For those of us pain patients who had their opioid-based medication taken "because of the opioid epidemic" (even though we did nothing wrong and had been stable for many years or even decades) and were just told to "use cannabis" by all the non-pain patients on the internet, and when we said "cannabis doesn't work for me" and you called us liars or said we are using it wrong, this study is not a big surprise.
Meanwhile people I know have been driven to suicide as their only (legal) option to escape the pain, or spending their food money for illegal opioids that might do nothing for you at best or kill you at worst (fentanyl), instead of having reasonable lives and getting safe and known medication from a pharmacy. And these are people who did nothing wrong and hurt nobody. I suspect history is not going to look back kindly on the people who have mismanaged this in such a grotesque and inhumane way (such as politicians and bureaucrats who waved a magic wand and decided that all doctors should scale some percentage of patients down or face legal threats from the DEA or FDA and possibly loss of license), under the guise of trying to help.
1. This sounds harsh at first, but carry on it is actually on your side; But - just the typical nerd "akshully" first.
cannabis is not cbd.
cannabis does not work for everyone.
nor do opioids. (the worst part for my friend who had to take care of her friend who was dying of cancer where opioids didn't work :()
pushers can diaf (weed or others)
2. here is the meat (if there is any in my opinion).
my roomie has similar issues/fears. there is a horrible situation with how opioids are handled in this country. there are a lot of stupid people who think weed solves everything.
statistically, weed DOES help on mass level (at least so far that we've seen). That doesn't mean it will work for everyone, nor that it's a panacea, nor that we should treat people suffering chronic pain issues who are able to maintain with a proper medical regime.
neither side is "evil" and we should stop fighting each other, when there should be support for both sides out of compassion. Too often advocates (I mean weed here) end up sounding like religious zealots.
We need sane legalization and proper medicalization of both cannabinoids and opioids without the hype cycles and evil actors in both legal and illicit channels. Having family members commit suicide due to chronic pain and mental health issues, this is an important issue to me, and it's infuriating to see well meaning people on both sides end up hurting the people who need help the most with illinformed and positions that seem more to satisfy their sense of self-superiority than actually finding solutions to help people.
Meanwhile people I know have been driven to suicide as their only (legal) option to escape the pain, or spending their food money for illegal opioids that might do nothing for you at best or kill you at worst (fentanyl), instead of having reasonable lives and getting safe and known medication from a pharmacy. And these are people who did nothing wrong and hurt nobody. I suspect history is not going to look back kindly on the people who have mismanaged this in such a grotesque and inhumane way (such as politicians and bureaucrats who waved a magic wand and decided that all doctors should scale some percentage of patients down or face legal threats from the DEA or FDA and possibly loss of license), under the guise of trying to help.