60 years ago it was similar in North America. No morphine for those dying of cancer. You could die screaming in a straight jacket.
Since then culture has over corrected. Now pain is treated for its own sake, no matter how minor, with prescriptions.
Big Pharma pushing more drugs than are really medically needed.
But Big Pharma has higher paid lobbyists in Washington than medical marijuana industry, so the unnecessary pills keep flowing.
I'm hoping Trump succeeds in "draining the swamp".
But he has a huge uphill fight in front of him. There is a lot of money sloshing around in Washington and Trump is threatening to shut that all down.
He has a lot of people in Washington that want him to fail.
There are too many people in Washington that pay off both Democrats and Republicans, and buy there way into halls of power.