As we have learned over the centuries, when it comes to burning witches, it doesn’t really matter if you have burned a real witch or just someone who, in your fevered, partisan, and paranoid imagination, could easily become a witch in the future. It is the burning that is the message.
Clearly we have a problem with addiction in this country, but we also have a problem with pain management. Living in constant pain can destroy a person.
"I feel that bringing charges against heroin is almost like questioning the fidelity of a good friend. I have used it with good results.”
-- An American physician in 1906