Current Events > Legal marijuana sharply reduces opioid deaths

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecin.12819

This study documents how the changing legal status of marijuana has impacted mortality in the United States over the past two decades. We use a differenceindifference approach to estimate the effect of medical marijuana laws (MML) and recreational marijuana laws (RML) on fatalities from opioid overdoses, and we find that marijuana access induces sharp reductions in opioid mortality rates. Our research corroborates prior findings on MMLs and offers the first causal estimates of RML impacts on opioid mortality to date, the latter of which is particularly important given that RMLs are far more expansive in scope and reach than MMLs. In our preferred econometric specification, we estimate that RMLs reduce annual opioid mortality in the range of 20%35%, with particularly pronounced effects for synthetic opioids. In further analysis, we demonstrate how RML impacts vary among demographic groups, shedding light on the distributional consequences of these laws. Our findings are especially important and timely given the scale of the opioid crisis in the United States and simultaneously evolving attitudes and regulations on marijuana use.
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imagine hating weed
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Yeah but idiots who wanted it illegal years ago said it makes you do other drugs, so banned forever!!!!!!

Love that my state was one of the first to join the 21st century.
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what does it mean

do they give marijuana to someone overdosed with opioid and it saves their lives ?
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Ah, so this is why politicians are still pretending theres even an argument against legalization.
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BLAKUboy posted...

Ah, so this is why politicians are still pretending theres even an argument against legalization.

as far as i know a way to know there arent any reliable tests for DUI

thats a good one
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marc55 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Ah, so this is why politicians are still pretending theres even an argument against legalization.

as far as i know a way to know there arent any reliable tests for DUI

thats a good one

lol, not its not.
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in Amsterdam they legalized heroin and deaths, crime, and usage went down.
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I do both. They make me drop for being prescribed opioids tho. It's dumb. Alcohol is the dangerous thing to mix, not fuckin weed.
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Hanky_Bannister posted...

marc55 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Ah, so this is why politicians are still pretending theres even an argument against legalization.

as far as i know a way to know there arent any reliable tests for DUI

thats a good one

lol, not its not.

I don't want you baked and driving no more than you want to me drunk and driving. But as we can see with alcohol, lots of people aren't responsible with their recreation drugs.
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thanosibe posted...

Hanky_Bannister posted...

marc55 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Ah, so this is why politicians are still pretending theres even an argument against legalization.

as far as i know a way to know there arent any reliable tests for DUI

thats a good one

lol, not its not.

I don't want you baked and driving no more than you want to me drunk and driving. But as we can see with alcohol, lots of people aren't responsible with their recreation drugs.

Actually, I much prefer that you were high and driving than drunk. Numerous studies have shown that being high while driving no where near impairs your ability to drive as much as alcohol does. In a regular user the level of "impairment" is negligible.
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Hanky_Bannister posted...

marc55 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Ah, so this is why politicians are still pretending theres even an argument against legalization.

as far as i know a way to know there arent any reliable tests for DUI

thats a good one

lol, not its not.

if the fact that there is no way to know how muh is too much and could cause accidents or deaths is that fun to you then something must really wrong with you
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Nobody should be operating machinery or a vehicle under the influence of anything

Everyones body reacts differently to these substances
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marc55 posted...

Hanky_Bannister posted...

marc55 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Ah, so this is why politicians are still pretending theres even an argument against legalization.

as far as i know a way to know there arent any reliable tests for DUI

thats a good one

lol, not its not.

if the fact that there is no way to know how muh is too much and could cause accidents or deaths is that fun to you then something must really wrong with you

*eye roll*
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marc55 posted...

what does it mean

do they give marijuana to someone overdosed with opioid and it saves their lives ?

Marijuana can be used as pain relief for some, so that marijuana can be used instead of opioids.

Opioids are probably the worst group of drugs out there. Heroin and fentanyl are in there along with prescriptions like Oxycotin.
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We need to stop sugar coating this shit and just call "opiods" what they are: Heroin. Just because you're shaking it from an amber vial instead of cooking it in a blackened spoon doesn't change the active ingredient. "Opiods" only exist because piece of shit pharmaceutical executives saw how addictive and profitable heroin was and wanted a piece.
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MasterGakke posted...

We need to stop sugar coating this shit and just call "opiods" what they are: Heroin. Just because you're shaking it from an amber vial instead of cooking it in a blackened spoon doesn't change the active ingredient. "Opiods" only exist because piece of shit pharmaceutical executives saw how addictive and profitable heroin was and wanted a piece.

And caffeine is cocaine
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MasterGakke posted...

We need to stop sugar coating this shit and just call "opiods" what they are: Heroin. Just because you're shaking it from an amber vial instead of cooking it in a blackened spoon doesn't change the active ingredient. "Opiods" only exist because piece of shit pharmaceutical executives saw how addictive and profitable heroin was and wanted a piece.

Opioids*

Also opioid receptor is literally the name of the receptor opioid drugs react with in the body. They provide pain relief. Just because heroin is one of the biggest and most abused doesnt mean you should change the name of the group.
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MuayThai85 posted...

thanosibe posted...

Hanky_Bannister posted...

marc55 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Ah, so this is why politicians are still pretending theres even an argument against legalization.

as far as i know a way to know there arent any reliable tests for DUI

thats a good one

lol, not its not.

I don't want you baked and driving no more than you want to me drunk and driving. But as we can see with alcohol, lots of people aren't responsible with their recreation drugs.

Actually, I much prefer that you were high and driving than drunk. Numerous studies have shown that being high while driving no where near impairs your ability to drive as much as alcohol does. In a regular user the level of "impairment" is negligible.

This isn't true at all. A study released last year found that every state that has "legalized" weed has had an increase in car crashes. That is hardly "negligible" as you claim.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/health/marijuana-driving-accidents-bn/index.html
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Gamerguymass posted...

MuayThai85 posted...

thanosibe posted...

Hanky_Bannister posted...

marc55 posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Ah, so this is why politicians are still pretending theres even an argument against legalization.

as far as i know a way to know there arent any reliable tests for DUI

thats a good one

lol, not its not.

I don't want you baked and driving no more than you want to me drunk and driving. But as we can see with alcohol, lots of people aren't responsible with their recreation drugs.

Actually, I much prefer that you were high and driving than drunk. Numerous studies have shown that being high while driving no where near impairs your ability to drive as much as alcohol does. In a regular user the level of "impairment" is negligible.

This isn't true at all. A study released last year found that every state that has "legalized" weed has had an increase in car crashes. That is hardly "negligible" as you claim.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/health/marijuana-driving-accidents-bn/index.html

These kinds of false claims are mostly made because people dont want to be responsible with their preferred recreational drug. And pot users seem to be the worst with it.

Yeah drunk driving is bad. But lol at being high and driving negligible.
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