The whole incident is shameful especially the hospital staff that called the police.
We talk about police being brave and courageous, but I wish these officers had the courage to say this is wrong and I don’t want to be part of it.
We talk about police being brave and courageous, but I wish these officers had the courage to say this is wrong and I don’t want to be part of it.
Over my lifetime, we've created cartels because of drugs. Millions have probably died or been exposed to violence. People flee countries and now we want to build a wall to keep all the "problems" out of the US, that we're largely responsible for.
Let's not shame police. Same on you!
You seem to be arguing that you should follow immoral laws until you have a chance to change them. That doesn't seem very moral to me.
Both are extremely prevalent in cancer wards.
2) While I'd never criticise somebody own decision to avoid opiates (long term use gives you epic constipation), this preachy "opiates are evil thing" that's floating around (see every comments section everywhere) is bullshit that needs to stop.
Well-prescribed palliatively-applied opioids (in concert with other drugs) are great for palliative care. That doesn't change just because a few dipshit doctors hand out oxy for chronic backpain, or that drug companies have inappropriately marketed fentanyl, or that people die from opiate abuse because they try to self-dose using help on forums.
The fact here is this guy has an extremely finite amount of life left. People don't get better from stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
So again, props to anybody who can manage their pain through alternative mechanisms, but don't be part of the witch-hunt scaring people in pain off the good stuff.
On the other hand, homegrown weed is one of those things the Supreme Court, such as it is, needs to use words like "aggregate" to square federal regulation of it with the Commerce Clause, which is poppycock.
It’s a pretty crappy job: stop a car and you could be shot/run over; you tend to see people in extremis and encounter a lot of, well, let’s say “jerks”. Naturally it doesn’t encourage a lot of people to take the job. I have a friend who became a cop a few years ago and she has definitely become very very cynical which she had not been at all before.
None of which defends this heartless search; I’m just providing a contextual response to your comment.
The truth is that cops are far far more likely to kill someone than be killed by them.
I think the oppositional model and recent (last 30 years) glorification of militarism has caused grievous damage to the functioning of civil policing. Non of which excuses police abuse -- and in fact AFAICT encourages it.