Re: drug use by our homeless family members or friends?, lets adopt them

"Brother Nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> roid wrote:
> > Brother Nate wrote
> > > Children deserve better providers than ones who set an
> > > example like that.  In a nation with the social services
> > > we provide stealing is only a short-cut for the morally
> > > bankrupt.
>
> > you trust your government to tell you what is and isn't moral in a
medical
> > sense?
>
> I trust government more than I trust anyone who makes excuses
> for addicts who pillage their community in order to support
> their "habit".

yes this would be the doctors "making the excuses" and "pillaging the
community" to support their patient's "habits" as so put it in such
colourful language.
these medical desisions are to be make by the doctors, not by a policymaker
making laws to make himself look tough enough to re-elect.
why do you think politicians know better about medical matters than doctors
do?  WHY?

> > whatever happened to doctors eh, when the government tells you what
> > medicines to take.
>
> Government delineates what substances are legal to use as
> medicines.  Doctors prescribe them.  This really isn't
> that hard to figure out, nor is it inherently unreasonable.

what does a politician know about the possible uses or harms from a
substance?
and how on earth is he more qualified than a doctor to make this desision?

you could just as soon make a federal or state law saying that passenger
airplanes should not fly upside down.
where the reality is that the pilots will probabaly make this desision
themselves, and the government should fuck off from butting into such
professional practices.  also the reality is that sometimes flying
upsidedown is called for, and a law is just going to get in the way of the
pilot's professional desision-making while flying.  do you understand this
analogy?

doctors are not medicine despensatorys, and you can sure believe that THEY
will be on the forefront of modern medical practice.  whereas a politician
is behind a desk trying to tell the pro doctor how to do his job by proxy.
insight for you:  ALL DOCTORS ARE PROFESSIONALS.
name me one single politician who is more qualified than a doctor to make
such medical desisions.  go on try.

> There are instances (like MJ) in which the classification
> of the substance is out of proportion to the danger it
> poses or its potential usefulness, but as far as I'm
> concerned all that means is that we should reclassify MJ.
>
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> Brother Nate               Electron Juggler
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