If you’ve ever wondered how the Cannabis industry is going to survive after people have all the pot they need for recreational use, well here’s your answer.  Government/Medical/Industrial collaboration, that’s how.

Marijuana and painkillers A recent of medical marijuana patients by geriatric physicians at one of the nation’s largest health care systems found that 65 percent were able to reduce their use of other painkillers, including 27 percent who said they got off painkillers completely. The patients used marijuana to deal with chronic pain from osteoarthritis, spinal stenosis and other conditions. An overwhelming 91 percent said they would recommend medical marijuana to others.  https://greenlightapproved.com/cannabis-helping-offset-americas-opioid-crisis/

There’s more on this switching of addicts over here,  and here. 

http://theconversation.com/now-that-cannabis-is-legal-lets-use-it-to-tackle-the-opioid-crisis-105114

Medical use of Cannabis as a way of transitioning off of opiates will make the Cannabis Businessmen Millions to possibly Billions of dollars when regularly prescribed pot replaces peoples addiction to painkillers.

Cannabis will then have a solid foothold in America and will then be able to say they can’t be shut down because they will have the argument of what to do with all of the addicts that need cannabis now that they are off opiates.

Medical Opiate treatment could make people who are addicted to Oxycodone, for example, one of the largest Cannabis market share in the future.  It’s estimated that as many as 18 million people misused prescription medicine in 2017.  There is a very large appetite for a substitute for Opiate addiction in America.

The current list of Opiates that are prescribed are:

  • Codeine (only available in generic form)
  • Fentanyl (Actiq, Duragesic, Fentora, Abstral, Onsolis)
  • Hydrocodone (Hysingla, Zohydro ER)
  • Hydrocodone/acetaminophen (Lorcet, Lortab, Norco, Vicodin)
  • Hydromorphone (Dilaudid, Exalgo)
  • Meperidine (Demerol)
  • Methadone (Dolophine, Methadose)
  • Morphine (Kadian, MS Contin, Morphabond)
  • Oxycodone (OxyContin, Oxaydo)
  • Oxycodone and acetaminophen (Percocet, Roxicet)
  • Oxycodone and naloxone

Doctors have been toying around with the idea of treating Opiate addiction with Cannabis for a while now but are just recently going full mainstream with the potential explosion of growth for Cannabis growers in Desert Hot Springs. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And just wait til big Pharma owns a large share of the cannabis industry.  They will own the patients from the beginning of their addiction process by selling prescriptions to addicts who are in pain and need morphine or just plain misusing prescription medication.  And later on when the addicts need to get off Codeine because it’s killing them, the same Big Pharma can profit from them on the back end by selling them a replacement for what got them addicted in the first place.

It’s a win win for the Pharmaceutical Industry and Desert Hot Springs lead the way towards it.

And as the vice president of CVCAN recently reminded me personally when we discussed this very same topic…  She said…  Cannabis is a business.

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