Comments by "Deborah Freedman" (@deborahfreedman333) on "Van Jones rips Trump's death penalty for drug dealers proposal" video.

  1. You want to get rid of pushers? Then legalize it. That is the only thing that will get rid of a black market.
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  2. Actually, places in this country that have medical marijuana have less problems with opiate addiction. As a chemo patient, I avoided getting hooked on the oxycontin my oncologist kept writing scripts for, by eating the cannabis cookies my wonderful daughter baked me. Oxycontin makes one nauseous and constipated, and is physically addictive. Cannabis is not physically addictive, doesn't block you up and helps with nausea. They should hand a big bag of edibles to every patient in the infusion room.
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  3. Kalendas It isn't so much the detail men (pharma reps) that are giving the physicians money. Physicians have to attend a certain number of classes each year to keep their license. Pharma offers them seminars that fulfill these requirements, at fancy resorts, free of charge, where they promote their products. They pay other doctors huge amounts of money to run the seminars.
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  4. What has the war on drugs given us? The biggest per capita prison population, antipathy between the police and the people they 'protect', gangs with a lot more fire power, cops with military equipment and more potent pot. I lived in Southern California when Carter started dropping paraquat on the marijuana fields in Mexico. At that time, the pot you bought was cheap, weak and seedy. But when cheap Mexican weed was no longer available, California and Oregon took up the slack and improved it. American growers culled all the male plants, et voila, more potent pot. Now we have all these feminized strains and you can get high on a much smaller amount. Good job, war on drugs.
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