“Is that clear enough? It’s only about you, if you’re a doper.”
That’s just not true.
I’ve never smoked pot. The first time I was prescribed pain medication I ended up in the ER with three doctors chuckling at me because I thought I was dying and I was only stoned.
I didn’t drink alcohol until I was 30.
I’m not a criminal at all. I should have a bumper sticker that reads, “Don’t be mad. If you’re behind me, you won’t get a ticket,” because I never speed.
But I’m seriously planning on killing myself soon because I’m in so much pain that I can’t stand it anymore. I just can’t keep going through this torture.
And there’s help. There’s relief, but I can’t have it because somebody is worried that somebody else might want that drug to get high.
Opoids are a dead-end road. You can only take them for so long before you build up a tolerance and they won’t help you any more.
I’m already tapped out on steroids. My bones can’t take any more and my immune system is at rock bottom. If you think steroids are the answer, then you might also think that AIDS is the answer for what they both do to your immune system.
Yes. I’m considering getting my medical marijuana prescription because it’s my last hope for life.
And I do want to live. I just want to LIVE. Not just exist.
I’m tired of being a burden. I’m tired of fighting. I can’t hurt any more.
Give me another option. Please.
No. Not just ‘dopers’ care about these laws. The laws have put sufferers into a box and we have no other place to go.
I honestly don’t care if anyone wants to get ‘high’ any more. I really don’t. Let them get stoned.
If it prevents the rest of us from suffering, so be it.
I’m not a ‘doper’. I’m not a drug abuser. I’ve never broken the law in my life.
And I’m about to give up my home to (legally) try medical marijuana as my last stop before I put a bullet in my brain and set my family free.
Many people have an interest in these laws and those people aren’t ‘dopers’. People with broken backs (like me), people with bone cancer, people with crippling arthritis and other debilitating diseases are hoping for relief.
I was a huge Drug Warrior and I didn’t stop until the WOD actually affected ‘me’. I really believed that if *I* were in trouble, the law would understand that *I* was an innocent who needed help and would see that it was provided.
So the Law and the doctors look at my incredible MRI’s, x-rays, and CT scans and say, “Wow. How are you ALIVE?!” But they won’t admit that I am in pain.
Doctors are terrified of pain patients. My daughter has no need for narcotics - she’s not in any pain - and she’s having trouble finding a new family doctor because they won’t take ANY new patients in fear that they’ll get a pain patient.
I was wrong. YOU are wrong. Please see that they don’t care if they’re cracking down on a leather-clad stoner or YOUR mother, the WOD does not discriminate. The Law sees people using ‘drugs’ (any drugs) as evil and cracks down on them.
And your mother will be left in the gutter as a casualty of the WOD.