Elizabeth Warren asks CDC to consider legal marijuana as alternative painkiller
Source: Guardian
Elizabeth Warren asks CDC to consider legal marijuana as alternative painkiller
The Massachusetts senator called for more research to be done on medical marijuana and prescription opioid addiction amid abuse and overdose epidemic
Amanda Holpuch in New York
@holpuch
Friday 12 February 2016 08.00 EST
Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to consider the role legal marijuana could play in the prescription opioid epidemic.
Warren asked for more research into medical marijuana and painkiller addiction in a letter to the CDC director, Thomas Friedan.
Opioid abuse is a national concern and warrants swift and immediate action, Warren wrote.
Her request comes as politicians, including the presidential nominees, search for the best response to the opioid epidemic.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/12/elizabeth-warren-medical-marijuana-painkiller-opioid-abuse
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)nichomachus
(12,754 posts)We probably couldn't get it past Congress.
Maybe we just shouldn't try.
We can't be dreamers.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Big Pharma lobby. She has the nerve to say that the medicinal use of marijuana needs more study. I dare her to tell that to those suffering chronic pain.
And some say H. Clinton is progressive. Certainly not on the issue of marijuana use.
madokie
(51,076 posts)In my case but I can't use pot as its illegal here and if I test positive there goes my meds.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)I'm a cancer survivor and did not try it for the pain of having a tumor or after surgery. I was given opioids for that and luckily did not get hooked.
MMJ is legal in my state. The dispensaries started out with pot that was around 14% THC tops, and they only had flowers. Now there are loaded vapes, medibles, capsules, lollipops, breath mints, wax concentrates, you name it. And now some of the capsules have a THC concentration of 200 mg. each capsule. That's a LOT and I'll bet it really helps with pain. (I can only stand about 15 mg. myself at a time).
shanti
(21,675 posts)TG we have MM here in cali; can't wait to vote for full legalization this year!
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)listed on the NASDAQ.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)(read give her money) to keep the laws "tough". She is the "tough" candidate.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Just say NO!!!!!!
jomin41
(559 posts)WILLFUL IGNORANCE. Absolutely shameful and mindless of the immense damage that prohibition has done and is still doing. This calls her fundamental honesty and integrity into question.
The Wizard
(12,547 posts)taking bribes from big Pharma and private prisons want to kill the golden egg laying goose. Superstition and greed, perfect together.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)No Big Pharma there
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)FDA regulates drugs, not the CDC.