Sen. Warren Making Dangerous Enemies By Threatening Drug Companies' $200 Billion Profit Machine [Picture, Video]

Opiod drug abus is running rampant nationwide–overdoses are clogging ERs and morgues.  Senator Elizabeth Warren wants the CDC to consider ways to use medical marijuana to stop thos plague.  The Guardian writes:

Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to consider the role legal marijuana could play in the prescription opioid epidemic.

Warren asked for more research into medical marijuana and painkiller addiction in a letter to the CDC director, Thomas Friedan.

“Opioid abuse is a national concern and warrants swift and immediate action,” Warren One thng you can be sure of: the phamaceutical industry and its minionsi  CDC and the medica establshment will oppose the measure, kickicking and screaming. aand their lobbyists in Congress will go agter Warren like a pack of jackels.wrote.

Drug companies have been making millions from the drug war and they are not about to lose this cash cow.

Do you honestly think the pharmaceutical industry is going to allow legal pot to threaten its $200 billion business?  People have died for threatening big business.  Is this going to become the next drug war? 

Prescription drug costs are indeed high—and rising fast. Americans now spend a staggering $200 billion a year on prescription drugs, and that figure is growing at a rate of about 12 percent a year. [1] Drugs are the fastest-growing part of the health care bill—which itself is rising at an alarming rate. The increase in drug spending reflects, in almost equal parts, the facts that people are taking a lot more drugs than they used to, that those drugs are more likely to be expensive new ones instead of older, cheaper ones, and that the prices of the most heavily prescribed drugs are routinely jacked up, sometimes several times a year.  source