I am a Prisoner of War, my govt declared War on Drugs and Chronic Pain Patients have been deeply wounded, govt imprisons those who would offer us Medical Treatment. This is a violation of Human Rights Treaties that the US has signed. @hrw @ACLU @UNHumanRights #GenevaConvention
... This War was started a Century ago and is clearly unwinnable, as was clearly demonstrated by Alcohol Prohibition. It was started by Moral Zealots, Opportunists, & Profiteers and is continued by the same adding more as people devised new ways to make money from the misery...
.... Veterans, the Chronically ill, People with Mental Health conditions, People in Poverty & Despair all seek access to drugs to self-treat, and the govt tries, unsuccessfully, to deny them relief, and in criminalizing this behavior puts it's boot-heel on the "underclass"...
... It creates a black market of unsafe products that poisons users, it creates cartels & drug gangs which must police their own business- the #1 driver of gun violence is DRUG PROHIBITION. Prohibition incarcerates people who seek relief from despair and anguish and denies ...
...the fundamental Human Right to decide what we put into our own bodies, making us slaves or children to the govts wishes... If you want to assert the idea that "Pain builds character" think of the all the suicides of Veterans & Chronic Pain Patients recently and 4 dead in Tulsa
.... It would seem obvious that substantially lowering the # of OD deaths is desired; a safe legal supply of all drugs would do this. Equally obvious is the dramatic reduction in gun violence/deaths that would be achieved by eliminating cartels and drug gangs(illicit merchants);
... ending prohibition would do this as well. Also being called for lately is an end to systemic racism and I can't think of a single larger driver of systemic racism than our Justice depts War on minority drug use. If we believe "my body, my choice",.can't we apply this to meds?
If your elected representative in govt doesn't see the obvious logic here, they are either a victim of a lifetimes worth of programming via govt propaganda, or is benefiting from the abuse of power and the denial of personal autonomy. Either way, it is time for them to go....
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