Reefer Madness? This goes FAR beyond "Reefer Madness" into the legalization of every narcotic known to man. An absurd proposition, by any account.
Curren drug laws not only increase drug abuse they make criminals out of medical patients ala Rush Limbaugh.
That statement is beyond absurd. As a current addicted prescription user of oxycontin/vicodin, I am asking you, do you have any idea what doses are involved to cause hearing loss?
The WOD also corrupts police and the judiciary.
I know. I am not in favor of the current state of affairs, and I have said as much.
Nice to see where your priorities are when you defend the WOD.
I do not defend the WOD. I have stated several times on this thread that I believe the current federal incarnation to be malformed, and that it not only removes vital personal rights, but states rights also, and gives them unlawfully to the federal government. I am *not* for that, and require that those rights are removed from the federal government with all due haste.
But neither do I subscribe to your rather narrow "Do your own thing" view. There will be no way to remove the burgeoning welfare system without addressing the flotsam left in the wake of drug abuse. Nor will drug abuse be curtailed without reducing the welfare system. One creates the other.
Continuing as we are perpetuates everything that is wrong with BOTH the WOD and the Welfare State.
Prohibitionists always always always use hysteria to fuel fears that rarely, if ever come to pass.
Alcohol prohibition was such a great idea that it was repealed but reinstated in new forms.
There were fewer drug related problems before the WOD than we have now.
With the current system one must risk arrest to seek help with addiction. Some choice.
Or one can become ‘legally’ addicted, still be a highly funtioning citizen, but become a criminal in order to feed a habit initiated by medical treatments.
Addicts are known for tolerating doses that would sometimes kill first time users. It doesn’t surprise me at all that Rush’s doses were well beyond what any normal pain patient could tolerate.
Any reason hr should be a criminal for it?