4,030 in 1999 to 16,651 in 2010 And in regards to controlling opioid deaths: “Everything we’re doing is having no effect, except for in the states that have implemented medical marijuana laws,” Hayes said.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:36:40 +0000
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