G.O.M...God's Own Medicine

[moviebuff927]

I would just like to say that although I would consider myself an addict, morphine has done a lot of great things for me. More good than bad. It's better than being addicted to cocaine, alcohol, or even cigarettes. And although I am an addict, I can hold down a job, work all day, pay my bills, and otherwise live a "normal" constructive life.

Why can't the government see that? Why do they allow sale of alcohol and condemn "junkies"?

When I was in pain from my car accident, morphine saved me from the hell that was pain. And the pain was hell. I can understand why people with undertreated chronic pain would want to kill themselves rather than live with the pain. It sucks. And morphine saved me. It also stuck with me.

Years later and I continue to use and it hasn't caused anywhere near the damage that cocaine had caused or any other drug had caused. And I have an addictive personality.

To me, this is the least destructive thing that I could consume that would appease my appetite for something to alter my consciousness.

Someone had it right when they said it was GOD'S OWN MEDICINE

[nick]

Here in the UK, I'm lucky enough to have a oral morphine script.In the last 15 years on script,I haven't committed a single crime or spent a night in hospital.It is possible to have a normal life and be addicted to opiates.The problem is not drugs but prohibition.

[Luravex]

Opiates are probably the longest standing ethneogen in human history, and isn't it interesting that they contain chemicals that so perfectly mimic the pleasure chemicals in human brains....??? This is clearly a prime example of a natural symbiotic relationship.......poppies offer man medicine for pain and in exchange have guaranteed their own propagation and survival......very similar to food bearing plants....

A primitive man once ate a few poppy heads and noticed their pleasurable and pain killing effects and these effects were retained through human evolution to today.....so isn't this what nature has intended.......?? Isn't that validation in and of itself....?? Its really a shame that modern man has seen fit to demonize such an important and otherwise benign gift of nature....

[Hammilton]

I'm a huge fan of opiates, sure, but I think it's *really* stretching it to call it an entheogen.

really really