Government Oversight On Your Health, Gone Wrong Again !

[Mr Quim]

We all Assume, our Goverment, will look out for our best Interests ?
Especially, when it comes to our Health issues !

I watched this Documentary recently, on Netflix .

The Bleeding Edge https://g.co/kgs/N8sKwD

A real Eye-Opener, on poor Government oversight, in regards to new Medical Devices .

The fact, that We in Canada, tend to adopt Things coming out of the States ?
Begs the Question ?

Does Canada, have enough Safeguards in Place ?
The two Things that really stuck out for Me, were the Birth-Control, and Hip-Replacement Devices .

The "Essure" for Birth-Control, and "Chromium-Cobalt" for Hip-Replacements .
A couple You might want to be aware of, if You've had these Procedures, or are considering Them ?

Pretty much confirms, Due-Dilligence is a must, in all areas of our Lives ?

Cheers

 

[80watts]

I saw that some time ago, thought ... WTF.

It just goes to show that even doctors (despite their education) don't know everything. They take another doctors word for it. Remember the doctors who used to endorse smoking in the 50's and 60's as good for your health. Same thing with sugar (Netflick has a good doc on that too).

Its funny, most medicines we have to day come from plants, only now its more concentrated, and you are not allowed to grow certain plants.... I guess you are tapping into some pharmo company 's profit...

So education is not useless, you have to educate yourself. And remember not to get ripped off by the big companies' advertisements.....

 

[JimDandy]

The government does not look after our best interests in regards to our health in so many other ways as well.

For example, the collection of taxes thru the sale of alcoholic drinks. The latest and most comprehensive study on the use of alcohol pretty well conclusively proves that "no amount of alcohol is good for your overall health" !

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/23/health/global-alcohol-study/index.html

And pretty soon the government will start collecting even more taxes on the sale of marijuana. And from the general "brain deadness" of all of the potheads I have meant over my relatively long lifetime, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that pot is not generally good for your health either!

So there are 2 other examples of government oversight on your health going wrong. Let's see how many more examples our Perb members can come up with.

JD

 

[80watts]

For the marijuana, the oil is beneficial for cancer patients and for patients with long term pain.

From what I know there are not alot of official studies on marijuana. The problem is it was hard/difficult to study a drug that was illegal. Now maybe there will be more studies to prove its effectiveness for pain relief etc.

The Netflix doc is eye-opening especially in the way companies evaluate their product and get it approved for general use. Full testing no matter what should be the policy.

 

[JimDandy]

For the marijuana, the oil is beneficial for cancer patients and for patients with long term pain.

From what I know there are not alot of official studies on marijuana. The problem is it was hard/difficult to study a drug that was illegal. Now maybe there will be more studies to prove its effectiveness for pain relief etc.

The Netflix doc is eye-opening especially in the way companies evaluate their product and get it approved for general use. Full testing no matter what should be the policy.

You will note I said "pot is not generally good for your health" in regards to the use of marijuana, leaving open the medicinal uses of marijuana to be the exception. While there may be some medicinal uses for marijuana, I still believe that 99% of marijuana use is recreational and therefore not being consumed for health reasons. Patients were already able to get doctors prescriptions for marijuana before the legalization coming later this year, and all of the tax revenues that come with it. How many on this forum, if asked "Would you be ok with your child using marijuana every day?" would answer yes? I think very few. Yet, the answer for the same question, substituting kale for marijuana, would be quite different I suspect. Therefore I think most of us realize that marijuana is generally not that good for our health.

JD

 

[Mr Quim]

How many on this forum, if asked "Would you be ok with your child using marijuana every day?" would answer yes? I think very few. Yet, the answer for the same question, substituting kale for marijuana, would be quite different I suspect. Therefore I think most of us realize that marijuana is generally not that good for our health.

JD

Your Statement, or Question, has such a silly premise IMHO !

Substitute Alcohol, Tobacco, E-Cigarettes, or Snuff where You've referenced Marijuana ?

Would any caring Parent, truly want to endorse, their Child partaking in their daily Consumption ?
I would suggest, probably not !

Moderation, is the Key, to anyone's Healthy Lifestyle !
No matter, what your Age is .
Hopefully, as a Parent, We're successful in instilling that approach to Life in our Children ?

You very rarely hear of a Tragic Story, where the influence of Marijuana was involved ?
Yet, Alcohol has been the root cause, of too many Tragedies to count . And, it's still widely accepted by our Society, as Ok .

I'm going to have to assume, You have very little personal experience with Marijuana, to make such a broad Statement about It ?

Cheers

 

[JimDandy]

Your Statement, or Question, has such a silly premise IMHO !

Substitute Alcohol, Tobacco, E-Cigarettes, or Snuff where You've referenced Marijuana ?

Would any caring Parent, truly want to endorse, their Child partaking in their daily Consumption ?
I would suggest, probably not !

Moderation, is the Key, to anyone's Healthy Lifestyle !
No matter, what your Age is .
Hopefully, as a Parent, We're successful in instilling that approach to Life in our Children ?

You very rarely hear of a Tragic Story, where the influence of Marijuana was involved ?
Yet, Alcohol has been the root cause, of too many Tragedies to count . And, it's still widely accepted by our Society, as Ok .

I'm going to have to assume, You have very little personal experience with Marijuana, to make such a broad Statement about It ?

Cheers

I think you are missing my point. I am only saying that just because marijuana has medicinal uses does not make it healthy to use recreationally. If alcohol had common medicinal uses I would say the same for it. And in my original post I included both alcohol and marijuana as examples of failures on the governments part to provide proper oversight on our health. And instead they will allow the public to purchase these products so that they can collect tax dollars. This was the purpose of your original post after all to point out " Government Oversight On Your Health, Gone Wrong Again". I am agreeing with you and giving you other examples of government failure.

And btw, I did use marijuana when in university and it made me feel so stunned the next day that I eventually stopped using it. My degree was in Comp Sci and I needed all my wits to do as well as I did.

JD