BIG PHARMA: The Real Reason Pharma Companies Hate Medical Marijuana (Spoiler Alert: It Works) – By Mike Krieger

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Source – libertyblitzkrieg.com

“…Prescriptions for painkillers and other classes of drugs fell sharply compared with states that did not have a medical-marijuana law. The drops were quite significant: In medical-marijuana states, the average doctor prescribed 265 fewer doses of antidepressants each year, 486 fewer doses of seizure medication, 541 fewer anti-nausea doses and 562 fewer doses of anti-anxiety medication”:

(The Real Reason Pharma Companies Hate Medical Marijuana (Spoiler Alert: It Works – By Mike Krieger)

Former Federal Judge Nancy Gertner was appointed to the federal bench by Bill Clinton in 1994. She presided over trials for 17 years. And Sunday, she stood before a crowd at The Aspen Ideas Festival to denounce most punishments that she imposed.

Among 500 sanctions that she handed down, “80 percent I believe were unfair and disproportionate,” she said. “I left the bench in 2011 to join the Harvard faculty to write about those stories––to write about how…

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