this is your war on drugs

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I guess what you're saying is that anyone should be able to get any kind of drug/medication anytime they want at anytime.

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Yes.

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If you start with that belief then a few other things follow. Will get to that later.

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BTW my wife had breast cancer in the late nineties and I was forced to break the law in obtaining pot to get her through chemo.

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^^^ And this is why.

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I disagree totally that this is justification for doing away with prescriptions more or less.

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Haven't heard anything about what his doctor in NJ said. Haven't heard anything about what doctors in Florida said. Haven't heard or read anything about what came out at the trial. Sorry but I think this is a one sided report so I'm reserving judgement. But it sounds to me like this probably an unremarkable story most likely.

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What the doctors think is irrelevant. They don't own the man's body.

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If you believe that prescriptions should be done away with I agree that the doctors beliefs are irrelevant. I don't share that view though.

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I was reading something recently that compared doctors to lawyers. Lawyers, while they deal with incredbly important issues (sometimes even involving life and death), they only play an advisory role. Clients always have the freedom to proceed against their lawyers' wishes or without consulting a lawyer at all. Doctors, however, take a parental role, with the power to deny a specific course of action to one of their patients. Why should this be the case?

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Because they've studied medicine and have an in depth knowledge that the vast majority of people don't have. They have the expertise necessary.

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Why shouldn't someone be allowed to go against his doctor's advice and take such-and-such medication?

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See above.