Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts

Powerful New Painkiller Gives Drug Warriors A Headache

by Tom Wilemon.      Government's noble war to free you from pain relief. A powerful new pain medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that easily can be manipulated by abusers has officials in Tennessee and other states worried. Called Zohydro, it’s an extended-release form of hydrocodone that comes in a capsule   ... MORE

Feds Ignore Both States Rights And Medical Evidence

by Shane Trejo.     Raids in legal weed states display contempt for the people's will. Major developments are taking place in the medical marijuana community that are opening eyes everywhere, much to the chagrin of the feds. A number of testimonials continue to emerge that indicate the tremendous healing power of marijuana rich in CBD, ... MORE

Employers Prepare To Dump Workers Into ObamaCare

by Ed Morrissey.     Who didn’t see this coming? According to Kaiser Health News, employers are increasingly looking at the benefits of getting out of the health-insurance delivery process. Fueling this interest are ObamaCare-related spikes in health-insurance premiums, plus the opportunity to fix costs and reduce vulnerabilities presented    ... MORE

Ten Pot Studies Government Wished It Hadn't Funded

Inconvenient truths for prohibitionists. Number 10. Marijuana use has no effect on mortality: A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found marijuana use caused no significant increase in mortality. Tobacco use was associated with increased risk of death.          ... MORE

Lisa Crivelli: The New Faces Of Marijuana

Nothing short of a miracle treatment for epilepsy.    Two years ago, Charlotte Figi was losing a lifelong battle to epilepsy. Her parents were using a hospice program at home because she wasn’t eating, had chronic pneumonia, and couldn’t swallow water. At the age of five, Charlotte was suffering up to 50 seizures a day. Two years ago,    ... MORE

John Stossel: Bullies Rule

We're told government protects us,       but protectors quickly become bullies. Take the Food and Drug Administration. It seems like the most helpful part of government: It supervises testing to make sure greedy drug companies don't sell us dangerous stuff. The FDA's first big success was stopping thalidomide, a drug that prevented the    ... MORE

Families Move To Secure Medical Marijuana For Kids

by Lisa Bernard-Kuhn.      Moving to Colorado. The Bentons will move as soon as Addyson comes off the waiting list, which they hope will be October – leaving behind the home in Liberty Township, Ohio, that they built less than a year ago and the friends and family who have supported them. "It's so sad to know that Addyson won't be able to see     ... MORE

Marijuana Research Hampered By Government And Politics

by Ariana Eunjung Cha.      Millions of ordinary Americans are now able to walk into a marijuana dispensary and purchase bags of pot on the spot for a variety of medical ailments. But if you’re a researcher like Sue Sisley, a psychiatrist who studies post-traumatic stress disorder, getting access to the drug isn’t nearly so easy. That’s because the    ... MORE

Alex Greig: Six Year Old Dies From Medical Pot Prohibition

Another victim of the drug war.      A little girl has died just days after a Utah bill, HB104, was named Charlee's Law in her honor. Six-year-old Charlee Nelson died on Saturday after battling a debilitating neurological disorder called Batten disease. On Thursday, the Utah Legislature passed a law named for Charlee that allows children    ... MORE

How Kids Are Bringing Medical Marijuana to the States

by Emma Roller.       In conservative states like Alabama, Georgia, and Utah—where medical-marijuana bills would have sputtered and died on the floor ten years ago—legislatures are now passing pot measures with nearly unanimous support. What gives? "When you couldn't get bills introduced for a decade, and now they're passing like they're on   ... MORE

Nick Gillespie: Kill The FDA (Before It Kills Again!)

Death by government.     If you haven't seen The Dallas Buyers Club, which took home three Oscars last Sunday, you should. It's the most flat-out libertarian movie since Ghostbusters and one of the best message movies I can think of (of course, like all quality message movies, it's first and foremost a powerful piece of art). Specifically, it shines a  ... MORE

50 Reasons This Is The Greatest Period In History

by Morgan House.       Other than losing our liberties, life is good. I recently talked to a doctor who retired after a 30-year career. I asked him how much medicine had changed during the three decades he practiced. "Oh, tremendously," he said. He listed off a dozen examples. Deaths from heart disease and stroke are way down. Cancer survival rates    ... MORE

How Legal Pot Could Be The Next Great American Industry

The new gold rush.             As legalized marijuana sales take off in Colorado, here's what a pot business model and mature marketplace might look like. Twenty states and the District of Columbia allow medical marijuana—and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a medical marijuana plan in his State of the State speech last week.    ... MORE

Caution: New ObamaCare Fees To Be Deployed In 2014

by S.A. Miller and Geoff Earle.       Here comes the ObamaCare tax bill. The cost of President Obama’s massive health-care law will hit Americans in 2014 as new taxes pile up on their insurance premiums and on their income-tax bills. Most insurers aren’t advertising the ObamaCare taxes that are added on to premiums, opting instead to        ... MORE

No, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under ObamaCare

by Scott Gottlieb.     The President famously promised that you could keep your health plan and doctor. For many people, both of those pledges are turning out to be false. And now, you might not be able to keep your medicine, either. There are two reasons why. The first has to do with the higher out of pocket costs patients will face. The second issue  ... MORE