medical, rant
also like, if stigmatising people who are prescribed cannabis for their health problem is goodthen what do we tell people with adhd (who need literal speed!!!1!1!1!!oneone)
what do we tell people with chronic pain (who often need opioids)
what do we tell people with epilepsy (who need strong sedatives)
what do we tell researchers working on mdma-assisted psychotherapy?
what do we tell people with treatment-resistant depression that need maois or even ketamine?
honestly, what do we tell anybody who has a disease that can't be found with simple imaging and blood tests?
tho i don't know if using "medical" opioids would be fine even for someone who barely survived a car crash
the perfect drug-free society needs to suffer and the perfect drug-free patients need to die so that we can scream about how we're winning the war on drugs
except, the actual drug users get their shit from a vendor, and not from a doctor
and the "necessary caution" is making people with actual health problems have contact with criminals
but that's good, because such use can't be measured, and public safety is worth far less than one's own stereotypes