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DEA allowed 1200% increase in Oxycontin manufacturing during medical marijuana era
When I was in Orlando, the college kids of University of Central Florida told me about the “pill mill” epidemic referred to in this report. The way they described it, it sounded like the image our opponents paint of medical marijuana in California. ”Yeah, you can go to a shady little fake clinic,” one young man told me, “complain about pain, get a script from a shady doc, and get yourself 500 OxyContin pills, no problem.” Another told me of a friend of his who gets the OxyContin to sell so he can buy the ridiculously overpriced marijuana in Florida.
California appeals court affirms judge’s right to make patient choose between medical marijuana and prison
(San Francisco Chronicle) A judge who wanted a gun-toting youth to clean up his act was acting within his power by forbidding him to use the medical marijuana he took for migraine headaches as part of a probation sentence that kept him out of prison, a state appeals court in San Francisco has ruled. The [...]
California State Athletic Commission rules against medical marijuana
CSAC POSITION ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA The California State Athletic Commission’s position is that Marijuana is a banned substance pursuant to Rule 303 and that any positive drug test may result in discipline. The California Supreme Court has weighed in on “Medical Marijuana” in the employment context and has found that an employer may discipline an [...]
Dr. Johnny C. Benjamin: Steroids are Just the Tip of the Iceberg in Professional Sports
The overuse and abuse of narcotic pain medication in professional sports, especially contact sports, is enormous. The use of performance enhancing drugs is minuscule and almost meaningless in comparison. It is a well-known mantra in the NFL that a player can’t make the team from the training room (nursing an injury instead of producing on [...]
Americans’ use of psychotropic prescription drugs more than doubled in a decade
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Many more Americans have been using prescription drugs to treat mental illness since 1996, in part because of expanded insurance coverage and greater familiarity with the drugs among primary care doctors, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Really? It wouldn’t have anything to do with the ubiquitous “ask your prescriber about new prescription [...]
Baptist Press: Medical Marijuana is “Legalizing marijuana incrementally”
Aw, you write that like it is a bad thing… WASHINGTON (BP)–The decision by the Obama administration to surrender to bad state policies on so-called medicinal marijuana will have disastrous effects. Medicinal marijuana is the Trojan horse of the marijuana decriminalization movement. The movement sees it as the means to appeal to people’s compassion in [...]
UN agency recommends world stop ‘trivializing’ marijuana dangers
VIENNA (AFP) – A UN drugs agency warned Thursday against underestimating the dangers of cannabis. “The international community may wish to review the issue of cannabis,” the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) wrote in its annual report. “Over the years, cannabis has become more potent and is associated with an increasing number of emergency room [...]
Dead athletes’ brains show damage from concussions
Using tissue from retired NFL athletes culled posthumously, the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), at the Boston University School of Medicine, is shedding light on what concussions look like in the brain. The findings are stunning. Far from innocuous, invisible injuries, concussions confer tremendous brain damage. That damage has a name: chronic [...]
Who wants to be picked No. 1? Tough draft to figure out – USATODAY.com
I’m a huge NFL Football fan, so I’m always picking up on how the league treats its cannabis-using players. We’ve followed the stories of Ricky Williams and Michael Vick and Mark Stepnoski and others, and I’m always left wondering how the league can be so tolerant of so many opioid and narcotic painkillers used by [...]
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