Florida dispensaries aim to 'normalize' medical marijuana

We have had laws about intoxicants since we’ve been a nation, so your nanny-state reference makes as much sense as the rest of your logic. Restrictions on firearms are also well represented in our history. Even in the wild west, patrons checked their weapons before they drank.

What has been proven is the fact that any mind-altering substance will be abused, and reasonable people agree that empirical standards to protect public safety outweigh your personal license.

This country was never Libertarian. It was founded as a Republic under the principles of Federalism. That means you could establish your local libertarian utopia, but you don’t get to dictate how the rest of us live.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“... reasonable people agree that empirical standards to protect public safety outweigh your personal license.”

My, how far we’ve come.

At the time that was written, numerous states were dry. You are not seriously using the preamble to justify your appetite!

“Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.”
George Washington

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams

“It is in the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. . . . degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats into the heart of its laws and constitution.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”
Benjamin Franklin

“. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.”
Patrick Henry

At the time that was written, numerous states were dry.

"Maine passed the first state prohibition law in 1846, and a number of other states had followed suit by the time the Civil War began in 1861."

http://www.history.com/topics/prohibition

Got that right they make Billions off of peoples pain. There are 1.33 million chronic pain patients, who have no cures for their diseases, many of them medically caused. Bad surgeries, ICC (bladder diseases)Peripheral Neuropathy, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, all they have to treat them is pain meds. Lyrica, Neurotin and Cymbalta are more addictive than morphine for the last ones.

AARP Made $2.8 Billion off of Obamacare
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/328338/aarp-made-28-billion-obamacare-avik-roy

Big Pharmaceutical Corruption & the Myth of Safe & Effective Drugs ~ See article, videos & study here: http://wp.me/p2X3AR-9HY

Dr Peter Gøtzsche Exposes Big Pharma as Organized Crime
http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/dr-peter-gotzsche-exposes-big-pharma-as-organized-crime/

Doctors Earn $3.5 Billion in Kickbacks from Pharmaceutical Companies
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/doctors-earn-3-5-billion-in-kickbacks-from-pharmaceutical-companies/

I’m one of them, left to long on Nexium and my bones are now brittle, Physio caused annular tears and disc dislocations that turned into bulges, and herniation’s and collapses that can’t be fixed. Add the fact that Primary is to stupid to read a Thyroid Lab report and you get under dosed and it caused worse brittle bones. See an ENDO for a Endocrine issue. You can’t trust your Primary any more.

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