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Garion_55

(1,915 posts)
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 10:53 AM Jun 2014

“Don’t let my Baby Sister Die” How the ‘War on Drugs’ is Killing Children

June 12, 2014

Baby Bou is one of many children, in a long line of victims, who are created everyday by the state’s war on drugs.

Baby Bou’s case is horrible and tragic and is serving as an example to expose the horrid reality of state violence to ‘regulate’ personal choice.

While that tragic incident has received worldwide attention, there are untold numbers of children who are denied potentially life saving medical treatment on a daily basis.

Many parents have no idea that cannabis is even a viable treatment as it is not mentioned to them by doctors and dismissed as illegitimate because of the legal ramifications of its use.

When a parent actually wants to seek out medical cannabis as treatment and they do not live in one of the green states below, they either have to move or become ‘criminal drug traffickers.’


Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dont-baby-sister-die-war-drugs-killing-children/#c3U6MD2qdehS03im.99

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