New Illinois Law Allows Doctors To Switch Opioid Prescriptions For Medical Marijuana
A recently-passed law in the state of Illinois is going to give doctors in the state the freedom needed to switch patients from opioid painkillers to medical …
Good news except for firefighters. We aren't allowed to. We risk our lives for strangers, but are not allowed to treat our pain, depression, and anxiety with marijuana. How?
Leftists are mentally ill
Purdue pharmaceuticals your legal heroin dealers hate hear this.
Do all those people know they will NOT be able to practice their 2nd amendment right once they get their medical marijuana cards?
great, switch one addiction with another. No problem, idiots.
Big pharma wants you to have opioids so you can get addicted and they can profit as U medicate to get off the addiction
about damn time this starts happening
Why are Americans so dependant on painkillers? I really don't get it. Are they so unhealthy they need to suppress pain on a regular basis?
Love it.
Working out why there is an opioid epidemic is easy. Anyone who lives in a country with no universal healthcare, mass shootings, no living wage, poisoned water and air etc etc….you'd want to live on another plain.
I for one would like to see us get to a point where we can phase out opioid prescription painkillers altogether.
Now to outlaw Tobacco.
My instincts are drawn to green, organic things, filled with variety, color and texture coming from the heart of nature. I don't trust things fabricated by greed coming from the ego of man.
Just truth be told it's for whites only because they realize who's being infected by the pain pills problem and it's most definitely not blacks because of it was we wouldn't hear about it ijs
This had nothing to do with Opioid deaths. It was about gun control. Understand that once you get that medical marijuana card it MUST be reported to government and you cannot own a firearm, it is against federal law. It is another way to disarm the public using sneaky tactics. If they truly gave a damn about Opioid deaths they would not be raising health insurance cost and treatment centers would be everywhere for free. Don’t believe the lies. Check for yourself. See what new gun laws follow and how many people go to jail and not to treatment centers. People have been smoking weed for years, if they wanted it they don’t need a prescription. And It’s already legal in the state “as he said” so what the hell do they need a prescription for? Think people.
ALL drugs should be legalized for everyone. It is a PERSONAL CHOICE – NOBODY ELSE'S BUSINESS – how much opioid painkiller or marijuana someone takes.
Yeah, here is the BIG Problem.. The INSURANCE Companies will NOT Pay for the Prescriptions, so they are making out like a BANDIT! This is a total Windfall for the Insurance companies.. It is not fair to people getting the prescriptions, like me..
WIN!!!!!!!!!!
Finally..i can get out of pain
They are doing it cuz they just made a new marijuana pill. They want to tap into the marijuana market
Someone needs to teach me about marijuana because it's medically legal here and it actually INCREASED my pain from my chronic muscle spasm.. I hear others say it stopped theirs.. I think it hates me 😣 I heard that it could be a different strain that I should use but idk…
What a great idea! Farron my brother, you said a HUGH mouth full of truth, THANK YOU… Now if we can get you to examine "legalization" versus de-criminalization so that we don't turn something so positive into yet ANOTHER revenue stream for the "fat cats" to fight over!
Way to go Illinois
Sweet about time a state addresses the way medical cannabis can get people down on opoids or compleatly off opoids i am one who took my life back and quit the pills for medical cannabis never look back at the ugly of opoids
love weed 🔥🔥🌿🌿🌈🌈😭☺
This certainly could not hurt. No one ever ODed on marijuana.
GO GREEN ALL THE WAY!!! 🌿🚬💨
yay from central Illinois
"Medical marijuana" doesn't exist. Neither does "recreational marijuana".
It's one plant. It's name is CANNABIS.
Good to hear though.
WE NEED ACCESS TO THE WHOLE PLANT SO WE CAN LIVE WHOLE LIVES!! ALL WE WANT IS TO LIVE WITHOUT NEEDLESSLY SUFFERING DOING IT!! MANY ARE STILL NEEDLESSLY SUFFERING FOR NO OTHER REASONS THAN THE GREED AND CORRUPTION OF CRIMINAL POLITICIANS AND THEIR RICH BRIBERS THINKING IT MORE IMPORTANT TO GET RICHER THEN IT IS TO END THE NEEDLESS SUFFERING OF FAR TOO MANY!! #MakeCannabisLawful
Opium should be legalized. I could go for a tug on some black tar about now!
Big Pharma feels Ill and annoyed.
This is good news. A step in the right direction.
The opioids are free (paid by insurance).. Is the medical marijuana free? Paid for by insurance? If not, the program is silly not solid.
People suffering real pain dont care what they get prescribed..so long as get a life pain free…but those fuking junkies are making real pain management impossible..
More White privilege…How did they curve crack cocaine in the BLACK cities?!? With a prison sentence.. Where is their joint at?!!
And still you get fired for not passing a drug test because it’s still illegal in the federal government
A new rehab facility opening in West Los Angeles promises to treat drug addiction in a new and exciting way: by giving addicts drugs.
