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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"War On Drugs.." is really War On Poor People.
I just saw a report on CNN about some women, (poor women, naturally,) spending months in jail for abusing oxycodone.
Two of the pills being on them would get them 60 days in a lockup with 10 other women.
Yet...
How much time did Rush the Fathead spend in jail for his abuse, even to the point of having his housekeeper go out and buy the pills?
We all know the answer to that.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)I Cant Dance
(42 posts)than good.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)criminalizing them forever.
They make money and gain power on all of it.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)raccoon
(31,111 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)and powder cocaine.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)I give Attorney General Holder props for that, and his boss.
it's down from 100:1 to 18:1. Still not scientifically defensible, but better than before.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)better, but not eliminated. The question is why haven't they been eliminated? Is it the profit demands of the prison industrial complex?
99Forever
(14,524 posts).. waged on We the People.
The time has come to fight back.
Peter cotton
(380 posts)If someone wants to destroy their life injecting themselves with God-knows-what, who am I to say no? It's their life to waste as they will.
kardonb
(777 posts)when used properly and discriminately , is a great help to people in severe pain . But taken only when the pain interferes with normal activities over an extended time . It CAN be addictive if you don't make the decision at the beginning to not become dependent on the drug.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)with heavy physical withdraw symptoms. It's not a matter of choosing to not be addicted, if it were that easy addiction would not be an issue. Addiction is a disease, like cancer, or diabetes, you can't just wish it away, you have to treat it and manage it.
Peter cotton
(380 posts)That fact that a drug is addictive is no reason to make it illegal.
IMHO, of course.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)I was taking exception to the person who stated "Just don't get addicted to it" things just don't work that way.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)I remember a statistic I read that over 70% of people in prison were below the poverty line before they were arrested.
msongs
(67,420 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)The more money you have, the better lawyers you can afford, and the better lawyers you have, the more likely you are to get the results you want.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Pipes money to dark Gov. entities.
IMO
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)Those idiot wannabe Panthers in Miami the FBI talked into trying to make a "dirty bomb" leap to mind. Instead of tracking down, say, Saudi financiers, we typically pursue and imprison some scruffy, psychologically marginal person to hold up as the Bogey Man.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I mean, we saw the tremendous failure Ronald and Nancy Reagan had with their scholarly advice on illegal drugs. So like all good Republicans, the idea was embraced even as it bloomed into a massive waste of time and money and manpower. Republicans like to waste time and money. They love counterproductive policies.