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Title: Study Proves Legal Marijuana Is Literally Saving Lives
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Counter Current News
URL Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2016/03/study-legal-saving-lives/
Published: Mar 23, 2016
Author: John Vibes - TrueActivist.com.
Post Date: 2016-03-24 12:52:19 by Deckard
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Views: 1011
Comments: 7
A study by the Journal of the American Medical Association has indicated that legalized marijuana in certain areas coincided with a drastic reduction in painkiller deaths. According to the study, between 1999 and 2010, within the 13 states that legalized marijuana, there was a 25% reduction in opiate painkiller overdose deaths.
Study co-author Colleen Barry said that this same trend occurred in every state to legalize the plant since.
A new survey conducted by the Centre for Addictions Research of BC helps explain why Big Pharma is so afraid of cannabis. The pharmaceutical and alcohol industries, both powerful influences in Washington, have long lobbied against cannabis legalization in order to protect their profits.
However, the tide has turned as decriminalization of medical and recreational cannabis sweeps the nation and the continent. With legalization, more and more people are discovering how this plant can provide a safe alternative to the dangerous effects of prescription pills.+
The survey of 473 adult therapeutic cannabis users found that 87% of respondents gave up prescription medications, alcohol, or other drugs in favor of cannabis. Adults under 40 were likely to give up all three of these for medical cannabis.
Legalization has proved many other myths of the drug war wrong.
According to statistics released by the government in Denver, the number of robberies and violent crimes significantly decreased since marijuana legalization went into effect.
It is important to mention that this strong correlation is not definitive proof that legalization is the cause of this drop in crime, but it does strongly suggest that this is the case.
These statistics are especially convincing considering the short amount of time that this drastic reduction in crime has taken place. In just one short year, the number of homicides dropped by 52.9%.
Sexual assaults were reduced by 13.6%.
Robberies were down by 4.8%, and assaults were down by 3.7%.
The statistics measured the first few months of the year for both 2013 and 2014 and then compared those numbers with one another to determine whether they were higher or lower after legalization went into effect.
Also, according to a recent study on marijuana legalization, use among teens has actually dropped in states where the herb is no longer prohibited. The study took data from over 1 million teens from various states, over the course of 24 years.
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Study Proves Legal Marijuana Is Literally Saving Lives
It certainly hasn't done much to save the death of your obsessive brain.
#2. To: rlk (#1)
How many people have you killed with your pseudo-scientific bullshit and your prescribing deadly meds to your patients?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts#3. To: Deckard (#2)
How many people have you killed with your pseudo-scientific bullshit and your prescribing deadly meds to your patients?
None!
#4. To: rlk (#3)
Anyone who "claims" to be a psychologist and cannot see the immense medical benefits of cannabis is quite simply, a quack.
Keep pushin' that poison, headshrinker.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts#5. To: Deckard (#0)
...Journal of the American Medical Association...
A study like this is much harder to dismiss if it appears in the AMA's house journal. It's not like it was the cover story in an issue of High Times.
Not to kill anyone's buzz by reciting facts but it is hard to believe that High Times, started as just a spoof of Playboy, has persisted for 42 years as a monthly and now has its own extensive YouTube channel.
#6. To: Deckard (#2)
Study Proves Legal Marijuana Is Literally Saving Lives
Saving more than the oncologists with their cut, burn and poison routine. Nixon declared that cancer would be cured by 1976. Billions of dollars and several years later not much to show for it except rich drug companies and doctors.
#7. To: Deckard (#2)
pseudo-scientific bullshit and your prescribing deadly meds to your patients?
AMEN to you. It is about time these greedy doctors, hospitals, and drug companies are took to task over their satanic pills, drugs and treatments. The government and the media are nothing but lap dogs for them. I am sick and tired of being bombarded by prescription drug ads on television. They should not be allowed to advertise prescription drugs direct to the public. It is absolutely ignorant to advertise these drugs to the public so the patient can tell the doctor what he needs.
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