Add It Up: Chronic Pain
September 22, 2008 at 5:00 am by Andisheh Nouraee in Add it upPounds of marijuana seized during recent bust of “Gulf Cartel” drug ring in Atlanta: 51,147
At $200 per ounce, estimated cash value of marijuana seized: $163,670,400
Number of plastic bags required to sell seized marijuana in quarter-ounce portions: 3.27 million
At 85 joints per ounce, number of joints that can be rolled with 51,147 pounds of pot: 69,559,920
Number of Americans, out of 10, who report they regularly suffer physical pain: 4
Percent of those who say they’ve used marijuana to treat pain: 6
Percent of those who say they’ve used prescription drugs to treat pain: 60
Lowest price for one 40mg pill of narcotic painkiller Oxycontin at Drugstore.com: $6.47
At $200 per ounce of marijuana, the cost of a joint: $2.35
Sources: Atlanta Business Chronicle, Marijuana.com, National Families in Action, Drugstore.com, ABCNews, USA Today and the Stanford University Medical Center
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