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The media hysterics against opioids, such as The New York Times, ought to be ashamed of themselves! http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/opioid-epidemic-drug-mix-overdose-death Bob Bee- It's prohibition that serves to ensure opioids are more dangerous than they otherwise would be, due to uncertainty of purity and dosage of unregulated, black market drugs. Thus prohibition makes fatal OD's more likely, not less. Opioids should be legalized, regulated, and taxed like tobacco and alcohol. That way, users would know exactly what they were buying and the dosage. Also, opioid legalization would mean good, old, natural opium would be legally available. Users could opt for opium (active ingredients include morphine & codeine. It can be eaten, smoked, or consumed as a tea) as a safer alternative to ultra-potent pharma-junk powders & pills. Opium's safer as it's less concentrated and is harder to fatally OD on. End the counter-productive,...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/21/health/opioid-prescriptions-drop-for-first-time-in-two-decades.html?_r=0 (excerpts) "...for each of the past three years — 2013, 2014 and 2015 — prescriptions have declined, a review of several sources of data shows." " IMS Health, an information firm whose data on prescribing is used throughout the health care industry, found a 12 percent decline in opioid prescriptions nationally since a peak in 2012. Another data company, Symphony Health Solutions, reported a drop of about 18 percent during those years. Opioid prescriptions have fallen in 49 states since 2013, according to IMS, with some of the sharpest decreases coming in West Virginia, the state considered the center of the opioid epidemic, and in Texas and Oklahoma. (Only South Dakota showed an increase.)" ... ... One important development that may have helped propel the decline came in 2014, when the federal government tightened prescribing rules for one of the most c...

Trump has abandoned his earlier idea of being self-funded. http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/US-GOP-2016-Trump-Money/2016/05/24/id/730470/?ns_mail_uid=7499169&ns_mail_job=1669680_05242016&s=al&dkt_nbr=tiwkw91r Trump and the RNC on Tuesday announced new additions to the financial operation, including New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, roofing company owner Diane Hendricks and former Ambassador Mel Sembler, who helped raise major money for previous presidential candidates. About Mel Sembler's assault on freedom of medicine and diet, particularly Cannabis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Sembler In 1976, Sembler and his wife Betty founded Straight, Inc. , an adolescent drug treatment program which has treated more than 12,000 addicts. The group now operates as the Drug Free America Foundation. [18] In May 1983, Straight, Inc was convicted of false imprisonment after being sued by then 20-year-old Fred Collins Jr, who alleged he had been held captive by the program a...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/opinion/sunday/opioid-use-and-abuse.html?_r=0 To the Editor: Re “ A Strong Response to the Opioid Scourge” (editorial, March 17): There are longtime users of low-dose opioids, like me, who never require an increase in dose and who find that this medication provides quality of life. How? By addressing chronic pain, sleep disorders and associated depression. The alternatives proposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, like aspirin and ibuprofen, can cause long-term damage to body organs and short-term stomach pain. For many of us, spare use of a low-dose opioid is the very best alternative. Unfortunately, voices like mine are not heard often. Why? Because the media climate right now is so fiercely anti-opioid that those who rely on this drug can feel hesitant to speak out. More reporting should be done on the lives saved and enhanced by opioids, in addition to the terrible consequences of addiction. Policy should reflect a m...

ZERO mention of market-control mercantilism of the war to protect Tobacco cigarettes and synthetic pharmaceuticals Focuses EXCLUSIVELY upon racism as fears of Chinese Opium smokers and Black cocaine sniffers respectively in the western and south-eastern United States of America http://www.upworthy.com/i-thought-we-banned-cocaine-for-health-reasons-nope-not-even-close?g=2&c=ufb1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wONAqaxgIoo

Supports the 'drug war' perversion of useful natural substances into concentrated poisons, lying through their teeth about Cannabis, and the massive violations of human rights for its criminal mercantilism on behalf of synthetic patentable chemical quackery Medical Control, Medical Corruption By Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. http://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/lew-rockwell/medical-control-medical-corruption/ This article appeared in the June 1994 issue of Chronicles . The vested interests are sick over it: Americans are beginning, just slightly, to take charge of their own health care. Such best-sellers as the Doctor’s Book of Home Remedies , the Physician’s Desk Reference , and the Merck Manual can keep you out of the doctor’s appropriately named waiting room, or at least help you understand what is being done to you, when an apple a day does not work. Who is unhappy with this increased knowledge? The American Medical Association , which for almost 150 years has sought to ins...

Scalia: an alcohol protectionist that favors abusing the 'supremacy clause'  to support pharmacratic inquisition junk statutes against Marijuana http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/19/colorados-neighbors-say-theyre-spending-too-much-on-minor-pot-offenses-so-maybe-they-should-stop-prosecuting-them/ What a HUGE hypocrite Nebraska is! - From Russ Belville: "The tiny town of Whiteclay, Nebraska, population 10, holds the distinction of being the US town with the greatest beer sales per capita of any American town. This town of 10 has four licensed off-sale beer stores that sold 3.6 million cans of beer in 2013, or almost 10,000 cans of beer per day. How is that possible? Well, Whiteclay, you see, lies on the northern Nebraska border with South Dakota, where it directly abuts the Oglala Sioux (Lakota) Indian Nation on the Pine Ridge Reservation. And Pine Ridge has maintained absolute alcohol prohibition... [where]alcoholism affects an estimated 8...

The New England Medical Journal and organizations as the American Medical Association propagandize for the perversion of a profession that has largely relied upon illegal and immoral tactics to confuse the public about herbal based medicine, particularly confusing dilute and ultra concentrated forms of cocaine use, while shilling for tobacco cigarettes.  This has resulted in a market distortion that killed over 100 million people during the last century with the suppression of Coca, which the USDA recognized as a market threat to Tobacco, while harming health with petrochemical patent medicines known today as pharmaceuticals to say nothing about the harms of drug prohibition and the miseries caused by its enforcement.  It epitomizes a bloated profession that has bilked the public out of billions of dollars that should be sued for medical fraud and human rights violations. From The New England Journal of Medicine review of the book Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostru...

Less addictive than Tobacco and non carcinogenic, Opium was nonetheless demonified by the twentieth century pharma-cigarette criminal mercantilism - with a regimen that would otherwise be seen as silly if applied the methadone model to nicotine. http://reason.com/blog/2013/01/20/if-you-know-too-much-about-poppies-you-c Last July the Kennewick, Washington, Tri-City Herald profiled Poppydog Farms, a new local business selling dried pods from poppies grown on 40 acres in Pasco. The operation had attracted 2,400 customers from across the country, including wholesalers as well as consumers. "Every single day we're getting new customers," enthused co-owner Ken French. "It's turned out to be a lot more successful than we ever dreamed." The paper explained that "crafters use the pods for ornamentation," while "florists grow red, pink and white-and-purple flowers with the seeds." French described the flowers as "stunningly beautiful." Th...