I’m sorry to hear about your friend. I have no problem with medical marijuana, or with narcotics for the terminally ill, or doctor assisted suicide for that matter. An acquaintance of mine just had to quit work because his AIDS has progressed too much for him to work. He’s not got much longer, and I certainly would not deny him pain medication that works.
As for people hooked on prescription and or street drugs, I have zero sympathy or tolerance. I’d as soon shoot them. Anyone who thinks we will have legalized drugs without drug cartels operating freely is delusional. Look at who runs the health care industry, then put guns in their hands. No thx.
I spent 2 years walking to work and everywhere else of course: literally hours out of my day, every day, that I neither got paid for since I couldn’t work those hours, or got to spend with my man and cats. That’s in the rain, in 100 degree weather, in a freaking ice storm.
If some fool wants to poison themselves, fine. I say speed it up and die already.
I’ve met very few people who have a worse background than mine and I don’t do drugs.

He suffered from nausea and loss of appetite and the doctor prescribed marinol which actually aggravated the nausea. He got weekend passes to go home and spend time with his family and friends and to smoke .

Some of the medical marijuana stores across the country have been raided as well as farms. Even terminal patients have been arrested.

I know crack cocaine, heroin and meth are different problems, but the use is a cause and/or effect of mental illness and those are not addressed by our current system. I’m not advocating the legalization of those drugs across the board, but it seems the focus is wrong in law enforcement and courts.

Methadone doesn’t always work, but I worked with a man addicted to heroin and it kept him out of jail and eventually he was able to completely kick his addiction.

What is happening with the spam filter?

Plus sell San Quenton.

Johnny Cash would be happy.

Great toon, Pat – thank you!

And Mitch, great comment. I was a big supporter of Sen. Webb, too. I lived in VA – I was ALL too happy to have Allen voted out. That his replacement is someone of Webb’s stature is welcome indeed.

It is tough on the outside.

Your silence and lack of support were deafening on those occasions.

Thanks for this update on your original story, Pat. Webb is serious about this issue. I recall that when asked, he spoke of the criminal justice problems at length back during his campaign.