From: [s--m] at [europa.com] (F. Ludlow)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs,alt.drugs.pot
Subject: Re: Another Victim
Date: 26 May 1995 23:28:38 GMT

[l--o] at [buffnet.net] wrote:

: A friend of mine,  Glen Hubbard,  died of AIDS a couple years ago,  and
: his doctor said that he could have lived for 6-8 years longer if he'd
: been better fed and wasn't exposed to many infections.  About a year
: before his death, his mother (an ex-narc from Georgia who was his nurse
: and as anti-drugs as anyone I'd ever heard of) came to me and asked if
: I could get him some pot,  to stimulate his appetite and suppress some of
: the nausea from his medications.  She was pretty desparate to get him to
: eat more regularly.

: I had to say no,  because I'd stopped using pot several years before for
: fear of government oppression.  I felt pretty bad about it,  and spoke
: with a couple other folks who claim to have dropped off some mercy weed
: anonymously.

: He was a father,  so he probably couldn't avoid exposure to nasty germs,
: but I've felt pretty bad about it ever since.  As far as I'm concerned,
: prohibition euthanized this guy as surely as a bullet through the brain.
: His kids are both young and neither will remember him as well as they
: could have if he'd had another year or two.

: Glen paid the price for being an interveinous drug user.  As someone
: who never even considered that delivery method for drugs,  I'm not as
: sympathetic as I could be.  You want to go on the ride,  you have to
: pay for the ticket.  I mourned from a distance,  and I really haven't
: contacted his Mom since he died.

: I think that,  if drugs were legal,  folks would not be sharing needles
: and diseases.  I am also against Euthanasia in a BIG way,  so I don't
: think dying was the correct answer for this sick friend or anyone else.

: In my eyes, prohibition gave this guy his disease,  then denied him an 
: effective way of dealing with its treatment.

: Is feeling good REALLY such an evil thing that you prohibitionists
: need to kill folks off for its pursuit?  If I put their address up,
: would you be willing to write and explain to his kids why his life
: had lower priority than your politics?
: -Leo
: ------
: Free or Drug Free;  America can't be both!
Your last line says it all. Don't give up the fight for freedom for all 
controlled substance consumers! --
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