Then why does the US government hold the patent on the medical use of pot?
Answer below
https://www.**********.com/2016/08/28/what-is-marijuana-patent-6630507/

As to working on cancer, as I have stated before, my sister is living proof, fact is, before she started the oil, she was given less than 6 months to live, weighed less than 80lbs and when she told us at Christmas, she didn't look like she would make it to New Years eve.

A friend of mine, who suffers panacea as well, has been in constant pain, had been on opioids, doctor prescribed. He got his pot card, and got off the opioids without any problems, and is feeling much better.
Real world results.

Because they're people.

Well said Noah.

Too many people suffering from chronic pain due to accidents, injuries or surgeries gone wrong have become addicted to opioids which have been cut off. Having no recourse they are forced to go to illegal substances for relief and end up getting in trouble. The real crime is that the company which pushed OxyContin lied to their sales reps that their drug was far less addictive then other opioids.

I would love to see the CEO, and executive mangment placed in a huge cell for the rest of their miserable lives surrounded by the thousands of corpses they helped create.

There are plenty of.people who don't have chronic (physical) pain, who are druggies as well. But they're still brothers and sisters and sons and daughters and parents. We try to save them because they're still valued as human beings, even if they might not even think so of themselves.

...and because we're people, regular people, and they are our family and friends...for far too many of us. Sometimes you win....

OK, I can understand that, but why do I have to pay for thier intervention, and why aren't they charged (criminally, and monetarily) for other people's efforts ?

Free NARCAN for anyone who wants it from the governemnt ? Someone has to pay the $140 for a kit (2 doses) !

Which is another example of big pharma ripping people off. This drug was patented in 1961 and costs less than $1 a dose to manufacture. No profit in that, so "kits" were developed.

^^^^ Wow! - I did not know that^^^^^^

Now ya know :(....

I’m having my right foot operated on tomorrow. Had surgery on my left foot a year ago and again in October. The first time I was given Norco and told to start taking them right away even if you don’t hurt - get ahead of the pain they said. Due to the side effects I told them not to bother to give me any after the second surgery. The doc gave me Tramadol anyway. Never touched it. It’ll be the same story tomorrow.
Docs are used to people who are terrified of pain, so their approach is, “Take this so you’ll never have pain.” Instead of “Take this only if the pain keeps you awake.”
Just my 2 cents worth.

Last surgery I had, the nurse kept wanting me to take IV morphine.
"I'm okay"...
"I'm okay.... I really don't like morphine"
"I'm fine"
Finally, I told her, "I'm okay, but if it will make YOU feel better, then go ahead and hit the drip."

So she did.
Didn't kill the pain at all, just made me feel loopy, and I was not complaining of the pain. The subsequent double billing of insurance and having to straighten that out was what caused me the most pain.

Next time I will tell her I don't want any due to my religious preference. That should work.

There is a generic that costs far less.

Good luck getting a bottle of nickle a piece Colchicine, it is all about the couple of bucks per for Colcryst

That is how narcotics work. Not so much it doesn't hurt, you just don't care about it as much.

That's off by a fair bit. The spectrum on which people experience pain is wide and people writing scripts don't have a crystal ball. Getting calls from the ED for post-op patients in uncontrolled pain is unsatisfying for everyone involved. People need a starting point for instructions. Take a walk through a hospital or big-box and let us know what percentage of those folks you think capable of successfully free-styling anything much less pain meds.

I know. That's why I originally told her no. I just got tired of getting hassled!:D

Here is a read on drug pricing. I have read similar reports so I think this hits pretry close to the truth


https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/26/why-prescription-drug-prices-have-skyrocketed/?utm_term=.f08ef2a876bb

....Here is how our current system works. It starts with a structure that looks healthy on the surface. Health plans pay their PBMs based on the extent of the discount that a PBM can negotiate with individual drug companies. In theory, this should encourage the PBM to drive prices down. After all, entities should bargain hard when their pay is tied to how much of a discount they can negotiate.

The problem? Drug companies raised their prices so they could give a greater discount. This increases how much of a “discount” the PBM can claim to have negotiated, and the payout to the PBM. It is a little like a department store raising prices right before a sale so the sale discount looks more appealing.

All of this might not be so bad if no one paid the high list price. But many people do. Many plans make patients pay full drug costs until they meet their deductible, and other plans require coinsurance — both of which are based on the list price. Many people still do not have coverage for prescription drugs, even if they have health insurance. Thus, people are forced to pay the full price at various times. Worse yet, the entire structure encourages drug companies to compete not by cutting prices but by offering higher prices...

...When the FDA approved a new drug in the dry-eye market, the company offered a plan in which attractive deals in the glaucoma market would be available for those who also gave favorable treatment to the company’s dry-eye medication. According to one Medicare plan administrator quoted in the complaint, given Allergan’s bundling scheme, a competitor could give the new drug away free and the numbers still wouldn’t work.

What does all of this mean? Patents and exclusivities are intended to incentivize innovation in the drug industry, providing a time-limited monopoly to recoup costs followed by vigorous competition to bring the price down to competitive levels. Instead, drug companies are manipulating the system, often recycling and repurposing drugs rather than inventing new ones. In fact, 78 percent of the drugs associated with new patents were not new drugs coming on the market but existing ones. The cycle of innovation, reward, then competition is being distorted into a system of innovation, reward, then more reward....

...At the end of the day, drug companies are able to use financial incentives to ensure that as lower-priced alternatives enter the market, they cannot gain much of a foothold. The companies have simply found a way to operate within the system to their own greatest advantage. Can one really expect anything different from profit-making enterprises?...

What is 'panacea'....???

When I was recovering from hip replacement surgery I was hooked up to the "dial a smile" morphine pump. If the pain was high, I pushed the button. It would only pump if it had been long enough since the last pump. It did relieve pain and let me sleep. But damn did it cause constipation. If I ever get another hookup to a dial a smile, I will be demanding laxatives on a constant basis.

Great article, looks like some think the spike in deaths is a result of adding in deaths from over the counter drug abuses into the tally- intentional or not.

Who Is Telling The Truth About Prescription Opioid Deaths? DEA? CDC? Neither?
By Josh Bloom — November 5, 2018
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/11/05/who-telling-truth-about-prescription-opioid-deaths-dea-cdc-neither-13569
https://www.acsh.org/sites/default/f...38.45%20PM.jpg
Reminds me of another topic.

Modern vs. Vintage: Horsepower through the years
https://www.autoblog.com/2013/08/15/modern-vs-vintage-horsepower-through-the-years/
Back on topic, an earlier Josh Bloom article on the subject.


The Opioid Epidemic in 6 Charts Designed To Deceive You
By Josh Bloom — October 12, 2017
https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/10/12/opioid-epidemic-6-charts-designed-deceive-you-11935
The first reader comment from the link above.

an appropriate word for this topic. that's for sure!