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That's true of most populations 
But I’m from rural Illinois, and a family member is a reich wing repug now over in your state, so my opinion comes from a pretty jaded view of the heartland. But glad things are starting to change there.
Say hi to my brother it you see him, He’s easy to spot, he’ll be the one wearing a red maga hat. 
enough liberals around here to keep each other sane. 
Oh, and I suppose you could always OD and die, but presumably the docs know how to handle that ... in a hospital.
And there's nothing 'toxic' about opioids (not the kind they're going to give you in hospital, anyway). Where did you hear they're 'toxic'?
They're also natural, btw ... you have heard of opium poppies, right?
of the plant 
Same with Codeine.
It's true that some opioids including morphine (interestingly, since it's the MOST natural) and meperidine (a pure synthetic known as Demerol) are considered unsafe for long term use, due to build up in the body of unhealthy metabolites, but that's over the course of years.
And propoxyphene (pure synthetic branded as Darvon/Darvocet) is now banned period due to possibility of heart rhythm issues.
The rest of 'em though ... including Codeine, Hydro/Oxycodone, Fentanyl, Dilaudid (hydromorphone), Opana (oxymorphone) are considered safe to take indefinitely (last I read), and exhibit no known toxicity to the organs of the body, including the brain.
Most drugs when you first start taking them, including THC, Nicotine and Alcohol ... can produce nausea and sedation (or the opposite of sedation). Opioids are actually one of the best-tolerated drugs there are. You may not 'feel well' at first, but most people's bodies adjust pretty quickly. Reason being, they are, at their heart, artificial endorphins. They work the same as your bodies own pain-relieving mechanism. You know how people and animals, when they're extremely stressed (i.e. fight or flight), don't feel pain the same way? Opioids mimic that, using the exact same pathways.
And that's why they're a BITCH to quit. Because your body STOPS MAKING endorphins, while at the same time, overproducing adrenaline ... it does so in order to offset the sedative effect of the introduced exogenous endorphins and keep you awake, basically ...
So when you quit, you feel incredibly wired and panicky, due to excess adrenaline, with at the same time, pain emanating from EVERYWHERE, because you have no natural painkillers, cause your body has stopped producing them on it's own ... there was no need, you see ... it has nothing to do with any 'toxins', however. It's just completely predictable, and very NATURAL ... human biology.
This all being said, the case at hand here is Stage IV cancer patient ... I would 100% and ENTIRELY recommend using THC if possible over opioids to deal with pain. It's CLEARLY safer, and much, much, MUCH less addictive. But if you're already dyin' ... I'm just sayin' ... you might as well use the stuff that actually works, for real, IMHO.
In terms of 'it's going to kill you', at a biological level, opioids are only *slightly* more harmful than THC ... but that's assuming you don't OD, or get so addicted you end up offing yourself due to the suffering that opioid addiction brings ... which is not present with THC, obviously.
But IT STILL SHOULD BE UP TO THE PATIENT 100%!!!
Maybe some OTHER drugs ... Rx or otherwise ... such as ... acetaminophen for example can cause liver damage... but opioids aren't known to cause liver damage. Or damage to any other organs for that matter.
A FEW of them, such as Morphine and Demerol are not recommended for long-term use due to build up of unhealthy metabolites, but most of them have zero known toxicity to the organs of the body.
All due respect, you're incorrect, my friend
Nothing I love more than a consensus with my fellow Dems
On edit: I think it's kinda fascinating the level of DU'ers ... uh ... disdain for ZOMG OXYCONTIN ... when in reality, it's a far more 'humane' alternative to the common oxycodone formulation that existed before it, that being Percocet. It's the difference between taking pure Oxycodone (Oxy), which is almost entirely non-toxic ... vs taking a small amount of Oxycodone and a copious amount of liver-destroying Acetaminophen (Percocet) in every pill.
In fact, prior to about 1998, unless you had advanced cancer, as a patient, you were NOT getting an acetaminophen-free version of an opioid. You got either Vicodin (hydrocodone + acetaminophen) or Percocet. Or if you had a decent doc, you could maybe get Percodan, which was Oxy+Aspirin, which is much less toxic. Not HEALTHY by any stretch, but not 'as bad'.
And the unavailability of pure opioids was done PURPOSEFULLY. The DEA literally wanted to make sure you'd poison yourself, destroy your liver ... before you got seriously hooked on opioids, so they insisted they ONLY allow pure opioids to people on the verge of death from cancer or the like.
Needless to say, it didn't work very well (or ... maybe it worked great, not sure), and 10's of 1000's of people ended up wrecking their livers and dying young, because the opioids hooked 'em, then they'd end up taking the equivalent of 30, 40, 90 Extra Strength Tylenols every freaking day to get their 'fix'. Or they moved to heroin, which maybe saved their lives, paradoxically enough.
But you don't have Stage IV cancer, which is the context of the discussion.
Stage IV almost always means you're going to die, pretty soon ... and you're almost certainly in a great deal of constant pain. You're really unlikely to be 'working' anymore.
So, not quite the same ... just sayin'
As an aside, if it was me, I could work like 100 times more easily on opioids than I could on THC. In fact, I have, literally thousands of times, and accomplished a huge amount of work while doing so. And nobody was any the wiser. This was back, early 2000's.
If I went to work on THC, otoh, my eyes would be like radishes in my head, I'd sit around giggling and eating munchies, everyone would KNOW I'm freaking high off my tree ... and I'd accomplish absolutely nothing because I'd forget what I was doing every 20 seconds.
So ... I guess everyone is different
Jesus effing Christ! 
this could happen ANYPLACE in the country. missourian here.
Shaking down a cancer patient - in the patient ‘s HOSPITAL ROOM!?!?!?!????
What an outrage!
No need to apologize, sometimes we need to get it all out.
Rousting a dying man for ****ing HARMLESS THC!!!????
since then we've learned that we don't know what we're talking about or what we wanted when we voted.
pill, oils, etc were approved by Prick Scott in 2017.
On March 3, 2019 the Fla Senate approved the use of smokable marijuana by medical patients, the Fla House has yet to vote on it.
What a bunch of shit over a plant. 
Oh, they, the legislature, wants to make it harder for home rule ordinances to be passed.
to appear on the ballot, the amendment had to go to the fla state supreme court and be a one item change with wording approved by them.
It met all those requirements.
then the legislature got involved by telling us that they would define the meanings of the amendments wording.
Meanwhile they are disallowing individual cities the right (home rule) to modify punishment for possession, restrict firearm carrying, and other applicable items.
it's a freaking joke show.
Good luck with MO. You'll need it. BTW. John Morgan of Morgan and Morgan was instrumental in both writing the amendment and paying for people to collect signatures to get it on the ballot. Hope you have the same or similar pockets.
Peace out to you my brother.
