Man aiding homeless person held by police

[MSimon]

You have made it very clear for a number of years what you want. And regulation is not it.

You are confusing my tactics with my strategy. Odd for a man versed in the military arts.

Especially since I laid them both out in my last few comments on this thread.

Drugs seem to have clouded your brain. A common affliction among prohibitionists. Odd. And amusing. But not unusual when emotion clouds reason. Which is why I'm patient. Emotion generally can't be cured.

BTW I know you are not emotional. You know how I know that? You countering "People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers" with the epithet "childish" - you reasoning skills are nonpareil.

“Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out. Thus, Science advances one funeral at a time” Max Planck

[MSimon]

"People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers" explains quite a lot (almost all?) about "addiction". "Drugs are addictive" explains nothing. It is pure emotionalism. The very thing you complain about re: the "other" side.

I have tried to make my engineering habits encompass my whole life. You prefer to keep them sequestered to parts of yours. Short term I WILL be beaten. Long term you CAN'T win. It is the way things work. Reason is long term far more powerful.

"Never underestimate the Power of the Force".

[ladajo]

People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers

This argument is non-sequitur.

Of course people in pain want pain relief. Duh!

But to conclude 'therefore all people who take drugs chronically are in chronic pain' from this is plain silly (and childish), and of note the heart of your "theory".

Here let me try one on you:

People who are chronically happy chronically eat ice-cream.
Therefore: All people who chronically eat ice-ceam are chronically happy.

There are plenty of ice-cream eaters that are not happy. Like for instance stress induced overeaters.

It is unfortunate for your argument that the impetus to control addictive meds came from the unrestricted use of opiates during the civil war for wounded.
Even once healed and healthy, they continued the use of the opiates. Low and behold, addictive behaviours discovered. A dark chapter in our military history that you choose to ignore. The unintentional addicting of large percentages of soldiers to opiates. Oh, I forgot, they weren't addicted.
According to you, addiction is not real.

Complete Idiocy. If your theory were true the entire marketing plan of the illegal drugs industry would fall apart and it would not be a multi-billion dollar industry.
Addicts will do pretty much anything to get their fix.

Pretty much anyone can be turned into and addict. "Chronic pain" or no. I've seen it done.