ThisIsIt wrote:
windschatten wrote:
Insurers are not only risk adverse, they have also done their homework: https://www.nature.com/articles/npp201467
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/16/5529
These are only TWO of many studies showing how Cannabis alters brain chemistry....and behavior, and probably predisposition to certain neurodegenerative disorders.
I am sure all these mind-alterations are for the better, and that we are smarter than nature, who decided to NOT overuse these pathways.
And I am not even touching on the widespread abuse of ADHD drugs and amphetamines healthy kids are getting to pop.
You think the current opioid 'crisis' is bad?
Just lean back and enjoy the ride!
So life insurance companies know people are dying prematurely from neurological changes associated with pot smoking?
Really you think pot smoking is going to rival the opioid problems? Given that you can’t OD on pot? And there’s no injection, which causes a lot of the chronic health issues with opioid use, with pot either?
What insurance companies know is statistics. I'm sure somewhere in the data it shows that life expectancy among pot smokers is lower (for whatever reasons) than the general populace or they wouldn't be doing turning away them as customers.