THE TOXICOLOGY REPORTS IN REGARD TO PRINCE’S DEATH HAVE BEEN
RELEASED.
WE KNOW HE DIED OF A DRUG OVERDOSE.
HE SPECIFICALLY OVERDOSED ON FENTANYL WHICH IS AN OPIATE
PAINKILLER THAT IS USUALLY INJECTED.
THIS STORY IS RELEVANT TODAY, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU
CONSIDER THE FACT THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME
THE DEATH RATE IN THE UNITED STATES
HAS RISEN.
THERE ARE THREE REASONS RESEARCHERS ARE FACTORING IN.
THE FIRST REASON IS DRUG OVERDOSES, SPECIFICALLY
RELATED TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND HEROINE.
THE SECOND REASON HAS TO DO WITH HEART DISEASE.
IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE HAVE SEEN AN UPTICK IN DEATHS
RELATED TO HEART DISEASE, BUT WE ARE SEEING IT NOW.
AND FINALLY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED FROM
ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA.
THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT NOW WE KNOW A LITTLE MORE ABOUT
THAT CONDITION.
IT IS REPORTED MORE.
BUT REALLY THE MAIN ISSUE HERE IS THE NUMBER OF
PRESCRIPTION DRUG OVERDOSES AND HEROINE OVERDOSES.
>> WE TALKED OFTEN ABOUT LEGALIZING DRUGS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LEGALIZE IT IS
THAT DRUG USE GOES DOWN, NOT UP.
OBVIOUSLY YOU
GET A HIGH FROM IT, THAT IS WHY PEOPLE DO IT.
IT'S NOT WORTH IT.
PRINCE HAD EVERYTHING.
HE WAS INCREDIBLY WEALTHY AND FAMOUS.
HE COULD DO WHATEVER HE WANTED, BUT NOW HE IS DEAD BECAUSE
HE GOT HOOKED ON ONE THING AND HE COULDN'T BEAT IT.
>> WE ARE ABOUT TO GET TO THE MARIJUANA COMPONENT OF THE
STORY.
BEFORE WE DO I WANT TO ADDRESS THE WHOLE THING ABOUT HIM
HAVING EVERYTHING AND BEING ON TOP OF THE WORLD.
I THINK THERE IS A MISCONCEPTION THAT IF YOU HAVE A
TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF WEALTH AND FAME YOU HAVE IT ALL AND
YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY.
OFTENTIMES A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THAT POSITION AND
THAT GETTING SUPER DEPRESSED OR END UP DEALING WITH SEVERE
EMOTIONAL ISSUES.
THEY ARE NOT DOING IT TO EXPERIMENT AND HAVE FUN,
THEY ARE DOING IT TO ESCAPE FROM SOMETHING.
I REALIZE THAT.
SOME PEOPLE USE OPIATES, SOME MARIJUANA.
I WOULD MUCH RATHER HAVE PEOPLE USE MARIJUANA, WHICH YOU
CANNOT OVERDOSE ON THAN USE OPIATES.
THERE WAS AN UNBELIEVABLE STUDY DONE RECENTLY THAT LOOKED
AT MARIJUANA AND SOME OF THE LONG-TERM RISKS ASSOCIATED
WITH IT.
THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE MEDICAL RESEARCH ON MARIJUANA
HAD BEEN BASICALLY STOPPED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
NOW THAT MORE STUDIES ARE COMING OUT, WE KNOW WHAT THE RISKS ARE.
HERE IS WHAT THE RESEARCHERS AT DUKE LOOKED AT.
WHAT'S INCREDIBLE IS THERE WERE SOME HEALTH ISSUES.
BUT NOT THE HEALTH ISSUES YOU WOULD EXPECT.
WHAT
YOU THINK OF SMOKING MARIJUANA, YOU THINK IT'S
GOING TO HAVE SOME IMPACT ON YOUR CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH.
THAT IS NOT THE CASE, BASED ON THIS STUDY.
THERE IS A LIMITATION TO THIS.
KEEP IN MIND THAT THESE HEALTH ISSUES COULD COME UP LATER
IN LIFE. 38 IS STILL REALLY YOUNG.
WHEN PEOPLE SMOKE MARIJUANA EVERY DAY, THEY DON'T SMOKE
AT THE SAME WAY YOU SMOKE CIGARETTES.
SOME MARIJUANA USERS JUST SMOKE A LITTLE BIT.
IT COULD TAKE LONGER FOR THOSE HEALTH RAMIFICATIONS TO SHOW UP.
NONETHELESS, I STILL THINK THIS
IS INTERESTING.
>>JUST DO EDIBLES THEN YOU WON'T GET GUM DISEASE.
>> I THINK IT IS RELEVANT.
MARIJUANA USERS ARE NOT AS GOOD ABOUT FLOSSING AND BRUSHING
THEIR TEETH.
AND THEY ARE LIKE, THAT COULD CONTRIBUTE TO IT BUT WE ARE
NOT SURE.
I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR IF YOU DON'T BRUSH AND FLOSS YOUR
TEETH YOU WILL HAVE GUM DISEASE.
