Why is it illegal to self-medicate?

Wake the fuck up. Must I tell you I am a doctor, a lawyer, a human rights advocate, or the Californian governor, for you to comphrehend that there is virtually nothing wrong with self medicating?

What the fuck is wrong with you government and dogs? If I am everything I told you above, but please, can you tell me why is it wrong to self medicate for social anxiety and chronic pain? I don't steal nor harm, nor advocate euthan or ending one's life. In what human form and way is it FUCKING WRONG to buy a FUCKING GRAM of natural, vegetative weed to treat depression? How is it evil to treat chronic pain effectively with a few pills? What right do you have control over myself for the alternative, traditional medicines I partake into my own body for a better health and longevity? What is your fucking problem other than leeching millions off cartels?

Oh please, it is wrong for cartels to murder, traffick humans and sex slavery and grooming, go ahead and capture these murderers and seize their kilos. But fuck, what is wrong with you (were you sexually abused when young?) to sodomize, and raid a harmless citizen's house for a gram of opiate? Just because of your greedy, dirty dream of becoming a millionaire thinking to strike your treasure hunt off the kilos? If you are fucking concern with citizens' health, go ahead and arrest him if he is a violent, psychotic abuser! Why traumatize, trespass someone's property and traumatize them mentally, just for self medicating small amount? In some countries there is death for certain amount, how is that humane?

So how is it wrong to self medicate, if you are not abusing it?


Comments


[6 Points] 2005C:

In as few words as possible: You don't own yourself. Who owns you?


[3 Points] heroinhighway:

cuz the DEA some haters


[2 Points] flying_kitten99:

I hear you brother, it's no joke the way we stigmatize drug users of any variety. People gotta wake up to the truth and the facts! Attitudes are changing though, and change takes time.


[2 Points] mrgreencannabis:

I agree with everything you said, but the way you said some of it reveals that you're not a very tolerant perso yourself.

(were you sexually abused when young?)

Yeah, comments like that definitely help our cause, don't they. Think about it from another perspective. Police officers are tricked into believing that raiding houses for drugs is the right thing to do. In (most) of their minds, they're doing it for the greater good. We know that they're causing a lot of harm though, so we make them our enemies.

The ones who are to blame are the ones on top. Always remember that.


[1 Points] None:

It's probably illegal to self-medicate because of shits like me that buy and resell drugs that get abused by god knows who.

But hey, I self-medicate for depression too, so there you go.


[1 Points] Ghostfeind:

I self medicate and I also like to get high as fuck.

I don't see any issues with either.


[1 Points] DrDeath666:

As of now I feel that it is for our safety. Most people lack the sufficient knowledge to self medicate. If acetaminophen was created today it would be made by prescription because people don't understand how it affects the body. With after a week of use you can see elevated LFTs, indicating liver damage.

What I'm trying to get at is I feel more people will harm themselves rather than help.


[1 Points] yonder123:

Protecting people from themselves does not work. The U.S government has tried, and failed so embarrassingly that they look the other way at the moment.

Self medicating was not the only thing that was banned, research on many, many drugs was banned. Nobody could learn about them. That shows you the root cause of our current drug/legal system.


[1 Points] Solubilityisfun:

Its illegal for a multitude of reasons. First and foremost is that due to the reality of the present nature of culture, propaganda, and politics it is absolutely political suicide to support less harmful drug laws. Thanks to the 2 party system there are an infinite and identical number of politicians that will fill one's exact same space within the 2 parties should one decide to go rouge and support intelligent lawmaking.

Second is the incredibly huge amounts of money in the drug industry, and I'm just talking legal drugs here. Big pharma and big insurance in America is an utter juggernaut of industry. With that sort of money comes incredibly powerful intertwining of interests between their collective lobby and government.

Third is the insane amounts of standing investments including by those profiting 3rd parties in the incarceration for cash game. One will never be able to sell to the American public any reduction in the prison population of any sort thanks to largely irrational fears of drugs owing to effective propaganda over generations.

And do consider a constant of human nature. Stupidity. I will cite one anecdotal example I have seen from numerous people personally that truly is stupid and common in self-medication. Taking recreational amounts of prescribed APAP+Opiate medications. I have never encountered one person either intelligent or informed adequately to perform so much as a cold water extraction on these drugs to save there liver for a high.

There are many other factors that play into this, but ultimately American culture as effected by generations of propaganda combined with a two party political systems with so many dollars behind it that truly changing it is an utter impossibility renders intelligent drug laws an impossible outcome in America today.


[1 Points] noonehear:

Suffered a massive concussion. Marijuana was the best treatment ever for the migraines (RX'd opiates and a 2gram per day RX of gabapentin didn't help at all)... oh plus it helped out with the depression associated with the concussion (way better than 60mg of fluoxetine a day) which prevented me from doing any of my hobbies and even driving (or even playing video games) for nearly a year.

Sadly my nuerologist had NO ISSUES at all with my usage... and was in fact super interested in how it affected me and how much it helped with my issue!. Sadly my family did have issues as it was illegal (had to move home because its hard to pay rent without a job...).


[1 Points] mistressalex:

because there are powerful interest groups that stand to make money from you not self medicating. the pharma industry raping people with ridiculous price for their drugs. the doctors/hostpitals charging an insane amount for their services. they all have powerful lobby groups in the government and are 100 times more powerful than any cartel in the world. also there is the police/prison industrial complex getting huge benefits from arresting and putting in prison non violent drug offenders to get their government funds. so yeah, nobody in power is interested in managing drug addiction or self medication, they all want to make money and this is detrimental to their effort