Reply #17: Right--lawyer advertising must be pre-approved by the bar in this

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state. But, above and beyond that, a pattern has been noticed in which the bar commissioners bring more complaints against lawyers who advertise, than they do against other lawyers.

As for the pharmaceutical ads, I think it used to be against the law for them to advertise prescription drugs to the public. I don't know when the law changed (a good guess is, some time during the republican reign as the sole political power in Washington.) I did, however, begin to notice that all of a sudden, ads for prescriptions were all over the TeeVee. Ad nauseam! One stroke of a pen could rid us of this constant bombardment of harmful ads.

Here is our government paying out our money to "teach kids the dangers of misusing drugs" or the dangers of "drug dependence". Then, here is our same government allowing ads which clearly portray the drug-du-jour as the perfect answer to everyone's problems. The hypocrisy is so thick you can cut it with a knife.