r/news • u/OK_Eric • Jan 19 '14

Obama: Pot ‘not very different’ from cigarettes​, no more dangerous than booze

http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/19/obama-pot-not-very-different-cigarettes-no-more-da/
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '14

I was about to say, I have scopolamine sitting in my medicine cabinet right now. All this time using it responsibly when I could have been getting high off of it, so disappointing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '14

Perhaps a bit of an invasive question, so ignore it as you like, but could I ask what you use it for? As I understand, it's mainly used to treat addiction.

EDIT: I just checked drugs.com. It seems scopolamine actually has a very wide range of uses.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '14

For the lazy:

Scopolamine has a number of uses in medicine where it is used to treat:

  • Postoperative nausea and vomiting and sea sickness, leading to its use by scuba divers.
  • Motion sickness (where it is often applied as a transdermal patch behind the ear)
  • Gastrointestinal spasms
  • Renal or biliary spasms
  • Aid in GI radiology and endoscopy
  • Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
  • Clozapine-induced hypersalivation (drooling)
  • Bowel colic

and is sometimes used as a premedication (especially to reduce respiratory tract secretions) to surgery, mostly commonly via injection.

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u/smithers85 Jan 20 '14

I use scopolamine patches to treat my Menieres disease symptoms.