Responses to Comments and a Proposed Study of Alcoholic Beverages
[ed. note: Michael Jorrin, who I call Doc Gumshoe, is a longtime medical writer (not a doctor) who writes for us about medicine and health a couple times a month. He has agreed to our trading and disclosure restrictions, but does not generally write directly about investment ideas. His ideas, thoughts and words are his […]
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I respect anyone’s right to invest, or not, in any stock, etc, but my first thought is what is the difference between ...
You got it backwards. It is the prohibitionists that cost us HUGE amounts of money. You are also confused about who is ...
Altria is a great business. The fact that some won't invest in it because they sell tobacco, alcohol and cannabis means...
Exercise. Exercise long and hard and often. If you do this it will add more years to your life than it uses. If your...
IPO I am anxiously awaiting is Province Brands (Cannabis Beer). what is special about them is while others make beer, r...
Doesn't OTSI focus alcohol and tobacco rather than trading? Sounds like you do have good trading knowledge and experienc...
Funny alcohol never made it to "the medicinal." People get some clever "feelings" off it. Now they both here went thru...
Addiction is at the heart of many successful investments, to be sure, whether you call anything a “vice” depends on ...
Addictive products, and there are many legal ones, are normally great financial investments. Alcohol, drugs, coffee, etc...
The marijuana stock pushers never talk about the drug--- Recreational marijuana carries the same intoxication risks as a...
Recreational marijuana carries the same intoxication risk as alcohol. There is about a ten percent addiction rate. It ...
I had an interesting conversation with a coworker that was a retired ambulance driver for 35 years. He told me in his ...
Being a long time consumer of cannabis (50 yrs) and watching these events taking place has enlightened my heart. Back i...
Thanks, great discussion. I am focused on socially conscious investing so am screening my cannabis buys with that in min...
Well, my first opinion since becoming a member. I like the CBD market right now. Legal everywhere. NBEV is looking go...
Hello all! Exciting right? I’ve been in pot stocks for about 18 months. Have made a great haul, but positions have gen...
Well, I have heard that humans spend about 6 months of their average lifetime laughing, and I'd like to add a day or two...
blozf isn't in market of marijuana, they are attempting to create a machine to tell % in your body. Like police use to...
I've set aside my "Vegas money" for playing the cannabis story. Much easier to potentially lose money sitting here at t...
The recent news that has made pot stocks soar has been the announcement by two beer companies, Constellation Brands and ...
the same people who support alcoholic beverage companies are going to invest in mj companies. If you think that drinking...
Science Magazine also talked about the ETOH proposed study .Several big name universities implicated in the corruption ...
Hiku didn’t take over weed md they merged by way of profit sharing with weed md getting the higher Pct of profit shari...
Has anyone looked at BICX. They claim to have a novel way of providing medication for an extended time period 1 1/2 mont...
Cessation of smoking, the consumption of alcohol and elimination of unnecessary carbohydrates comes to mind. Did I ment...
2014-2017 > Gun Violence Statistics http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls It'd be interesting to view stats wi...
if you think alcohol, cocaine and opioids are safer you must be on one of those.Those are addictive drugs...
22,000 opioid related deaths last year. How is that safer than the weed? Alcohol destroys your liver, cannot say the sam...
Apple of Pot? Two comments-- 1. Pot grows really, really well. Anyone can do it, and in Oregon there is a surplus; p...
Cannabis control has issued over 300 licenses here in CA. It will take about a year to smooth out any wrinkles according...
I will go to Chinatown and pick up a couple of bottles of GanManLing, mahalo! I am also beginning to believe in the won...
Current 2018 US Death Toll: Abortion - 137,080 Tobacco -43,934 Obesity - 38.537 Medical Error - 31,565 Alcohol - 12...
Penny, I gather that you live somewhere in the mountains outside of Denver, possibly near Bailey or Evergreen. Anyway ...
I've done a fair bit of DD on a number of companies in the sector. I believe ACB and WEED will be Ford and Chevy of the...
Blind Squirrel, If a good man who has given me good knowledgeable advice and support has had problems--all the more rea...
Most of the potheads I knew that died didn't die of cancer. They died of liver disease from alcohol. It's a horrible d...
A lot of deliberate spike with every new milestone making for good advertising. Truth is not much in hard going traffic ...
I’ve never found a cannabis stock whose financials made sense to me, so have never owned one — though in the long ru...
All true...and probably a reason Eurodrinking, quote and quote, which is more like sustained consumption of modest amoun...
$alcohol -- For the periodic convo on alcohol consumption and health, a new paper in Nature: "Alcohol and endogenous al...
Doc, apart from the questionable source, is there any validity to the idea of having the body burn fat for energy? I ...
I once had a nurse practitioner who had an entrepreneurial hobby with her husband. One day I learned from overhearing it...
$NOTicker - Roger, I appreciate your effort to stay away from companies who don't line up with your morals. I sort of ga...
I agree with you. I would add food,sex, and gambling to the list. I am all for individuals making money any way they w...
$Cannabis I'm not sure if my post went through since I was booted to the log in screen. Sorry if this is a repost. ...
#VIA Small Cap Traders this a.m. Good day traders, We wanted to bring you more information regarding Citius Pharmac...
$alcohol and health My understanding of these findings is that that the alcohol-cancer link occurs with heavy continu...
$Alcohol $Cancer A Lancet Editorial - Alcohol and Cancer Published: 18 November 2017 The Nov 7 publication of A...