High Sobriety bills itself as "cannabis inclusive treatment" and stands in direct contrast to most treatment centers, which preach complete abstinence from mind-altering substances, including alcohol and marijuana. According to its website, High Sobriety uses marijuana to help patients detox from drugs and alcohol, and also as part of the center's continuing care:
At High Sobriety, our first and foremost goal is to eliminate the risk of death from drug use. Cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, pharmaceuticals and other street drugs all have a lethal dose. Leading the death toll, killing more than all others combined, is alcohol. Cannabis has no known lethal dose. The simple truth is eliminating drugs with a lethal dose and using a drug with no lethal dose is a massive improvement, life improving, and life saving. For generations we have been told that cannabis is a “gateway” drug, at High Sobriety, we believe it is an exit drug.
But there's no evidence that it works…. unless of course you listen to a Neurosurgeon who knows wtf he is talking about.
Editor's Note: (Watch Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta's CNN Special Report "Weed 4: Pot vs. Pills" on Sunday, April 29, at 8 p.m. ET.)
(CNN) Dear Honorable Jeff Sessions,
I feel obligated to share the results of my five-year-long investigation into the medical benefits of the cannabis plant. Before I started this worldwide, in-depth investigation, I was not particularly impressed by the results of medical marijuana research, but a few years later, as I started to dedicate time with patients and scientists in various countries, I came to a different conclusion.
Not only can cannabis work for a variety of conditions such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and pain, sometimes, it is the only thing that works. I changed my mind, and I am certain you can, as well. It is time for safe and regulated medical marijuana to be made available nationally. I realize this is an unconventional way to reach you, but your office declined numerous requests for an interview, and as a journalist, a doctor and a citizen, I felt it imperative to make sure you had access to our findings.
What if you have an allergy to pot, gives me severe migraines, opiates work for me, so if I live there I get mre pay and migraines? Wow, this may suck for some like me, oh well, life with pain is for me
Just wait for the backlash from the opioid pill makers.
WHAT? GOOD NEWS? WHAT THE HECK IS THIS!?
Nice.
this could be the better way to end the drug war and opioid addiction. not with the fascist law enforcement but by healthcare
It's not easy to just switch from pills to pot. Gotta go through a horrible withdrawal process. Most likely some therapy too to deal with the depression they cause.
'Orange Hitler' had nothing to do with it, don't give him any credit!
Good news except for firefighters. We aren't allowed to. We risk our lives for strangers, but are not allowed to treat our pain, depression, and anxiety with marijuana. How?
Leftists are mentally ill
Purdue pharmaceuticals your legal heroin dealers hate hear this.
Do all those people know they will NOT be able to practice their 2nd amendment right once they get their medical marijuana cards?
great, switch one addiction with another. No problem, idiots.
Big pharma wants you to have opioids so you can get addicted and they can profit as U medicate to get off the addiction
about damn time this starts happening
Why are Americans so dependant on painkillers? I really don't get it. Are they so unhealthy they need to suppress pain on a regular basis?
Love it.
Working out why there is an opioid epidemic is easy. Anyone who lives in a country with no universal healthcare, mass shootings, no living wage, poisoned water and air etc etc….you'd want to live on another plain.
I for one would like to see us get to a point where we can phase out opioid prescription painkillers altogether.
Now to outlaw Tobacco.
My instincts are drawn to green, organic things, filled with variety, color and texture coming from the heart of nature. I don't trust things fabricated by greed coming from the ego of man.
Just truth be told it's for whites only because they realize who's being infected by the pain pills problem and it's most definitely not blacks because of it was we wouldn't hear about it ijs
This had nothing to do with Opioid deaths. It was about gun control. Understand that once you get that medical marijuana card it MUST be reported to government and you cannot own a firearm, it is against federal law. It is another way to disarm the public using sneaky tactics. If they truly gave a damn about Opioid deaths they would not be raising health insurance cost and treatment centers would be everywhere for free. Don’t believe the lies. Check for yourself. See what new gun laws follow and how many people go to jail and not to treatment centers. People have been smoking weed for years, if they wanted it they don’t need a prescription. And It’s already legal in the state “as he said” so what the hell do they need a prescription for? Think people.
ALL drugs should be legalized for everyone. It is a PERSONAL CHOICE – NOBODY ELSE'S BUSINESS – how much opioid painkiller or marijuana someone takes.
Yeah, here is the BIG Problem.. The INSURANCE Companies will NOT Pay for the Prescriptions, so they are making out like a BANDIT! This is a total Windfall for the Insurance companies.. It is not fair to people getting the prescriptions, like me..
WIN!!!!!!!!!!
Finally..i can get out of pain
They are doing it cuz they just made a new marijuana pill. They want to tap into the marijuana market
Someone needs to teach me about marijuana because it's medically legal here and it actually INCREASED my pain from my chronic muscle spasm.. I hear others say it stopped theirs.. I think it hates me 😣 I heard that it could be a different strain that I should use but idk…
What a great idea! Farron my brother, you said a HUGH mouth full of truth, THANK YOU… Now if we can get you to examine "legalization" versus de-criminalization so that we don't turn something so positive into yet ANOTHER revenue stream for the "fat cats" to fight over!
