I don’t smoke pot and I never have. I’ve never knowingly broken a law in my adult life.
But the War on Drugs directly and profoundly impacts people in chronic pain and I’m against it.
As another poster so succinctly put it, “It appears that the war on drugs has been a 40 year flop.” By all counts, this is true.
When innocent people are treated like criminals - when a patient can’t even get a doctor to run tests for back pain because the complaint of back pain automatically labels them an ‘addict’ - we’re a nation that’s lost it’s collective mind.
And it angers me the most when ‘liberty-loving’ conservatives use the same ‘for the children’ argument that liberty-stealing socialists use to take away MY right to pain management.
The DEA and the federal government are out of control.
Leave it up to the states. At least that way, I’d have a place to go to get help.
Thanks, Federal Government, for protecting me from myself!
I hope you can find a legitimate doctor that’s not afraid to have a look at your chronic pain then. I think whatever risk there is in going to one in Texas now would be worth it, if the pain is as bad as I can imagine. And I hope you feel better.