What is it that you mean by a 'non-addictive' opioid? They're all roughly equivalent in their addictive potential. Even those that are used to treat addiction, such as buprenorphine, cause physical and mental dependence.
Lamictal carries the potential for severe side effects, much more so than SSRIs/SNRIs. Lamotrigine prescribing information has a black box warning about life-threatening skin reactions, including Stevens–Johnson syndrome, DRESS syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis.
Do you have any evidence for the efficacy of antidepressants that others, including their manufacturers, do not? In fact, SSRIs/SNRIs are not particularly effective -- at least no more effective than placebo.
Word itself provides a compare function that works very well, and there are alternative tools that also provide versioning functionality that can be combined with various document management tools, essentially providing GitHub for Word files (see, e.g., Interwoven iManage, etc.).
Word itself will diff Word documents beautifully, and there are alternative solutions as well (Workshare/DeltaView, Change-Pro, etc.) that are even more powerful.
None of this is accurate. Airlines reps have the same information as you get on the website, and airlines usually charge an extra fee for booking via phone.
What is hard to hedge? If you have a large investment in corporations in the pot industry (although I would dispute your claim that there is a lot of institutional money in pot now), you could easily hedge against the fall of these corporations with CDS and other derivatives.
Is there any real, peer-reviewed evidence that marijuana has any positive medical effects -- i.e., that it can be used "medically" to treat any disease?
Do you have support for the claim that US-developed drugs are generally available sooner in non-US markets? My understanding was that these drugs are generally available first in the US market, but that the developers may use FDA approval to help with EU approval, etc.
No, America was rural before rail and the highway systems, as was the rest of the world. America has gotten progressively less rural since its founding as fewer people have had to be directly engaged in farming.