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American Medical Association delegates
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Posted By: Beardo, 6/18/2024 3:14:47 PM

The American Medical Association's House of Delegates Thursday voted 345-171 to decriminalize drug personal use and possession. (snip) The AMA report said decriminalization proponents cite several benefits of no longer criminalizing drug use and possession. Among them are saving money on incarceration, focusing resources on treatment and social services and reducing the stigma of drug use and having a substance abuse disorder.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Beardo 6/18/2024 3:24:26 PM (No. 1739542)
FTA: "The AMA report said decriminalization proponents cite several benefits of no longer criminalizing drug use and possession. Among them are saving money on incarceration, focusing resources on treatment and social services and reducing the stigma of drug use and having a substance abuse disorder." What am I missing here? How does this argument make any sense?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Beardo 6/18/2024 3:30:06 PM (No. 1739545)
Sorry, I mis-spoke. The following argument FTA is what makes no sense to me: "The war on drugs is quite reminiscent of the phrase, 'The beatings will continue until morale improves,'" said AMA Connecticut delegate Ryan Englander. "We have tried for decades to criminalize our way out of a substance use crisis in this country, and it has not worked."
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Reply 3 - Posted by: reefdiver 6/18/2024 3:30:49 PM (No. 1739546)
No mention of the costs of lost work, deaths due to overdose, domestic abuse, treatment costs, and criminal activities.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: formerNYer 6/18/2024 3:54:35 PM (No. 1739561)
Soft drugs? Hard drugs? Didn't Oregon just try this and it failed misrably? We don't need to be putting in jail for pot, but crack, meth, roofies, fentanyl, NO!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Son of Grady 6/18/2024 4:01:12 PM (No. 1739568)
I don't know if the AMA House of Delegates are all liberals, but they are following a liberal platform of creating a problem and then spending billions of dollars to not fix anything but to keep the problem ongoing and generational.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mc squared 6/18/2024 4:03:04 PM (No. 1739569)
Seems drugs are already decriminalized in our cities. Users in the streets leaving needles for others.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: stablemoney 6/18/2024 4:10:35 PM (No. 1739573)
Another reason the AMA has a debauched reputation.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DanvilleBill 6/18/2024 4:10:53 PM (No. 1739574)
Libertarians rejoiced. Next AMA goal: legalize prostitution. Libertarians will love that too.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Catherine 6/18/2024 4:27:23 PM (No. 1739581)
There has been a war on drugs for over 50 years. We've lost it. Seems a better way could be found to deal with it. And to my way of thinking, alcohol is as dangerous as any drug but it's legal. Go figure. BTW, during prohibition my great grandfather had a still and a dance hall. That old man was rich as could be. He owned lots of houses and a lot of land before he died.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Bur Oak 6/18/2024 4:28:06 PM (No. 1739583)
The AMA did so well with their expertise during the Covid scare that we should now follow their advice. Okay, now do ivermectin and similar drugs over-the-counter. What, doctors would lose income? I see.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: marbles 6/18/2024 4:28:41 PM (No. 1739584)
Enlighten me , how are they empowered to make law?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 6/18/2024 4:30:46 PM (No. 1739585)
The AMA is an ass.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: volksford 6/18/2024 4:37:55 PM (No. 1739589)
This is par for the course from an outfit that condones trans gender surgery.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: privateer 6/18/2024 4:50:09 PM (No. 1739596)
I guess Obama promised to protect doctors from blame, liability, lawsuits or punishments for their part in the Great Dempanic. IF...they will help him destroy American society.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: LeeBertie 6/18/2024 4:57:53 PM (No. 1739600)
Maybe I missed it, but I saw no limitation on which drugs they voted to recommend decriminalizing. Heroin? Cocaine? Fentanyl? Any consideration to "first do no harm"? We are fortunate that whatever these bozos say makes no real-world importance.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: daisey 6/18/2024 5:05:52 PM (No. 1739606)
Glad I retired from nursing 3 years ago at 75. My friends who are still working say it’s not the same. Unrecognizable. Sad.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: BarryNo 6/18/2024 5:33:44 PM (No. 1739611)
Of course they did. They and their children are among the worst abusers. This way, when the pharmaceutical stocks are found missing, they'll only be charged with theft...
