Heath Ledger's death has been ruled an accidental overdose of legal prescription drugs. He father believes it should serve as a wake up call.
(SALEM, Ore.) - The father of Hollywood actor Heath Ledger is asking Americans to pay closer attention to the use of prescription drugs in the wake of a coroner's confirmation that the Brokeback Mountain star lost his life to an accidental overdose.
It is a truly desperate picture that we face as a society that attacks the use of natural medical treatments like medical marijuana, even going so far as to demonize the people who use it to seek relief from sickness and disease, while adopting and allowing slick potions hatched in dollar-driven laboratories to choke the life out of people.
While the federal government refuses to budge and recognize the individual rights of states on the matter, they have in recent years endorsed one new pharmaceutical drug after another with no thought at all toward public safety.
The people who allow these new practices at the government level are killers.
Because aside from Phen Phen diet pills, Vioxx and Oxycontin, the ones that out and out kill people, these doctors know that more people die from overdoses of the drugs they prescribe than anyone wants to know.
Tens of thousands of people lose their lives each year from complications that arise from pharmaceutical drugs they are legally prescribed.
Marijuana goes on with its illegal status. Doctors with half a brain know that medical marijuana is a safe bet. People who don't want to smoke it can use a vaporizer or they can eat it.
Heath Ledger's father stated through his son's publicist: "Heath’s accidental death serves as a caution to the hidden dangers of combining prescription medication, even at low dosage."
The statement was made just minutes after the chief Medical Examiner of New York, Charles Hirsch, confirmed the cause of death.
"Mr Ledger died as the result of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine," Hirsch said.
"We have concluded that the manner of death is accident, resulting from the abuse of prescription medications."
Well America, you can't die from an overdose of marijuana, it is physically impossible and that is a fact. If those who disagree can prove otherwise, contact the Marijuana Policy Project in San Francisco or the group NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and tell them you want the twenty five thousand dollar standing offer to anyone who can attribute a death to marijuana use.
One word for the wise is that when the anti-marijuana folks try to turn out information they are frequently dishonest, blatantly, because they are out of excuses, and they know there are real and true medical benefits in cannabis.
Like many in political power, they simply make it up as they go. One argument they wage is that some people who died had marijuana in their systems, but there is always something else that caused the death and marijuana happened to be in their systems as well.
So when you think about this young rising Hollywood star so promising and so vibrant, consider that the drugs and practices your federal government approves and stands behind undoubtedly had a hand in killing him.
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