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Posted on 07/08/2014 3:37:29 PM PDT by Wolfie
My, my. A radical liberal publication slamming a Kennedy as a corporate tool. How far we’ve come from the halcyon days of Camelot.
Everything is not about “Big ________”(fill-in-the-blank) guys.
The Nation obtained a confidential financial disclosure from the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids showing that the group’s largest donors include Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin, and Abbott Laboratories, maker of the opioid Vicodin. CADCA also counts Purdue Pharma as a major supporter, as well as Alkermes, the maker of a powerful and extremely controversial new painkiller called Zohydrol. The drug, which was released to the public in March, has sparked a nationwide protest, since Zohydrol is reportedly ten times stronger than OxyContin. Janssen Pharmaceutical, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that produces the painkiller Nucynta, and Pfizer, which manufactures several opioid products, are also CADCA sponsors. For corporate donors, CADCA offers a raft of partnership opportunities, including authorized use of the “CADCA logo for your company’s marketing, website, and advertising materials, etc.”
Like affirmative action today.
If Patty was still in congress he’d be all for legalizing it.
Big pharma (aka: the largest heroin and opiate distributors) vs. big marijuana and cocaine (aka: the mexican drug cartels) fighting over turf. Both sides are being subsidized by the federal government (aka: the world’s largest drug trafficker and dealer). Plenty of money to spread around to all parties involved. Nothing will change until the money dries up.
Is it not interesting;
When Teddy is screwing a subordinate and is caught when he lets her die in the backseat of his car, (a classic feminist example of the powerful male vs. helpless woman),
He deflects criticism by becoming feminism’s greatest protector.
When Pat gets caught driving while stoned out of his mind, he becomes a champion of the War On Drugs.
Wonder what Bobby was doing to blacks when he decided to champion the civil rights movement.
Hmmmmm! I can take Codiene, but I get an allergic reaction to Hydrocodiene.
Throw in antidepressants, and then do a political survey of all of the users - liberals versus conservatives.
Guess what?
What?!??
No? They speak the truth?
What next?
My friend's wife Jane, a mother with 2 kids, fell from a ladder while trying to get a kitten out of a tree. She broke her ankle badly, resulting in months of severe pain. She became addicted to a prescription opiate.
For a while she bought drugs off the street when her doctors would no longer prescribe the opiates. Then, she joined a daily methadone program.
For years she went daily to the clinic to get her dose. That became the only important thing in her life. She neglected her family such that they divorced her.
She went on this way for years until her bad health put her in the hospital. The doctors told her the Methadone was killing her, eating her liver. She quit the methadone for a while, but I understand she continued to abuse.
In all those years of methadone “treatment” the “doctors” never attempted to help Jane get off drugs. With all those daily doses they could have cut the dosage by a minuscule amount, substituting some placebo, such that in a time she would be drug free.
Note that these clinics receive Federal dollars, the amount determined by how many patients they treat.
Actually helping patients get off the methadone would be bad for the business. Duh.
The problem for the producers, sellers and the State is this. After the regulations are met, the price that will need to be charged will allow a cheaper industry of 'black market' pot on the market to really explode.
As a bought politician, it makes perfect sense if cannabis threatens alcohol, tobacco and opiate sales.
The prison industrial complex at work.
LOL. Approving wire taps of Martin Luther King and then spreading around the salacious information he got by listening to them.
Report from the front lines where “medicinal” pot is legal.
If you have a street analogous to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, you’ll see no change at all. Pot stores can’t afford the rent. So the deleterious affects don’t bother rich people and rich politicians at all.
But in your middle-class to lower-middle-class parts of town? Get ready for nice business districts to be destroyed. Because decent people won’t patronize businesses in the same strip malls or next door to pot collectives. Because jobless dirtbag “patients” hang out all day in the parking spaces, shoving microwave burritos in their gobs from the 7/11 that manages to hang on.
Get ready for the crime rate within a ten-mile radius of any pot store to skyrocket. And yeah, I’m talking about people stealing anything, including bikes off your front porch. Oh, I’m sure pot users aren’t to blame. They’re so non-violent.
Pot isn’t a gateway drug — it’s the gate. To loserville. Ever work with a pot smoker? They suck at their job because they’re slow of thought. And they stink, literally. Pot is evil, evil, evil, and any city that legalizes it, like mine did, will Rue. The. Day. Like my city is doing now.
Hooray. We all get to live in Amsterdam.
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