There’s a tiny bit of truth in that pile of garbage, just enough to score some points.
If the money pored into drug enforcement was diverted into rehab and anti-drug promotion programs, I wonder if there would be more use.
Are the root causes of recreational addiction always that much different than the root causes of medical addiction? There’s an old saying that an untempted virgin can’t boast of her chastity. In Rush’s upbringing and social circles, do you think that he was ever that tempted by drugs? If not, then he can’t boast of his moral superiority over those that were.
All fell to a common weakness, expressed in different type and circumstances. The most promising among us who promote drug laws have no clear claim to moral superiority, just as incarceration has no clear claim to greater effectiveness than rehab and anti-drug promotion programs.
Legalizing drugs has no bearing on Limbaughs situation, other then it would have made it cheaper and easier to continue his addiction. His situation is that a powerful and narcotic pain medication was prescribed. Perhaps more careful monitoring and aftercare is needed in his type of situation, but that is more a medical, not a legal matter.
Recreational drug use is in no way related to the situation he finds himself in, other then both users obtain their drugs from people willing to sell death for a profit. Pushers aren't a medical problem, they will remain a legal problem.
I know there is a lot of effort out there by some elements to attempt to use Limbaugh's situation to somehow bloister their efforts to legalize drugs. Drug legalization wouldn't have prevented Limbaugh's problem, it would only create many more like him.
I seriously doubt that Limbaugh himself would be in favor of that.