Also when we take antibiotics due to illness, what do they do to the biom. I just did a Whole 30 diet after seeing what...
Big alcohol will buy out canopy eventually. And the shareholders will walk away with a lot of cash....
#Conference Call I LOVE Friday's CC (can listen for hours), BUT I and don't think it HAS to be Monthly. I think the ca...
OK, I've got a bit of experience here as we've toyed with doing a start-up in this exact space for the past couple years...
$CWRB et al Beautifully written, Coyote, as ever. A couple of observations. 1. My membership of this forum woul...
CANNABIS OIL, WITH THC NOT CBD IN LARGE DOSES WILL DEFINITELY WEAN AN ADDICT OFF OF OPIODS, REIEVE PAIN AND THE MENTAL ...
diane Thank you for mentioning the suicide angle. I have personal knowledge of 3 who killed themselves for relentless pa...
I agree with Todd. There are subsets that don.t fit that model however. A large number have mental problems that could b...
It does mean rather a lot. If he can genuinely abstain for 30 days, he's not an alcoholic. And it's quite possible he is...
NoTicker Helen - I love my glass of pinot and envy you all the world class bars. Doc post got me thinking and I will be...
$ZFGN $MNKD Morning, everyone. Three small things. One: I got the impression on the call, Doc, that while you are ...
Hi Yelpik - It is not about finding a substitute for carbs. It's about completely reevaluating your diet and finding a n...
Comment Link: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/2017/06/oncotutorial/comment-page-21/#comment-4948123 Author: Roger Comment...
In the past while practicing meditation I gave up alcohol for 3 months. At this time of my life, 87, I enjoy a beer or ...
"Everybody, I mean, everybody, needs to do the following once a year. Set aside one calendar month, and go without drink...
#alcohol Wow have to try this, would be a shocker if I couldn't go a month. Could I be an "occult alcoholic" got to ma...
Everybody, I mean, everybody, needs to do the following once a year. Set aside one calendar month, and go without drinki...
I notice that thumbdown truth haters are at work . if you don't like fact perhaps you need help. You can be sure many po...
I noted that Drs. have access to drugs while LLBs. have access to alcohol. Better intelligence helps someone find love,...
Redsox, Get well; we need all the talented law professors and lawyers we can get. The market was better today--at last...
Please permit me a small peek from the street or pavement philosophy.Mystical,,, gut feeling,,, intuition,,, wisdom of a...
$Alcohol Just watched a good documentary on Netflix – “The Truth About Alcohol”. It was done in England, nothing ...
Hi allison: No, I agree with them. Sounds as if you have a wicked problem. Do keep in mind, however, the particular phys...
( D) Illicit would cover tobacco and alcohol before 18 or 21 in some states...
D. Tobacco and alcohol are illicit for that age group!...
Well, if alcohol were a drug, I'd say close to 100%. But aside from that, this includes even something like taking left...
C, but if alcohol is included probably D...
Stats I've seen have been in the high 30's for cannabis. I'm thinking C for an answer. One very clear trend has been a ...
No Ticker: Roger, I had the joy of making a new friend at the music festival this weekend. He is a heart transplant re...
Thanks Doc Oxytocin release today has been good with anxiety levels near zero and total bliss achieved without drug or ...
Mr. Jorrin's fine article danced around one obvious fact of alcohol - it's a drug. Some brave cultures have even begun...
Doc Gumshoe: I really enjoyed your alcohol study epistle. Carefully crafted. Population studies on a variety of subje...
At the age of 47 my doctor had given me papers for a living will. I will add nothing more. A power greater than myself ...
Many, many thanks to Dr KSS for his comments about the hepatic effects of alcohol in women!!!...
Dr. KSS, do you have an opinion on Dihydromyricetin (Hovenia Dulcis) as a oral antidote to some of the negative affects ...
Male and female livers are cardinally different: multiple studies of large cohorts of women, particularly in Scandinavia...
$OPNT I wasn't able to find any previous discussion on Opiant Pharmaceuticals which is up 50% the last week. Has OPN00...
Sinclair method/naltrexone You guys keep asking questions about addiction that I feel compelled to comment on. The cor...
Doc, have you any familiarity with the Sinclair method for treating alcohol use disorder involving the use of naltrexone...
I've never heard of antidepressants being implicated in overdose deaths when combined with opiates and can't really see ...
The disease of addiction has followed me my entire life. My mother suffered from alcoholism. It caused major pain and dy...
The really important news in all this tax grab legalization, is not for the pot heads, or our Lords of State, but for th...
rsmattis It is always great to hear from someone having similar experiences treating opioid use disorders. I also see l...
I come at the abuse arena from a slightly different view. I work occasionally in a Suboxone clinic. We would never use...
7.3.17 JohnM $ALKS Alkermes’ anti-addiction drug naltrexone was prescribed for years to help alcoholics kick the bot...
This issue with ALKS came up a couple of weeks ago in the previous thread with a link to a similar article. Is there a w...
$ALKS Alkermes' anti-addiction drug naltrexone was prescribed for years to help alcoholics kick the bottle. The company ...
Doc In re berberine et al Huang Lian ,gold thread. In early Oregon people would travel 100's of miles by horse to seek t...
Gumjax: My heart goes out to you. I am saddened. But I'd like to see you get treated and that IS what I'd do. One of my ...
DR KSS I am seldom rendered speechless,,, you have succeeded. Bowel cancer. 1. Toxins ingested, alcohol, tobacco, afla...
The bup implant has just failed to catch on. The concerns I have and that others share on the forum I frequent include ...