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I went to Northwestern Hospital for a two day stay which involved emoblization of the liver where small beads are inserted into the vascular portion of the tumors on my liver which blocks off the blood supply and they usually insert radiation. I had my left lung lobe removed in 2008, and have been fighting the spread with my 11th surgery yesterday. Endocrine cancer is slow. Steve Jobs lasted 7 years from his tumor on his pancreas which beat the odds at the time as 48 months was usually mortality.
I just got home and was released early from the hospital. I am feeling great and all the people who have told me about horrible experiences with this procedure were NOT taking medical pot and did not have a state issued card.
Normally in the hospital, the first priority is to remove pain. So opiates can basically knock a person unconscious with increased dosage, and dull pain and the senses. I believe hospitals and the medical profession in the regulatory structure which is controlled by big Pharmacy is the primary source of opiate abuse in America. My story I am about to tell is just one more:
[b evidence is evidence from anecdotes, i.e., evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony. ... Accurate determination of whether an anecdote is "typical" requires statistical evidence.[/b]
And that is the problem with America's response in creation of the drug war is mostly anecdotal evidence which cuts both ways......pot is the pathway drug to the opiate epidemic, or pot solves all problems. This primitive response is no acceptable when so many precious tax dollars has been flushed down the toilet with expansions of the criminal justice system as more people are dying now from opiate addiction than who die in car accidents.
I am writing a bill to give to my congressman, and various Illinois politicians on the oversight committee for the Illinois department of Health. It will be simple. I had to self medicate at Northwestern Hospital on my prescription where the State of Illinois gave me a photo id to go to licensed clinics in Illinois to get the chewable medications which contain cabinoids in varying strength, yet Northwestern's Hospital pharmacy is not authorized to do the same under federal law or the Illinois medical pot legislation where it took me two months to get my terminal patient card approved.
A person going into a licensed hospital should have the opportunity to have ALL approved medications dispensed from a hospital pharmacy. Federal law restricts this and further compounds the problem with not allowing credit cards or any banking transaction to take place in medical pot approved states.
My barebone proposal is simple"
1. Enabling paragraphs which cite each federal statute which impacts the legal use of medical Pot. This would lift criminal penalties, banking restrictions, and any other regulatory blocks to medical pot.
2. Allows licensed Hospitals in each state to be exempt from any restriction on dispensing medical caniboids from their pharmacy to a patient, after the patient has met with a pharmacy consultant on the differing pain benefits of certain combinations of caniboids. These prescriptions would be only 90 day approval prescriptions, with a one day approval process from the federal government as long as the patient gave their consent and agreed to be in a nationwide study of pain reduction with caniboids. The federal program and the pharmacy consultants would be compensated from a separate tax on federal medical pot. This law would be given a five year trial to gather the data, and would require congressional hearings to review the medical evidence over the five year trial.
My argument is simple. We need to save taxpayers money. We need to reevaluate our failed drug war, not with anecdotal evidence from police or potheads.....we need empirical medical evidence.
I took my gummies before surgery, I took them after and all through the night and had ZERO pain, on a procedure which was suppose to be painful, and bad nausea . Millions of others have been given opiates for this pain relief and people keep increasing the doses until little old ladies are hooked on opiates and like a tar baby their pills become available and the epidemic rages.
I will get the law changed before I die. Period. I will not see people suffering when there are more moderate non addictive pain interventions which because of Anecdotal criminal justice evidence, or pot heads who says it will cure your bunyons.....we need science and trials but the catch 22 of our federal laws blocks and cause this crisis. Big Pharm will lobby against this but one dying man can beat them.
I just got home and was released early from the hospital. I am feeling great and all the people who have told me about horrible experiences with this procedure were NOT taking medical pot and did not have a state issued card.
Normally in the hospital, the first priority is to remove pain. So opiates can basically knock a person unconscious with increased dosage, and dull pain and the senses. I believe hospitals and the medical profession in the regulatory structure which is controlled by big Pharmacy is the primary source of opiate abuse in America. My story I am about to tell is just one more:
[b evidence is evidence from anecdotes, i.e., evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony. ... Accurate determination of whether an anecdote is "typical" requires statistical evidence.[/b]
And that is the problem with America's response in creation of the drug war is mostly anecdotal evidence which cuts both ways......pot is the pathway drug to the opiate epidemic, or pot solves all problems. This primitive response is no acceptable when so many precious tax dollars has been flushed down the toilet with expansions of the criminal justice system as more people are dying now from opiate addiction than who die in car accidents.
I am writing a bill to give to my congressman, and various Illinois politicians on the oversight committee for the Illinois department of Health. It will be simple. I had to self medicate at Northwestern Hospital on my prescription where the State of Illinois gave me a photo id to go to licensed clinics in Illinois to get the chewable medications which contain cabinoids in varying strength, yet Northwestern's Hospital pharmacy is not authorized to do the same under federal law or the Illinois medical pot legislation where it took me two months to get my terminal patient card approved.
A person going into a licensed hospital should have the opportunity to have ALL approved medications dispensed from a hospital pharmacy. Federal law restricts this and further compounds the problem with not allowing credit cards or any banking transaction to take place in medical pot approved states.
My barebone proposal is simple"
1. Enabling paragraphs which cite each federal statute which impacts the legal use of medical Pot. This would lift criminal penalties, banking restrictions, and any other regulatory blocks to medical pot.
2. Allows licensed Hospitals in each state to be exempt from any restriction on dispensing medical caniboids from their pharmacy to a patient, after the patient has met with a pharmacy consultant on the differing pain benefits of certain combinations of caniboids. These prescriptions would be only 90 day approval prescriptions, with a one day approval process from the federal government as long as the patient gave their consent and agreed to be in a nationwide study of pain reduction with caniboids. The federal program and the pharmacy consultants would be compensated from a separate tax on federal medical pot. This law would be given a five year trial to gather the data, and would require congressional hearings to review the medical evidence over the five year trial.
My argument is simple. We need to save taxpayers money. We need to reevaluate our failed drug war, not with anecdotal evidence from police or potheads.....we need empirical medical evidence.
I took my gummies before surgery, I took them after and all through the night and had ZERO pain, on a procedure which was suppose to be painful, and bad nausea . Millions of others have been given opiates for this pain relief and people keep increasing the doses until little old ladies are hooked on opiates and like a tar baby their pills become available and the epidemic rages.
I will get the law changed before I die. Period. I will not see people suffering when there are more moderate non addictive pain interventions which because of Anecdotal criminal justice evidence, or pot heads who says it will cure your bunyons.....we need science and trials but the catch 22 of our federal laws blocks and cause this crisis. Big Pharm will lobby against this but one dying man can beat them.
