Unwanted answers

[supergee]

The way to have fewer abortions is to give good sex education, to make birth control freely available, and to empower women to say no if they don't want sex and to demand birth control if they do. Anyone who finds that approach unacceptable thinks that there is something more important than minimizing abortion, such as controlling people’s, and particularly women’s, sex lives.

Prescription opiate addiction is a major problem, and the government is reacting the way governments do, by forbidding and cracking down. A study says that cannabis can seriously reduce the use of opiates by chronic pain sufferers. Is there something more important than minimizing opiate addiction?

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

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[howlingsilence]

Hmm.

With all of the many strains I've tried through a now-defunct compassion club in Toronto that was shut down by police, cannabis only makes me more aware of my chronic pain (fibromyalgia and arthritis), more aware of the feeling of my body breaking down. In my late twenties. Even with the strains that are said to be the best for chronic pain.

That said, I'm happy that others have had a different experience, and I still push for the decriminalization of marijuana. I hadn't heard about the study regarding opiates; thanks for that!

By the way, I've heard the phrase "war on some drugs" elsewhere. Where did you pick it up?

[supergee]

I believe Robert Anton Wilson coined it.