>> BEING A SLACKER LEADS TO DOING MARIJUANA AND GUM DISEASE.
BUT TO GET BACK TO TYING ALL THESE STORIES TOGETHER.
I THINK OVERDOING ANYTHING IS A BAD IDEA.
I WOULD JUST BE CAREFUL ABOUT DOING MARIJUANA ALL THE TIME.
NOT FOR ALL THE SCARE TACTICS THAT THEY TELL YOU, BUT
BECAUSE DOING ANYTHING TO YOUR BRAIN THAT MUCH IS AN ISSUE.
YOU SHOULD ALSO BE CAREFUL ABOUT OVER DRINKING.
IN TERMS OF THE
SCARE TACTICS THEY HAVE USED ñ IN THAT STUDY, HOW MANY PEOPLE
ARE THE ONES THAT SMOKE MARIJUANA ALL THE TIME, HOW MANY OF
THEM OVERDOSED?
>>ZERO.
>>OH, THAT'S RIGHT.
WHAT THEY TELL YOU ABOUT HOW YOUR BRAIN MELTING.
IT IS A LITTLE LIKE BEER, BUT DEFINITELY A LITTLE BETTER.
IT HAS LESS HEALTH RAMIFICATIONS, YOU ARE LESS
LIKELY TO GET IN A CAR ACCIDENT, YOU'RE LESS LIKELY TO DIE.
PEOPLE OVERDOSE FROM ALCOHOL, THEY DON'T OVERDOSE FROM
MARIJUANA.
IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD DO IT EVERY DAY?
IT CERTAINLY DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD DO THE HARDER DRUGS.
YOU SHOULD BE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE THE HARDER DRUGS
YOU CAN GET ADDICTED TO AND IT HAS TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES.
>> IT HAPPENS WITH BRETT FAVRE.
HE WAS ON PRESCRIPTION PAINKILLERS.
HAPPENS TO A LOT OF ATHLETES, MUSICIANS, PEOPLE THAT TORE
OBVIOUSLY.
BUT THEN WHEN PEOPLE GO TO DOCTORS THEY SAY I TAKE
SOME PAIN MEDICATION.
SOMETIMES THERE IS THIS SENSE THAT WE CAN TO BE IN ANY
LEVEL OF PAIN.
SO WHEN SOMEONE HAS A SLIGHT PAIN THEY THINK OH SHIT I
HAVE TO TAKE SOME PILLS.
WHEN PEOPLE HAVE SERIOUS PAIN, INSTEAD OF FIXING THE PROBLEM
ñ PAIN IS FOR A REASON.
THERE IS A REASON YOU FEEL THINGS.
THIS WEIRD THING ABOUT NOT BEING ABLE TO FEEL.
IF YOU LIKE THAT IS A CONDITION.
IF YOU CAN FEEL SOMETHING IT IS A PROBLEM BECAUSE YOUR BODY
TELLS YOU SOMETHING IS WRONG SO YOU CAN FIX IT.
IF YOU DON'T FEEL THAT YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP FUCKING
YOURSELF UP.
>> THAT IS A GOOD POINT.
I HAVE A GREAT IDEA FOR WHAT WE CAN CALL YOUR SLOGAN, NO
PAIN, NO GAIN.
AS ANYBODY THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE?
JAYAR BRINGS UP A GREAT POINT.
YOU SHOULD BE FAR MORE CONCERNED ABOUT PRESCRIPTION
PAINKILLERS THAN MARIJUANA.
I AM VERY CONCERNED ANYTIME THEY WANT TO GIVE PAINKILLERS TO
MY KIDS, MY WIFE, ETC.
EVEN AFTER SURGERY I WAS WORRIED
ABOUT HOW MANY PAINKILLERS THEY WERE GIVING MY FIVE-YEAR-OLD.
THE CHANCES YOU'RE GOING TO GET HOOKED ON PRESCRIPTION
PAINKILLERS ñ YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT GATEWAY DRUGS?
PRESCRIPTION PAINKILLERS ARE 1000
TIMES MORE OF A GATEWAY DRUG TO HARDER DRUGS THAN MARIJUANA.
THAT IS INDISPUTABLE.
>>WE ARE SEEING IT PLAY OUT RIGHT NOW WHERE AS SOON AS THE
GOVERNMENT CLAMPED DOWN ON THE OVER PRESCRIPTION OF OPIOIDS,
THEY TURNED TO THE BLACK MARKET AND GOT HOOKED ON HEROIN.
IS A GATEWAY DRUG.
WE ARE SEEING IT PLAY OUT IN THIS COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.
>>BUT MARIJUANA SINCE IT IS NOT LEGAL, THERE ARE NOT MAKING
MONEY OFF OF IT, GIANT CORPORATIONS, BUT PRESCRIPTION
DRUGS ARE LEGAL SO PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO TOUCH THAT.
YOU MAKE MONEY OFF OF IT, THAT GRAVY TRAIN DOES NOT HAVE
AN END DESTINATION.
IT KEEPS GOING ROUND AND ROUND.