It’ll be easier, cheaper, and much more convenient to get heroin on the street corner to manage pain than to get an appointment and a prescription.
That’s exactly what (some) people will do. Who can blame them?
I’ve finally hit the point where I’m ready to try medical marijuana. Never have done pot. Never did drugs. I’d be content to use prescribed, monitored hydrocodone for the rest of my life. But I’m sick of being treated like a criminal because I am hurt. I’m sick of bureaucrats threatening to hurt me every time an idiot abuses *my* medication.
And that’s exactly what they’re threatening to do. To actually, physically HURT me. This isn’t messing with my toilet flush or taking away my decent light bulbs. This will physically cause me pain.
I am so ashamed that I was once a ‘drug warrior’. I am paying the price for my lack of compassion now. I am so sorry for the years that I bought into the BS and supported politicians who wanted control. I never could comprehend how bad chronic pain can be until I suffered it for myself. I was an idiot and inhumane and unthinking.
I helped cause this problem. And I deeply regret it.