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Re:More doctors warming up to marijuana’s medical benefits by craftyguy on Saturday October 13, 2018 @01:29PM (#18209020)
How is marijuana even remotely as addicting as opioids? (Hint: it is not)
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Re:More doctors warming up to marijuana’s medical benefits by krustyburger on Saturday October 13, 2018 @02:49PM (#18209396)
The parent didn’t say anything about it being addictive, just that there was a lot of money to be made distributing it, which there clearly is.
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Re:More doctors warming up to marijuana’s medical benefits by craftyguy on Saturday October 13, 2018 @02:59PM (#18209453)
A major component to opioids is how addicting they are.. which plays right into the profitability. Marijuana wouldn't be as profitable, so it is not 'the new opioid'.
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Re:More doctors warming up to marijuana’s medical benefits by mtnGoat on Saturday October 13, 2018 @03:09PM (#18209506)
its pretty generally accepted that marijuana is psychologically addicting. so addiction certainly plays into the profitability.

then again facebooks business model is based off addiction to scrolling, so ehh.

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Re:More doctors warming up to marijuana’s medical benefits by r00fus on Saturday October 13, 2018 @09:06PM (#18210824)
There's also good money in most medical professions... does that make medicine bad?

The profitability of a thing does not necessarily indicate it's ethical value.

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