Sorry but I have to smirk when people use what other countries have done as a comparison to what we should do here.
LETS GO BRANDON
F Joe Biden
MisterVeritis (06-12-2018)
A good percentage of the people that have died have been prescribed opioids to control pain as the result of injury. Unfortunately, big pharma hid its near immediate addictiveness. These people were prescribed this stuff and became hooked. I have seen it. I have attended funerals of such victims.
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
Don't tell me that you believe the bull$#@! about how it couldn't work here because we're bigger? We also have more resources and if you like we could break the programs up at the state level.
Besides our way has completely failed. I haven't drank or used illicit drugs in over 30 years but I could have pot tonight and harder drugs within days and I don't even travel in those circles anymore.
The fallacy of the pro-prohibition argument , the war on drugs argument , is starting from the false position that any of it has worked at all. It hasn't. So you reject options that have worked elsewhere in favor of proven failure here. Think about it.
Peter1469 (06-03-2018)
Clearly prescription opiates should be used only short term. That makes sense and works unless you were the one with the serious chronic pain they want to throw advil at.
As the song says "We need a new drug" but such a drug would diminsh profits for big pharma, jails, prisons , rehabs, lawyers, undertakers, counselors . The free market has no solution here
DGUtley (06-03-2018)
The war on drugs hasn’t worked. Time to think outside the box.
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
donttread (06-03-2018)