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Rumblehog 6/18/2024 5:45:51 PM (No. 1739615)
Even Medical Doctors don't belong to that leftist organization anymore. Every once great organization in America has been invaded and taken over by leftist political hacks to drive an agenda. Trust none of them.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Hazymac 6/18/2024 5:52:41 PM (No. 1739619)
After years of declining membership, the AMA's percentage of MDs and DOs (real doctors who practice medicine) who still belong is 30% or less. At one time long ago, the AMA was run by responsible doctors who weren't taken in by virtue signaling. Political correctness has ruined the AMA, the ABA ... many professional organizations. These talented, extremely well educated people are more interested in being well thought of than in being professionals.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 6/18/2024 6:02:02 PM (No. 1739622)
AMA normalizing criminal behavior. Democrats want the criminal vote, but felons cannot vote. Have to legalize criminal behavior. Our government is corrupt. Law abiding citizens won't participate in criminal behavior, but criminals will. The criminal element of society is sought after by a corrupt government. Criminals band together. Think of the drug cartels that employ thousands of criminals. Organized crime. It takes over governments. Criminal governments like centralized government. All that power in one place. Control everything.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Mushroom 6/18/2024 7:01:36 PM (No. 1739647)
By this logic, why should ANY drug be even regulated. You shouldn't have to be a doctor to allow the use of Ivermectin...heck, we give it to our animals. So Why do we need your lot around if recreational drugs aren't in need of control? Heck, what if I decide to take Ivermectin recreationally? Get off your high horse and note how your ranks are running away because you are just another left wing shill.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: DVC 6/18/2024 7:06:04 PM (No. 1739654)
OK, I want to get ivermectin and a bunch of antibiotics OTC.....what, that's not going be OK? Not going to legalize anything which doesn't create zombies?
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Reply 23 - Posted by: skacmar 6/18/2024 7:33:17 PM (No. 1739661)
Surprised that the liberal doctors aren't using the favorite tagline from the pro-abortion crowd: My body, my choice! If you choose to use lethal drugs and overdose, you are choosing to possibly die. Do not expect to be saved since it was your choice.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: smokincol 6/18/2024 8:36:40 PM (No. 1739676)
did they measure the size of these "American Medical Association delegates" when they were chosen to be a delegate, to see if it was the same size as a grain of salt?
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Reply 25 - Posted by: sleona 6/18/2024 8:44:35 PM (No. 1739680)
I am a physician. I used to be a member of the AMA. I stopped paying for membership many years ago because they were getting so liberal. I rarely agree with them any more. This is true of many professional organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Surgeons. The medical school I work for, the hospital where I practice, and the professional organization I still belong to are very woke. They are all celebrating pride month and promoting DEI every chance they get Thank goodness retirement is in my near future. (Don’t get me started on federal interference in practicing medicine!)
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Reply 26 - Posted by: WWIIDaughter 6/18/2024 10:11:00 PM (No. 1739695)
Follow the money. Maybe the delegates own funeral homes. Caskets are costly.
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Reply 27 - Posted by: WWIIDaughter 6/18/2024 10:14:48 PM (No. 1739696)
Just read down to the autopsy for a college kid who drowned with alcohol and drugs in his system. As noted previously, follow the money...sociopathic doctors voting to make more fatalities.
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Reply 28 - Posted by: JimBob 6/18/2024 10:54:26 PM (No. 1739700)
While they're at it, recommend decriminalizing murder, rape, assault, all forms of theft. Once that is enacted, the crime rates will drop significantly. Think of the money saved..... No-one will go to prison anymore, and we can save the cost of operating them!
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Reply 29 - Posted by: Trigger2 6/19/2024 2:15:50 AM (No. 1739721)
It's official. The AMA is a demonrat communist organization. Period. What happened to "Do No Harm?"
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Reply 30 - Posted by: Michaelus 6/19/2024 5:42:04 AM (No. 1739748)
Drugs like ivermectin?
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Reply 31 - Posted by: Venturer 6/19/2024 7:50:57 AM (No. 1739807)
Do away with prescriptions. Just go to the pharmacy and order any medicine you like. You think you are sick? Go to the computer and see what drug it says to use and go get it. We won't need Doctors. Most Doctors today are a waste of time anyway.
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Reply 32 - Posted by: franq 6/19/2024 8:38:11 AM (No. 1739829)
Indeed. This is akin to John McCain wanting to make OTC vitamins prescription-based. Money, incest, and corruption.
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Reply 33 - Posted by: cold porridge 6/19/2024 11:31:37 AM (No. 1739950)
" focusing resources on treatment and social services...." Proves the AMA just wants to increase it's ability to make money off the drug users. They don't care about the addicts, and they know you can't make an addict quit unless they want to. Its all for the money made by "treating" them.
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