On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10/27/2017 9:30 AM, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Brent Meeker <[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
Another class of drugs can help here -- also ranking quite low in terms of harm potential on the meta-study by Dr. David Nutt*. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0269881117714049 * I know, I know, his name doesn't really help :) > Bent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