Way to go Illinois
Sweet about time a state addresses the way medical cannabis can get people down on opoids or compleatly off opoids i am one who took my life back and quit the pills for medical cannabis never look back at the ugly of opoids
love weed 🔥🔥🌿🌿🌈🌈😭☺
This certainly could not hurt. No one ever ODed on marijuana.
GO GREEN ALL THE WAY!!!
🌿🚬💨
yay from central Illinois
"Medical marijuana" doesn't exist. Neither does "recreational marijuana".
It's one plant. It's name is CANNABIS.
Good to hear though.
WE NEED ACCESS TO THE WHOLE PLANT SO WE CAN LIVE WHOLE LIVES!! ALL WE WANT IS TO LIVE WITHOUT NEEDLESSLY SUFFERING DOING IT!! MANY ARE STILL NEEDLESSLY SUFFERING FOR NO OTHER REASONS THAN THE GREED AND CORRUPTION OF CRIMINAL POLITICIANS AND THEIR RICH BRIBERS THINKING IT MORE IMPORTANT TO GET RICHER THEN IT IS TO END THE NEEDLESS SUFFERING OF FAR TOO MANY!! #MakeCannabisLawful
Opium should be legalized. I could go for a tug on some black tar about now!
Big Pharma feels Ill and annoyed.
This is good news. A step in the right direction.
The opioids are free (paid by insurance).. Is the medical marijuana free? Paid for by insurance? If not, the program is silly not solid.
People suffering real pain dont care what they get prescribed..so long as get a life pain free…but those fuking junkies are making real pain management impossible..
More White privilege…How did they curve crack cocaine in the BLACK cities?!? With a prison sentence.. Where is their joint at?!!
And still you get fired for not passing a drug test because it’s still illegal in the federal government
Not to mention this:
http://www.laweekly.com/news/new-rehab-will-treat-drug-addiction-with-marijuana-7843077
New Rehab Will Treat Drug Addiction With … Marijuana?
Hillel Aron | January 20, 2017 | 7:49am
A new rehab facility opening in West Los Angeles promises to treat drug addiction in a new and exciting way: by giving addicts drugs.
High Sobriety bills itself as "cannabis inclusive treatment" and stands in direct contrast to most treatment centers, which preach complete abstinence from mind-altering substances, including alcohol and marijuana. According to its website, High Sobriety uses marijuana to help patients detox from drugs and alcohol, and also as part of the center's continuing care:
At High Sobriety, our first and foremost goal is to eliminate the risk of death from drug use. Cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, pharmaceuticals and other street drugs all have a lethal dose. Leading the death toll, killing more than all others combined, is alcohol. Cannabis has no known lethal dose. The simple truth is eliminating drugs with a lethal dose and using a drug with no lethal dose is a massive improvement, life improving, and life saving. For generations we have been told that cannabis is a “gateway” drug, at High Sobriety, we believe it is an exit drug.
But there's no evidence that it works…. unless of course you listen to a Neurosurgeon who knows wtf he is talking about.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/04/24/health/medical-marijuana-opioid-epidemic-sanjay-gupta/index.html
Gupta: Evidence has become increasingly clear of the important role cannabis can have combating opioid addiction
Data suggest that medicinal marijuana could save up to 10,000 lives every year
Editor's Note: (Watch Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta's CNN Special Report "Weed 4: Pot vs. Pills" on Sunday, April 29, at 8 p.m. ET.)
(CNN) Dear Honorable Jeff Sessions,
I feel obligated to share the results of my five-year-long investigation into the medical benefits of the cannabis plant. Before I started this worldwide, in-depth investigation, I was not particularly impressed by the results of medical marijuana research, but a few years later, as I started to dedicate time with patients and scientists in various countries, I came to a different conclusion.
Not only can cannabis work for a variety of conditions such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and pain, sometimes, it is the only thing that works. I changed my mind, and I am certain you can, as well. It is time for safe and regulated medical marijuana to be made available nationally. I realize this is an unconventional way to reach you, but your office declined numerous requests for an interview, and as a journalist, a doctor and a citizen, I felt it imperative to make sure you had access to our findings.
What if you have an allergy to pot, gives me severe migraines, opiates work for me, so if I live there I get mre pay and migraines? Wow, this may suck for some like me, oh well, life with pain is for me
Just wait for the backlash from the opioid pill makers.
WHAT? GOOD NEWS? WHAT THE HECK IS THIS!?
Nice.
this could be the better way to end the drug war and opioid addiction. not with the fascist law enforcement but by healthcare
It's not easy to just switch from pills to pot. Gotta go through a horrible withdrawal process. Most likely some therapy too to deal with the depression they cause.
'Orange Hitler' had nothing to do with it, don't give him any credit!