Sometimes, after listening to the opposition to marijuana reform talk about how the original OMMP was supposed to be about cancer and AID patients and then try to claim it isnt - pretending that marijuana activists pulled the wool over their eyes, I like to pull out my old articles where I show that it actually IS about precisely those people - and it is a matter of them distorting perspective and statistics to try to scare you with big numbers that dont actually tell you anything about reality. The opposition is well-known for distorting reality to paint scary pictures to prevent positive reform. Just in case any one wasnt aware - there are actual statistics on the number of patients that suffer from each of the conditions specified under OMMP and if we look at the number of AIDS patients in Oregon, for instance, and then look at the number of OMMP patients that site AIDS as a qualifying condition, we find that quite a few AIDS patients ARE using the OMMP program. Any VALID data comparison looks at the RATE, not the specific numbers, so this is the CORRECT way to view the data (and how they would view it if it were any other topic - see any article/study on the rate of marijuana users - rarely do they even quantify how many people it actually is because the number is irrelevant - it is the proportion that is relevant). Using Oregon data I wrote this article in 2012 to see how many of the Oregon AIDS and cancer patients were taking advantage of the program, and what I found was that opponents were wrong - and not just a little bit but COMPLETELY wrong: ***** Analysis of OMMP data demonstrates that only 4.5% of qualifying pain patients use the OMMP, yet 11% of cancer patients and nearly 15% of AIDS patients use the program, despite claims by opponents to OMMP. *****
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 07:46:46 +0000
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