Things like this shouldn't ever happen. The reason they do is because pretty much every human culture has Puritanical hangups about something, and Western hangups usually have to do with either sex or drugs.
Look. How about we start treating adults like adults? Sure, enforce the laws that keep mind-altering substances away from kids--their brain chemistry isn't set, so meddling with it is a bad idea--but how about letting adults choose what they want to put into their bodies? Let 'em deal with the consequences of their choices, and eventually, they'll either kill themselves, or stop hurting themselves. This goes for sex, food, and drink as well as drugs.
Right now, the main effect of the current incarnation of Prohibition is keeping pain remediation out of the hands of those that need it: either they're arrested for filling a prescription, or they can't get help because the doctors are afraid they'll be arrested for prescribing "too much" of a "controlled substance" to one individual.
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Grrr. Like DW's Doc's at our local clinic. "We can't do pain management here."
ReplyDeleteShe has Fibro. It's medically documented for 10 years. Give the woman some relief, mkay?!
Exactly. If the stupid "for your own good" prohibition nannies would get out of the way, people might have a higher quality of life.
Deleteway back in the early `80's if you got popped for weed, it was basically a misdemeanor.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you went into the Service back then, and were dumb enough to admit you did weed- you got a waiver.
Today, you're a felon.
I don't know it you're old enough to remember Mo and Joe's song "Just good 1ol boys", but back then they'd get a slap on the wrist.--today they'd be under the prison.
way back in the early `80's if you got popped for weed, it was basically a misdemeanor.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you went into the Service back then, and were dumb enough to admit you did weed- you got a waiver.
Today, you're a felon.
I don't know it you're old enough to remember Mo and Joe's song "Just good 1ol boys", but back then they'd get a slap on the wrist.--today they'd be under the prison.
Wasn't that song the theme song for Dukes of Hazard?
DeleteAs for the whole felony/misdemeanor thing...look up how alcohol (possession as well as distribution) was treated in the '20's. We may well be right on the edge of legalization and regulation of most drugs.
Then again, maybe not. Current Puritans tend to be the health Nazi-types (don't eat/drink/smoke that! It's not good for you! We're going to make it illegal so you can't!) instead of being morally upright so hard that God's telling them to take the stick out before they damage something.
This is the song I was talking about:
Deletehttp://youtu.be/cGSs8Gt-ILU
The other one was from Waylin Jennings and I'm not sure of the name of that one, even though it was about good `ol boys too