The current drug policy in the United States is just another symptom of the Nanny State. Smoking bans, bans on internet Gambling, Limits on Strip Clubs, cell phone restriction while driving, etc. offend me as a thinking adult who is perfectly able to make their own decision regarding “vice.” This is particularly true since cheese burgers, which probably harm more americans than all these other vices put together, remain legal, LOL.
I am also involved in the chronic Pain Community where interference by the DEA in the Doctor/Patient relationship has grown increasingly intrusive. So much so that a friend’s sister, who has terminal cancer, has limited access to pain medications because she may become “addicted.”
So it is not only illicit drugs that the Government wants to “protect” us from, but also from certain prescription drugs that they feel may be abused.
There are 2 bills waiting a vote in the House of Representatives, S.980, & H.R. 6353 that will severely limit American’s access to telemedicine (hurting, in particular rural communities) and will impact our ability to make medical choices vis a vis prescription drugs. Both of these Bills have bipartisan sponsers, although S.980 is the brainchild of that Idiot Dianne Feinstein. I suggest anyone interested in Liberty should write their Congressman and urge them to vote NO on these restrictive Bills.
One more thing dan, I suppose that I didn’t make it quite clear, but I think that the number of hard core addicts has remained constant for decades, while the numbers of Americans who try drugs or use drugs “recreastionally”
may flucuate. I honestly don’t see millions of Americans, if drug use is decriminalized, becoming hard-core drug addicts, just as most Americans don’t become drunks because alcohol is readily available.
Brillant posts btw, LJM.
