“Each person is unique and it should not be up to the incompetent government to decide what herbs and medicines EVERYONE can use.”
Disagree. The herbs and medicines that cause irrationality, brain damage, lack of inhibition, lack of judgement, comas, hallucinations, and/or withdrawal symptoms so extreme that they’d commit crimes for a fix are affecting all of us, big time.
Do you think CA should have authority under the Tenth Amendment to enact the policy without interference from fedgov? Or, do you think fedgov should have authority under the Commerce Clause to shut it down?
Most of these problems are due to ignorant people misusing drugs by following an ignorant government-fueled drug counterculture. The rest are abandoned mentally ill people with drug records being forced to medicate with dirty street drugs that have no option but to repeat this cycle until they die violently. However, instead of being able to medicate alone with clean drugs that cost pennies, they are forced to run the street for drugs that cost more than gold and so dirty that their condition is worsened.
Blind drug laws assume all people fall into the above categories and stupidly assume laws can control those irrational people. Sadly, these classes of people did not exist before and are created/sustained by the drug war itself.
When ALL the drugs/herbs that God gave us are used with knowledge, they are capable of helping society greatly. In my research days, I knew many scientists that were able to unlock/focus their minds by safely and knowledgeably employing (highly illegal) psychadelic drugs. Several had international recognition for these discoveries.
I also know therapists that have helped thousands of stuck people through unconventional drug therapy. People that could not move on for years could be helped in a few sessions. When MDMA (Ecstasy) was legal, it was first sold under the trade name “Empathy”. When it was banned, I recall a therapist friend of mine crying because he knew it helped so many.
See my post on cannabis hemp medical research:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2554974/posts?page=25#25
The government ignorantly assumes thousands of unreaserched chemicals cause ALL people to act stupidly and lose their mind. The government routinely bans research on thousands of discovered chemicals without any scientific data other than it being a possible intoxicant. It routinely arrests scientists that choose to seek this knowledge and not respect ignorant laws.
This is worse than book burning and makes me sick.