On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > On 10/27/2017 9:30 AM, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
