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The United States is facing an absolutely devastating opioid crisis.
As of September 2017, more than 2 million Americans are dependent on prescription pain pills like opiates, according to CNN.
The number of opioid-related deaths rose 75%, from roughly 20,000 in 2010 to 35,000 in 2015. That means opioid-based drugs kill more than 100 Americans every day.
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But chronic pain isn't going to magically disappear, so something will have to take opioids' place.
That's where medical marijuana comes in.
And one medical marijuana company in particular is leading the pack.
In fact, this cannabis biotech has a revolutionary new drug coming to market soon that could be the life-saving answer for the over 25.3 million Americans suffering from pain today.
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This is unhealthy BS. Marijuana medical or otherwise will not replace opioids. This is a pipe (pardon the expression) dream. You will never sell this idea to the people who matter, the addicts, because they have common sense. Whatever your misguided motive is for floating this idea, it will not help anybody. The addicts need the truth about what works or doesn't to be able to heal. What precisely are you selling?
Stuart F. Folick, M.D.
Dr Folick,
How many Rx have you written for Medical Marijuana? A survey of Doctors in the 29 states which already have legal Med MJ surprised everyone. The reduction of Rx for opiods, anxiety,depression,Parkinson's tremors, seizures, inflamation, epilepsy, arthritis pain, fibromyalgia, autism, chemo nausea, etc was in the 100's of thousands. More research is needed to find all the uses of marijuana.
medical marijuana only alleviates certain types of pain and not all of the pain. eg. it does little for the burning pain of R.S.D. Syndrome (feels as if your legs/arms or both have been engulfed or encased in flowing red-hot molten lava. They feel as if they are burning off and you truly wish they would, so the burning would stop. If you cannot control this pain then it can destroy or halt anything you have no control of eg….Anytime after 2 years any or all of your organs, (hear, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas, etc…). It can lock up any or all your joints for more than a dozen years at a time. There is no magical elixir that will fix everything.