On 10/27/2017 9:30 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:

    ​> ​
    There are a lot of other painkillers

But
​ ​
marijuana
​ ​
is the only painkiller I know of that has a 0% chance of death by overdose, and yet it is illegal to use in most states, even for
​cancer​
 patients in agony.  But Aspirin is legal
​and​
 that can
​kill​
 you,
​

So can table salt.  "The dose makes the poison." - Paracelsus

and ​
Oxycodone
​ is legal too and
if
​the pain is too strong for ​
Aspirin the law encourages you to switch to
​that
​or some ​
other
​ ​
opioid which is projected to kill 500,000 Americans in the next decade
​.

And air pollution, mostly from fossil fuel extraction and burning, is projected to kill 2 million.
http://news.mit.edu/2013/study-air-pollution-causes-200000-early-deaths-each-year-in-the-us-0829

Bent

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