Medical Marijuana Considered in War Against Illinois’ Opioid Crisis

By SARAH ZIMMERMAN | June 6, 2018

  • June 6, 2018 at 2:25 pm
    Ben James says:
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    EVERY 9 MINUTES in the USA a child is admitted to a hospital emergency room for pharmaceutical drug poisoning for a total of over 58,000 kids per year. Unfortunately thousands of these children never go home again.

    104 US CITIZENS ARE KILLED PER DAY from overdose of opium-based pharmaceuticals. Use of legal pharmaceutical opioids like Percocet, Fentanyl, Oxycodone, Percodan are proven to be a direct GATEWAY to heroin use. From the CDC.gov: Prescription drugs are directly responsible for over 237,000 deaths yearly in the US plus over 5,000 traffic deaths due to pharmaceutical intoxicated drivers.

    284 US CITIZENS ARE KILLED PER DAY due to alcohol consumption. Booze is a direct GATEWAY to alcoholism, homelessness, street violence, domestic violence, murder, traffic fatalities, teen pregnancies and death. Over 88,000 people die every year in our nation due to alcohol consumption plus 16,000 more in traffic fatalities directly caused by booze intoxicated drivers.

    1315 US CITIZENS ARE KILLED PER DAY BY TOBACCO SMOKE. Tobacco is highly addictive and kills over 480,000 Americans every year.

    Cannabis has still never killed one single person in all medical history due to toxic overdose. No matter how much cannabis is consumed (even an entire bag of edibles) it is never fatal due to overdose. Not one police agency in the United States even keeps a statistic for fatal auto accidents caused solely by cannabis intoxication.

    So, which is safer???? Legalize, regulate and TAX recreational cannabis!

  • June 13, 2018 at 9:27 am
    Dia says:
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    I support cannabis use as the first line of treatment but in no way should we be taxing it other than like any other Herb, vegetable, fruit. We humans have an internal EndoCannaBinoid System (ECS) that plays a vital role with our DNA system. Cannabinoids found in the Cannabis are needed (not wanted) for human survival. I live in MI where we do not tax our drugs nor unprepared food and it states so in our MI STATE CONSTITUTION Article IX section 8 and those allowing it are doing so illegally . Allowing a tax on our ECS is a step back to being owned, be careful what you freely surrender to, we need to fight to preserve the freedom for ourselves and our children.



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