On 27 Feb 2004 13:18:43 -0800, [email hidden] (Rick Warner)
mumbled incoherently:
Quoted message said:Terry Morse <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<tmorse-
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Quoted message said:Ken said:Aw, leave the guy alone. He is busy facing what no addict in the US has ever faced - a
prosecutor's office which is determined to give full immunity to drug dealers in order to
prosecute one pain killer addict. I wonder why.
Why? Because he's a celebrity, and ambitious prosecutors love celebrity cases.
Or, perhaps, they listened to Rush of the past who insisted that *all* drug users/abusers should be
imprisoned.
Rush Limbaugh Ponders Legal Drug Market
LEGALIZATION March-April 1998
On March 12, in response to a caller who asked why the Clinton Administration was not fighting
illegal drugs with the same effort being used to fight the tobacco industry, conservative talk show
host Rush Limbaugh responded with some support of a legalized, regulated drug market (The Rush
Limbaugh Radio Show, March 12, 1998).
Remarks of Rush Limbaugh on the March 12 show transcribed by the Media Awareness Project:
"[Drug] interdiction doesn't work and the effort to convince people not to do it really doesn't
work. In fact, with young people it may even entice them more ...
Based on the reality of how we're going after cigarette smokers, the thing that we cannot do in
the drug fight right now is regulate because it's illegal. Drugs are against the law and so the
manufacturers are illegal. They're not even on shore; they're down there in Colombia and the
Cali Cartel and they're working to poison the brains and minds of the future of America. And so
what we do is to try to keep those drugs from getting in. And I agree with you that it's a half
baked effort ...
It seems to me that what is missing in the drug fight is legalization. If we want to go after
drugs with the same fervor and intensity with which we go after cigarettes, let's legalize
drugs. Legalize the manufacture of drugs. License the Cali Cartel. Make them tax payers and then
sue them. Sue them left and right and then get control of the price and generate tax revenue
from it. Raise the price sky high and fund all sorts of other wonderful social programs.
Because it seems to me, flippant as though it may sound to you, that what gives us the power to
do what we're doing, what gives the government the power to do what it is doing, state and
federal, in cigarettes, is that it's a legal substance regulated by the federal government. And
they don't have any such power and control over drugs because it's illegal. So let's legalize
them and then go after them the same way ...
You have to understand that there's not a big morality play going on here with cigarettes. All
there is in the minds of the citizens, they think it's all about morality and our kids, but it's
about money. Look at the lawyers down in Florida. They had a contract 25% of whatever they could
collect. Well that would mean that some lawyers are going to make $200 million. The purpose of
all this was to help our kids and so forth. The lawyers just want money. Everybody wants their
cut -- Clinton, Congress, the States all want their cut. It's all about money.
That's why I'm telling you. You may think my statement here flippant but you asked why aren't we
going after drugs as fervently as we're going after cigarettes. I agree with [stopping] cocaine,
marijuana, uh, well, cocaine, crack, LSD, heroin, all those you can [but] I don't know of
anybody who overdosed on cigarettes. I do know that people have burned their houses down but I
don't know anybody who said I'm going to smoke cigarettes until I die and then pulled it off
inside of 12 hours. I do know people who've overdosed on drugs and know of them. You talk about
death and the ruined lives -- heroin addiction is far more debilitating that tobacco addiction.
Let's be honest about it. Tobacco addiction is a 30-year death. Heroin addiction is instant
death and yet we're not going after this stuff with the same moral fervor that we are. Why?
Because we're not going after cigarettes with a moral fervor either; we're going after
cigarettes because of money.
Now if you want to go after drugs on the same basis you've got to make it a target for money and
the only way that I can think of to do that is either [let] the government become the pimp and
sell the stuff, make it prescription with the government as the pharmacist; or you legalize
drugs, let them come into the country, get a whole bunch of generations of people using these
things and then decide some years later that 'This is terrible. We must stop this. This is
horrible. Those drug manufacturers have lied to us about the safety of the product. They said
they we're going to control the amounts and they haven't. We're suing them.' And then go and get
some money from the Cali drug cartel legally."
Ken (NY) Chairman, Department Of Redundancy Department
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