Americans still have the right to self medicate. They just have to do it legally. Anyone can go to the drug store and by mild cold remedies, pain killers, etc.
It takes alot of schooling, to become a medical doctor.
And people don’t get “permission” to use a drug, they get a “prescription”.
Marijuana addicts just may not want to admit, that they have a “mental health problem”. They say, they can quit anytime, but they probably don’t realize that, it is a “psychologically addictive” substance.

I am aware that the government makes it very difficult, if not impossible at times, for people to obtain medication. I referenced one of the worst examples, that of prosecuting doctors for prescribing pain medication, in my post.

I don’t think all libertarians wrongly perceive the role doctors play in enforcing statist drug laws. I am opposed to all medical licensing requirements, just as I am opposed to all government prescription requirements. There should be no restrictions whatsoever on people obtaining whatever medication they feel they need, just as there should be no restraints on doctors to counsel patients and prescribe such medications.

But that is but one narrow aspect of the larger drug war. To catalog every crime of the state in enforcing this useless and idiotic war would probably require far more than a single blog post.