Originally Posted by MikeSmoke

Does anyone here think about anything other than the use of meds to get high?

My wife is one of millions of people who suffer from chronic, debilitating pain.
She needs meds like oxycodone in order just to be able to get out of bed, get downstairs and make breakfast for our daughter every morning without collapsing on the floor in tears from the pain.
Because people abuse medications, that's no reason to ban them.
I normally don't care if people want to kill themselves with addictive medications because they think it's a cool high --- but if the alternative is to ban those drugs and make them unavailable to the people who *need* them --- I'm totally in favor of enforcing the laws against their abuse and throwing people's asses in prison for it.

No one wants to ban cars --- OR drinking --- because people drive drunk and kill other people. But because some jerks abuse drugs that some people need ---- the answer is to ban the drugs? That's pathetic.