Research undermines medical marijuana claims

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As a Paramedic, I have given Ketamine for pain control. Military has used it for several years in the sand wars. It works well. And, for the most part fairly safe. Maybe safer than opioids. Maintains blood pressure and respiratory drive. There is some data that smoking mj is not great for the heart. It seems that some young people are developing blockages of the arteries of the heart. Only history is regular use of mj. So if I had family history of cardiac. I might consider this. Not sure there is enough data to refute or how edibles and oil effect. Also heavy users can develop uncontrollable nausea. I think I will vote yes. There are older folks on pain meds that I think would benefit from its use in some form. Older people on opioids for pain control. Can get constipated which then leads to a host of problems. I have had people that have died on the toilet. From straining so hard they vagaled out the heart. Or they passed out and fell off the toilet. Can raise the ammonia levels and give altered mental status.
 

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I've said it before, but my personal opinion has changed over the past decade. Mostly due to my wife's unexplainable headache. Treatment took us to many places, include the Mayo Clinic and the variety of prescription drugs they rotated her through did some scary things. And few gave her any relief. Everything from hallucinations to emotional instability to just being really high, all the time. From beta blockers to everything short of antipsychotics, she probably tried it. One anti-seizure (i believe it was) drug had her pretty high most of the time, but had the odd side effect of making the thought of food unappetizing to the point of nausea. She lost nearly 30lbs while on it, which wasn't a healthy thing.

At one point a MD (with hospital privileges and all) in Tennessee prescribed the pill form of MJ. It didn't really help much either and came with it's own issues. The pill is designed so that you can't really cut it in half, so you can't easily take a smaller dosage. But if it was regular MJ, she could have...

Anyway, the only thing that has really given her much relief is alcohol.

Now, the other side of all of this is that when our son was born, his birth mother was addicted to opioids. Her addiction started, in part, when a doctor prescribed them to her.

If you've never seen an infant detox, well, it's something that is almost beyond words.

Yes, there will be issues, but we have those already. But i'll never go back to believing that a drug must be better simply because it comes from a pharmacy.
 

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Exclusive: Traffic fatalities linked to marijuana are ... - The Denver Post
https://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/25/colorado-marijuana-traffic-fatalities/
Aug 25, 2017 - The number of drivers involved in fatal crashes in Colorado testing positive formarijuana use has risen sharply every year since 2013, more ...

As Colorado auto deaths involving marijuana rise, CDOT is asking ...
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/25/colorado-auto-deaths-marijuana-use/
Mar 25, 2018 - The number of marijuana-related automobile fatalities in Colorado, as measured by the drug's chief psychoactive ingredient, hit 77 in 2016, the ...

Pot-Related Driving Deaths Rose After Colorado Legalized Marijuana
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19538240/marijuana-and-traffic-deaths-colorado/
Oct 12, 2017 - Since Colorado legalized marijuana in 2013, the number of crashes that ... pot-relateddriving deaths have spiked in Colorado since the state ...
 

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Exclusive: Traffic fatalities linked to marijuana are ... - The Denver Post
https://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/25/colorado-marijuana-traffic-fatalities/
Aug 25, 2017 - The number of drivers involved in fatal crashes in Colorado testing positive formarijuana use has risen sharply every year since 2013, more ...

As Colorado auto deaths involving marijuana rise, CDOT is asking ...
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/25/colorado-auto-deaths-marijuana-use/
Mar 25, 2018 - The number of marijuana-related automobile fatalities in Colorado, as measured by the drug's chief psychoactive ingredient, hit 77 in 2016, the ...

Pot-Related Driving Deaths Rose After Colorado Legalized Marijuana
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19538240/marijuana-and-traffic-deaths-colorado/
Oct 12, 2017 - Since Colorado legalized marijuana in 2013, the number of crashes that ... pot-relateddriving deaths have spiked in Colorado since the state ...
Thats all complete lies. The CO DPS stats show just the opposite.
 

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