Big Pharma Sweating Bullets As 80% of Cannabis Users Give Up Prescriptions Pills for

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A town hall meeting in Portland, Oregon gave attendees a rare treat. A politician called for mandatory psychological evaluations of police officers. The call was made by Portland Representative Lew Frederick to enthusiastic rounds of applause from the crowd. Frederick called for annual psychological testing of police to battle the effects of the job particularly PTSD. Frederick stated “Every cop that I know can tell me about a PTSD experience they’ve had and they always say they aren’t affected by it. Well they are.” The call for psychological testing comes after a brutal year of police killings.

While Frederick’s call for action aims to verify an officer’s mental state each year, one has to ask if the current psychological screening is effective in and of itself. Psychological screenings for police agencies still utilize primarily the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. The MMPI, as it is otherwise known, is a multiple choice and fill in the blank test containing approximately 1100 questions and takes the better part of a day to complete. To truly understand whether or not the MMPI is sufficient for screening police candidates, you first have to realize that it was first created in 1943. It has been updated three times since then with the most recent update in 2008. The test, for the most part, is the same test as was written during World War II. Having taken the MMPI test for candidacy in at least five different agencies a total of eight times, I can say with certainty that this test is probably one of the single most easily manipulated tests I have ever taken. While some say there are no right answers, everyone knows what the background screeners and police psychologists want to hear. If you are asked, “Do you often feel alone, even when surrounded by friends?”, you should pretty much know what they want to hear, regardless of your state of depression. When asked questions about being outgoing and leadership, you always say you are even if you never could. That’s how bad people become good cops. The MMPI no longer is adequate in screening for the problems we are seeing in police today.


The most startling revelation, and one that will have Big Pharma running to their crony lawmakers, is that 80% of respondents reported substituting cannabis for prescription drugs.


In addition, 52% said they substituted cannabis for alcohol and 32% said they substituted it for illicit substances. These results indicate a very promising trend of people moving away from dangerously addictive and deadly substances in favor of a miracle plant that has never caused an overdose death.

“The finding that cannabis was substituted for all three classes of substances suggests that the medical use of cannabis may play a harm reduction role in the context of use of these substances, and may have implications for abstinence-based substance use treatment approaches. Further research should seek to differentiate between biomedical substitution for prescription pharmaceuticals and psychoactive drug substitution, and to elucidate the mechanisms behind both.”

As The Free Thought Project has reported before, the U.S. is in the midst of a painkiller epidemic, with overdose deaths skyrocketing as Big Pharma has secured its grip on government and mainstream medicine. Opioid painkillers and heroin have driven overdose deaths to the point where they are now the leading cause of fatal injuries in the U.S. Alcohol is also killing Americans at a rate not seen in 35 years.

The results of this survey confirm that cannabis is the answer to all of these problems.

Americans for Safe Access has a comprehensive breakdown of conditions that cannabis can treat, and comparisons to prescription pills.



Chronic Pain
Arthritis
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Movement Disorders
Multiple Sclerosis
We are just beginning to confirm the benefits of cannabis on other conditions such as anxiety which is normally treated with pills such as Xanax, insomnia which is normally treated with pills such as Ambien, and antidepressants which are treated with pills such as Zoloft. All of these prescription drugs can cause debilitating addiction or severe side-effects.

Although the war on drugs put a stop to medical cannabis research for decades, in recent years we have seen a surge in studies being performed, as prohibition crumbles and the Schedule 1 classification of “no medical benefit” is exposed as a farce.


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