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Originally Posted by Love2Swim
So in your opinion, the opioid crisis is a "conspiracy"?  |
I think that everything that Washington does is motivated by votes and lobbies. I'm sure that the pharmaceutical lobbies are very powerful, but insurance companies also have very powerful lobbies and I'm sure that they are getting tired of paying for these drugs.
The legalize marijuana lobby is rapidly growing and who knows how much influence they have placed on politicians. After all, no research has really been done on marijuana.
Every other legal drug on the market has been tested multiple times, first on animals and then on humans. The main concern is the deleterious effects that these drugs have had.
I'm not taking a position on whether or not marijuana is effective, I'm just saying that several states have legalized it without any of the testing that other drugs go through. Legalization was basically a political move.
It is still illegal on the federal level by the way. The federal government could come into a state and shut down all marijuana production and sales.
Do you think that there are no lobbies representing pain management clinics? That wasn't even a medical specialty until recently.
From what I've read, well over 90% of all problems with opioids are related to illegal use. Ninety percent of the people who have had the medication prescribed legally and are using them as directed have no problem.
I have to ask why are they going to hard after the legal users?
I'm not much of a conspiracy guy, but I am very suspicious of our government.