An ample supply and a blind eye has a way of creating its own demand.
Should the nanny government always be that eye?
It used to be that the eye was God. That was still understood well enough that there was no significant abuse problem in 1900 in America.
We’re looking at what happens when we try to give the eye of God to a government. All kinds of foul-ups and unintended consequences. Only a police state could really manage this.
It is my hypothesis that the vast majority of the Veterans living on the streets are suffering from drug addictions facilitated by the VA System. As one very familiar with VA Hospitals and Clinics, I can testify that the opioids have been handed out like candy. It’s cheap and easy treatment -— the Veteran feels better and goes away for a while. I have personally been handed bottles of hundreds of controlled substance pills that I refused and returned to the pharmacy -— to the utter shock of the pharmacists who couldn’t believe that I didn’t want them. What starts out as a few pain pills can become a lifelong “monkey” far too easily. As the monkey grows, the legal pills are not enough, so the “medical addict” goes to the street -— where he will live his addiction alone.