My mother’s a nurse. I got to walk along with her to see the detox unit from accidental overdoses.
Paul Ryan doesn’t have a clue. There is so much money being spent to try to treat these people who have an affliction. Rather than enabling them, we need someone who’s willing to ask the tough questions.
That man is not Paul Ryan. Love the man, but he’s very, very wrong here.
Also, thank you to the crackhead who tossed his pipe in my car when it was parked at work. Thanks so much for that, btw!
a) He said he was against legalized marijuana, but it was the State that had to make the law under the 10th amendment.
b) If doctors believe that marijuana can help their cancer patients make it through chemo then they should be allowed to prescribe it. (My father took one dose of chemo following colon cancer surgery and refused any further treatment because it was so harsh. He has been lucky)
c) The list of prescription drugs that are extremely harmful and addictive when abused is long. So is the list of those who abuse them and doctors that prescribe them. On the other hand it would be immoral to use that as an excuse to deny the medication to those who can benefit from it.
If you think not, then which section of the Constitution do you think delegates that power to Congress?
This isn’t an issue of what you feel.
Its an issue of state rights and the overstepping of federal power.
The federal government is out of control and expanding into every area of our lives. Yet because you feel something is bad and should be banned you’ll encourage the federal government to abuse its powers not granted to it by our constitution. You and a few million others all want to control something so in turn you eventually as a whole grant the federal government total rule over our lives. One law at a time...
And then you wonder what happened to your freedom...
And last but not least. How can you truly have freedom, if you aren’t allowed to make what the majority thinks is the “wrong” choice from time to time. If God didn’t believe in freedom we wouldn’t have been given free will. We would instead have been robots fulfilling our sinless programming all in perfect harmony - and all completely meaningless. Free will comes with a heavy price - but its better than the alternative.
How many of those were from marijuana? My guess is zero.
My mother’s a nurse. I got to walk along with her to see the detox unit from accidental overdoses.
“Accidental overdoses” of marijuana? You speak with forked tongue, or your memory is faulty.
I have been in the business for years. People need to take responsibility for their own behaviors. Treatment may not be the best goal in a number of cases.
Enabling is not making drugs available. Enabling is when we rescue over and over instead of letting people face the consequences of their actions.
Theodore Dalrymples books, Romancing the Opiates and Life on the Bottom are required reading for those interested in drugs and choices.
Just wondering; how does someone wind up accidentally overdosing on pot and winding up in a hospital detox unit?