Medical Marijuana

How many people have overdosed on prescription medication?  Seriously, I don't know.  A lot I'm sure.

How many people have overdosed on medicinal marijuana?  Zero.

I don't understand why people (who tend to be right wing) are for freedom of choice except for when it comes to a women's right to choose and medical marijuana (or recreational for that matter).  I think part of it has to do with the pharmaceutical industry and their donations to conservative parties the world over (as for a women's right to choose it has to do with religion, obviously).

Conservatives who are not rich tend to be rural folk who vote against their own interests.  They'll never be rich, they will always rely on public health care and they could probably use an escape from the constant pain of being rural folk with no prospects.  Smoke up, man!

Yet they always vote against their own interests!  Why?  Religion and a lack of education (and an aversion to books and facts).

I know a few people who suffer from chronic pain.  Some are religious, older, conservative.  They take medication that makes them constipated, their hands swell up, suffer from insomnia and other issues, which forces them to take medication to counteract those side effects, which has their own side effects.  I've suggested medical marijuana but they won't listen.  They grew up actually believing the movie "Refer Madness" rather than laughing at it for it's absurdity.  It's sad that the pharmaceutical industry causes pain when it should be alleviating it.

Their should be a film called "Prescription Madness".