Russ Kamer

Primary care physician. Co-founder of Partners In Safety.

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

🚨 New research in @ijdrugpolicy estimates ~5,000 U.S. roadway deaths each year are actually caused by marijuana—not just crashes where drivers tested THC-positive. The study uses CDC attributable risk method.
🔗 https://t.co/IzrhqYlIA5
#RoadSafety #cannabis

[katherine kage @KageKatherine]

@GovKathyHochul Why do people need to drink alcohol to watch an early morning sports event?

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

@Kasparov63 TOUCH MOVE

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

@Wilson__Valdez And smokes dope all day long

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

@madras_bertha NORML’s goal used to be keeping pot users out of jail. Now they pretend to be a science journal, constantly repeating and spinning shoddy research findings.

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

One of many reasons for the high cost of healthcare. It’s not just the cost of the meds, it’s the scans, office visits, etc. And for little or no real benefit.

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

.@AKECassels, author of “Selling Sickness,” says his entire view of medicine changed 30 years ago because of one disease: osteoporosis.

In the early 1990s, “a major pharmaceutical company in the US created a new drug to treat this condition—osteoporosis—which at that point wasn't very well understood. In fact, there wasn't really an agreed upon definition,” he says.

Representatives from pharmaceutical companies and doctors convened at the WHO and decided which level of bone density ought to be considered "normal."

“They set it at a certain level, in a way that…diagnosed something like 50% of the female population over 70 with having this condition…Basically overnight this portion of the population that has bone density below this now has this condition called osteoporosis.”

They effectively “medicalized normal aging of the basically entire female population. Overnight,” he says.

The company that marketed the drug donated bone density testing equipment to hospitals and clinics. Many millions of American women were prescribed a blockbuster drug against osteoporosis. And it turns out that that drug, when taken over several years, “actually makes people’s bones more brittle, more prone to breaking,” he says.

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

@HempMillionaire @AlexBerenson Read the paper, millionaire. You probably believe it when CDC says 178,000 deaths from alcohol due to all reason. This article counts weed deaths using same method that CDC uses to count alcohol deaths.

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

Weed is not medicine.

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

https://t.co/DuGVmBswj0

[Smart Approaches to Marijuana @learnaboutsam]

President Trump, they promised you. Keep your promise to them. Don't reschedule marijuana.

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

@AubreeAdams4

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

🚨 New research in @ijdrugpolicy estimates ~5,000 U.S. roadway deaths each year are actually caused by marijuana—not just crashes where drivers tested THC-positive. The study uses CDC attributable risk method.
🔗 https://t.co/IzrhqYlIA5
#RoadSafety #cannabis

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

“Baby boomers fond memories of their college years shouldn’t guide drug policy.” The New York Post

[Cameron B @CameronBats]

@setu_ai_expert Not for this. Marijuana is a toxic substance - adding another toxic substance on the road, at work, in schools and in public is simply not a good idea.

[maria korynsel @korynsel4728]

@CarlHigbie Can someone plz tell Mike Tyson he done smoked to much cannabis!!! That interview with Greta was so ridiculous and honestly hard to watch

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

@greta Thanks for your anti-pot segment showing a person impaired by marijuana. But, you fell for the myth that weed users drive slowly. While it’s true in a lab they drive 1 or 2 mph more slowly, in real life, pot smokers speed and kill people.

[Authentic Medicine @authenticmed]

NPR sucks. Read this: Are Doctors Really Moving to Canada? What an embarrassing piece by @BrettKelman

They should defund NPR just for this article alone!

https://t.co/40P9e5Op3T

[Warren English @TheWarEnglish]

Weed is the most glorified drug in the world.

But as a former pharmacist who's seen the real effects, I'll be direct:

It's poison for the body & mind.

Here are 8 reasons I don't touch it — and why you shouldn't either:

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

https://t.co/lHc9KG8roT

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

“The president’s views on cannabis have softened somewhat in recent years, Mr. Gaetz said, but Mr. Trump, a teetotaler, remains ‘totally intolerant’ of any policy shift that ‘he believes will increase drug use.’”

[PopPot NY @PoppotNewYork]

As the @nytimes reports, the window of time to reschedule marijuana is getting smaller and smaller. Looks like it will never happen and we're happy about that.

[Russ Kamer @RussKamer]

@AlexBerenson The USPTF guidelines recommend against PSA tests in men over 70, though most doctors do it anyway.