Oxycontin (oxycodone) is legal and prescribed to deal with pain. It continues to make headlines as abusers go to jail and commit all sorts of crimes while abusing it, obtaining it, and continuing to support their addictions to it. I could list dozens of drugs that are known to have successful alternate black market lives. Practically any opiate prescription you can name sells for top dollar on the street.

So, why does a drug that has practically no life-threatening side effects, proven and undisputed success treating the suffering brought on by cancer treatment, glaucoma, and a myriad of other debilitating disease continue to be illegal? We know it's not because people may abuse legalization and smoke pot for unregulated reasons. If that were the sole reason, we should ban all opiates. It's just because lawmakers and much of the public are bigoted against pot due to their own experience with the drug or the stigma.

The push to get Medical Marijuana legal continues.

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