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One striking chart shows why pharma companies are fighting legal marijuana
There's a body of research showing that painkiller abuse and overdose are lower in states with medical marijuana laws. These studies have generally assumed that when medical marijuana is available, pain patients are increasingly choosing pot over powerful and deadly prescription narcotics. But that's always been just an assumption.
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So the problem is corporate greed and government corruption, right? This is getting old, I could write the same comment in 95% of the news I see and it would be correct.
So very true.
I can't make my own opiates, but I can grow my own weed. That concept scares the shit out of pharmaceutical companies.