Meanwhile yearly marijuana overdoses stay at a constant zero every year, while enforcement of marijuana prohibition kills untold numbers of convincingly innocent people.
Fentanyl, synthetic opioid, was the cause of most of the ODs in the article, synthetics are a worse problem than the natural versions.
But police suspect the heroin here was mixed with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is many times more potent than heroin. A wave of fatal overdoses signaled fentanyl’s arrival in Huntington in early 2015, and now some stashes aren’t heroin laced with fentanyl, but “fentanyl laced with heroin,” said Police Chief Joe Ciccarelli.
[1] https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/fentanyl-maker-insys-gi...
[2] http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/03/23/synthetic-thc-drug-ins...
[3] https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/29/fentanyl-heroin-photo-fa...
When you're choosing between falling another month behind on rent on the apartment you were "so lucky" to get and getting a throbbing cavity filled at the dentist, you might not think too much about it.
There are a lot of business out there which make a lot of their money in some very unethical ways, and people who choose to be part of that... I just don't understand. I couldn't live with myself.
I know several people who have died of overdoses, so I'm probably biased, but I'm truly disgusted by what is going on.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." — Upton Sinclair
Even professionals want a salary and a job.
False. Syndros is delta-9-THC.
The overdose is similar to too much weed: lethargy, decreased motor coordination, slurred speech, and postural hypotension. Non fatal overdoses have occurred and only one was a death from delta-9 but it was probably related to another condition (in other tests of dronabinol not Syndros specifically -- we'll find out about Syndros soon). Even synthetic THC is safer than opioids, alcohol and many other things. In my opinion natural cannabis is safer than the pharma synthetics.
So why is the natural THC in cannabis Schedule I and this drug Schedule II? Beyond that, the really hypocritical thing about it is that Insys wants to keep legal cannabis away but push their synthetics. That can't be something you agree with unless you are bought in. I don't really care if synthetic THC is out there, but if it is, so should natural THC in cannabis. If both are completely safe, they should at least be same level classified or not on the crooked and legacy DEA controlled substances list at all, especially if they have medical value which they do.
I'm guessing the reason people say you can "overdose" for Syndros is because they're required to specify some arbitrary limit. Just like how storebought honey has an expiration date attached, even though honey never expires.
I suppose it's also easier to take too much, if it comes as a concentrated syrup. But the same thing happens with edibles.