It's time our government started treating these people instead of incarcerating them. Paying for at least 1-2 drug rehabs is cheaper than 25 years of jail for us taxpayers. Just my 2 cents (which is worth maybe 1 penny the way I feel).
On one hand, you need the justice system but on the other.... it's hard to believe.
We've got the Rockefeller Laws here in NY, which guarantee a life sentence with almost any drug crime. What do you expect? Drug arrests are big business. It's ridiculous, but it's like the laws they have on the books about having oral sex (in your bedroom) being illegal or transporting woman across the state line (don't remember which state, but it was originally an anti-prostitution law, and it's a still in effect).
If a political tries to fight these laws, they get branded "Anit-family" and "pro drug and crime". So these ridiculous laws still exist on the books, and destroy lives. I suppose you could put the blame for them squarely on us, the people. The average voter is so stupid and easily swayed by rhetoric, they get worked up and vote for the dumbest things. I swear, voting should be an earned right, that you have to take classes in government and law to earn.
are you serious.......i was under the impression that he had 10,000 in his possession. I guess i misunderstood, but that many......i dont get it unless it was 50 years of scripts?? do you know the story ??
I think he was talking about the one's who obtain it illegally .........
So long as you have legitimate scripts for what you have in your possession you are okay. In both examples I gave, the folks did not have legitimate scripts for the drugs.
Nauty - that is crazy isn't it! Rush wasn't exactly stupid, he had real scripts...he just had too many scripts...but in the eyes of blind lady justice at least he had scripts.
So my buddy buys 100 off the street, goes to jail for 25 years. Rush buys thousands of pills (just as unlawfully I might add) and he gets nothing. My buddy's crime is considered trafficking. Rush's crime is called "Doctor shopping." Even though they are exactly the same thing! So, what's the message for the public? For God sake's go doctor shopping!!! Don't buy off the street, or they'll lock you up and throw away the key because you are a "trafficker." What a f*cked up society we live in, huh?
Let me get this right. I also live in the sun shine state. I was under the care of a very well respected Pain Management Practice, she also has her DEA waiver to write for suboxone. I was being treated for 2 herniated disc's, and a terrible case of sciatica. All confirmed by multiple test from Mri to EGG for nerve damage which I have. She put me on 40mg oxycontin every 8 hrs and for breakthrough pain she prescribed 1-2 norco every 4-6hrs prn not to exceed 8 tablets a day. So I would go to pharmacy in Tampa that never questioned the scripts. As long as my insurance approved the claim they would fill them. So I would get in my car and drive 75 miles home with 120 oxycontin and 240 Norco. If I had been pulled over would there have been a problem---Noah
Thats amazing......I can murder my neighbor and get less time and probably no fine. Don't you love our justice system......I don't think Rush Limbaugh served one day for the 10,000 Oxy's in his possession.