This idiot author gets two things conflated.
Cannabis, which is simply a state’s rights issue, regardless of if someone wants to smoke, or not- and the war on people who need actual pain relief..
Like booze, the federal government should have zero role in what people put into their bodies; part of being an actual conservative is letting other people make their own choices with their lives, otherwise one is merely a socialist who ascribes to a different set of ‘do’s and don’ts’ than the Che shirt wearing twerp but is no better.
People should be able to access whatever they need to mitigate their pain; at a low cost and with practical assistance. Any government that expects its citizenry to live in chronic pain for years while denying and impeding things that could ease same should be overthrown as being just as vile any other dictatorship.
“...the federal government should have zero role in...”
It’s now a socialist/communist/fascist government.
“Like booze, the federal government should have zero role in what people put into their bodies; part of being an actual conservative is letting other people make their own choices with their lives,...”
Fine, but first you have to stop every dime of taxpayer funding of support for worthless lazy dope heads. They can’t work because they can’t pass a drug test, so about 20% or more of the population lives off their taxpaying neighbors.
I have been on pain meds for 10 yrs, it took six of those yrs to get the pain relief mix right. I take two different short term opiods 4 times a day, as well as gabapentin and lyrica for nerve damage. The pharmacist constantly questions why I take two lesser opiods instead or morphine. DOH, because I try to take the minimum dose I can. He also questions Lyrica and gabapentin.. DOH different receptors. The pharmacist is trying to reduce his customers on certain meds to show “progress” in reducing opiods under florida’s new guidelines. I also can’t get prescriptions early or more than a 30 day supply, And you must be physicallly present at your pain management doctor to get a prescription issued on paper, no over the phone renewals. So I’m tethered to the house, no two month road trips to visit the kids, or friends. And for those of you without high level chronic pain, consider yourself lucky. A day without my meds would be like a nail driven through my big toes and my legs recovering from burns at the same time.
I would disagree. A conservative also must use common sense and isn't above using govenment as a necessary evil in extreme cases. What you are describing is libertarianism or anarchy which in extreme cases are the same thing.
The war on drugs, of course, was a result of prohibition's repeal. FDR's administration felt it would be overly cruel to send those valuable federal employees out in a private sector suffering massive unemployment at the time, so a new opportunity was created. And with it, state soverignity was ursurped.
I agree. I have little time for these habitual control freaks who want to control everything Americans do. Just like the deranged Democrat control freaks. If someone is in pain, give them what they need for cripes sake.